I just received these skates and opened the package to make sure the skates were okay before giving them to my daughter Christmas morning. Much to my surprise, on the soles of these skates, the rubber is SEVERELY discolored (brownish-yellow), to the point they look like they are 20 years old. Them being jammed into the box and bent didn't really help them look very good either. Needless to say these skates are going back tomorrow...not wasting my time ordering another pair when there obviously is not much quality control at amazon.