I just had my visa card tapped in this store for 8÷7÷13 $ 510.11 and the clerk didn’t even check to see if the person buying the items was the actual person on the card!!! That sucks that you are more concerned about a big sale than if the person making such a purchase is who they claim to be! Thank God for credit card fraud alert. My card alert service was able to correct this problem and restore the overcharged credit. If you don’t have Legal protection you are leaving yourself open for all types of fraud and identity theft. Go here to check out how you can protect yourself, your business, and your family: .
Julia L.
Place rating: 2 Melbourne, Australia
I can’t help but make trip down to this outlet just on the off chance that there might be something impressive left behind and that I might be pleasantly surprised… Unfortunately this is never the case so don’t be deceived. It really is the offcuts that un-loved pair of awkward looking boots, not quite fashionable enough to make the cut… I have found better purchases in store witth current stock on sale, at DFO spencer street and the CBD store.
Kate D.
Place rating: 2 Melbourne, Australia
The Tony Bianco Factory Outlet seems to be where all the unbought bad shoes go to die. A retirement home for the shoes, if you will. Tony Bianco are capable of making nice shoes, but this place doesn’t necessarily sell that because it’s just the left over stock. You imagine these shoes on vomiting weekend city visitors, right after they’ve taken them off and are running down the street with them in-hand screaming at a now ex-boyfriend of whom they’ll take back the next day, only to continue the vicious cycle of never thinking they were good enough to deserve better. Once again, let me re-establish that Tony Bianco can make nice shoes. It’s just that these ones in the factory outlet, aren’t really hitting that high standard. Also, I’m very VERY wary of a place that is playing the Black Eyed Peas«I’ve got a feeling». Judge me, go on, I don’t care. That song, by now, if you’re not sick of it, BYNOW, you’re leaning towards having a brain the size of the name of that band. It hasn’t even gotten to the point where you can handle hearing it again because you’ve now got some kind of nostalgia attached to it. Too soon, way too soon. Kesha’s new single is better than that song… I digress. Look, you need some shoes to grab and hit the top 40 clubs with, come here, they will serve you quite happily and you’ll be smiling in a new pair of shoes.
Arabella G.
Place rating: 4 Melbourne, Australia
Its website may refer to the Tony Bianco girl as ‘a well-blended mix of street smart modernist, epitomizing cool’ but this loyal if jaded customer would simply sum up the Australian footwear label’s offerings in two words: nice shoes. Slightly effusive marketing babble aside, Tony Bianco’s Smith Street branch is pretty awesome. An outlet shop — like many of the boutiques at this end of Smith Street — absolutely packed to the rafters with Tony Bianco’s rather fine footwear, I’ve found more than a couple of pairs of gems here. Tony Bianco excels at making modern shoes out of luxe materials in fashionable but classic styles and shapes. My favourites are Bianco’s more androgynous lace-up wedge heels and the like and it’s not uncommon to find a pair of heels here for around the $ 30 mark. A definite destination for the cash-strapped but shoe loving gal.