Review on Elastic Shoelaces System: Xpand No-Tie Laces - Fits Adults And Kids Shoes Of Any Size by Eddie Orrell

After all the hoopla of trying to string this lace just right into the shoe, the tubing at the end of the lace came off! I tried wetting the end of the lace, and even tried using a pin to lace it through. At first when the end tibe came off, I wasn't too worried because we cut the end off at the end, anyway. Lacing worked for a while, however, toward the top of the Nike shoe, the holes are at an angle due to the shoe style. I COULD NOT WHATSOEVER string that lace through. 😡I wanted to contact the store to inform them of the situation, but it was difficult finding their contact info. I submitted an exchange instead of a return since I have already completed lacing and cutting one shoe. It is frustrating!The lacing process takes some time on a shoe like this, so to have to take even more time because of a poorly made product is very irritating.👉I was going to give instructions on how to lace before this issue occurred:•My suggestion is to lace OVER instead of under(see photo).•I also took a photo of the plastic "stopper" and which way it worked best for us. My son wears a size 4.5 shoe, so I needed to use the smaller stoppers provided.• Maybe because of the shoe style, we needed to leave the lacing a bit looser to slip on his foot(see first full shoe photo of it completed and being too tight. Last shoe photo is the tightness we needed). I watched a helpful video review that showed how to lace these. He suggested lacing tighter since the laces stretch. This did not work for us, and I had to loosen EVERYTHING up. When you see the Nike shoe style, you will understand why this is all becoming a big pain- especially when you add in a defective product!I hope this works well- once we are actually able to FINISH 😠