being of inexperience, I would hesitate to purchase a pair of fins on-line,without having tried on the same size and brand in a pool first. Buying comfortably-fitting shoes is a pain the neck and I imagine buying fins without trying them on and testing---for both comfort of fit and characteristics of use---would be a real hit and miss proposition. How much cheaper would mail-order fins be vs. 'local' store? For ten or twenty dollars, I'd balance the cost against the nuisance of finding they don't fit, re-packing and re-mailing them and then trying the whole process again. A hassle, it seems. On the other hand, if I'd tried a pair, liked them and then KNEW what I wanted to get, perhaps the dollars (or pounds or lira or kopek or whatever) would be enough incentive to try it.
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