Campus Shoe Repair

recently took 2 pairs to have the heels changed and polished. The service was great and friendly and I am very happy with their work. will come back

Campus Shoe Repair is the BEST! I have been taking all my shoes to them for over 10 years and they always come back perfect. I’ve had my shoes resoled, boots tapered and shortened, dyed, etc. Vick is knowledgeable, professional, friendly and always has the right answers to your shoe issues. Seriously, I would never take my shoes anywhere else. They are worth every penny. Thank you, Vick!

I brought my shoes here to get repaired (heel replaced, shoes polished, with heel protectors added). I think they did a good job, and the repair was done in about 3 days. I felt like the total price for everything was a bit much, but it is probably what is to be expected in Westwood. I’d probably shop around and compare prices before going back to Campus Shoe Repair, but they did a great job!

Love this place. Victor is great! I always get my shoes fixed here and I’m always extremely happy with the results.

Only go here if you want him to steal your items and say he lost them during «remodel» lol really your business is doing that bad that you have to steal the shoes and purses? Were they that nice ?
I of course do not recommend after that experience — he is not honest

I put a pair of 550 $ Campanile black dress shoes (in case you never heard of them, they are the factory company that makes shoes for Canali) here to let them condition and polish for me, for I’m not expert on leather caring and don’t wanna ruin this pair of fairly expensive shoes. Took me 15 $ and 3 days of waiting, that’s fine. However, when I brought my shoes back to my apartment and put them under direct light, I can clearly see the marks of the cream that are not supposed to be there. And it seems like they are not using black cream but some sort of grayish-​brown-​black cream. Disappointed.

Brought my Gucci bag in for some repairs and they did a great job. The owner was very kind and gave me a little discount for the repair. I’m coming back to change the bottom of my Loubs to the rubber. I finally found a shoe and bag Dr.!! :D I would definitely recommend this place and don’t believe the bad reviews. I took my chances here despite of the reviews and I liked it! ;)

Campus Shoe Repair is the best. I have been going to them for 15 years and they are truly experts. Even when I lived in San Diego always ship my shoes to them. I wouldn’t trust anyone with my Jimmy Choo’s, Louboutins, and Gucci but Campus Shoes Repair! Vicken is the best!!!

Fast and efficient, with very high quality work, but you pay for it. I was very impresed with the work they did, how quickly they did it, and how well it was done. I have them at three stars due to the cost, which I admit I think is way too high. Based on having similar repairs done elsewhere on other shoes, I would say the price here is about 33% more than other places (but then again, to be fair, they are paying Westwood rents so you pay for the convenience).

Great place, helped me out with punching holes in my belt free of charge. Excellent service, coming here for now on.

I brought a fairly inexpensive leather messenger bag in here to repair the strap that had come unstitched, rendering the bag completely useless. I brought it in on a Thursday right before closing and was told that it would be ready for pick up the following Tuesday. It was not the most courteous customer service I’d ever received — I don’t believe more than a few words were exchanged. Whatever, that’s fine — just fix my bag. I was quoted $ 35 for the repair, which seemed reasonably fair but did not strike me as a particularly fantastic deal for, essentially, running the thing through a sewing machine.
Fast forward to the following Tuesday: I swing by in the morning and am told that the bag isn’t ready yet and to come back in an hour since they were just getting started on it. Why did it sit there for two entire business days? $ 35 for an hour’s worth of work? That doesn’t strike me as particularly fair. I came back in the mid afternoon and the bag was as good as new, which, I suppose, is the important thing here.
I’m not over the moon about this place. The relatively unfriendly person I assume to be the owner along with the perhaps marginally above average prices and bizarre turnaround time while doing quality work earns this middle-​of-​the-​road rating. I would most likely go back for future work mainly due to its proximity to UCLA.

The mixed reviews here are insane, in my book.
I have a very expensive pair of sandals which suffered a broken strap. Took them into Campus Shoe Repair on the advice of a friend. I wasn’t expecting much and was pleasantly surprised when I received them back looking like new. Not only was it impossible to see the shoes had been repaired, they had reconditioned both shoes to look perfect!
Not cheap. Not expensive. Fairly priced.
Great experience overall. Will be back if I need their services again!

I take all my nice shoes here to get the rubberized soles put on. They do a good job and has a quick turnaround. But the service is quite pricey. $ 30 for the soles and the labor per pair. Hence… only my really expensive shoes otherwise it’s not worth it.

I had my boots sent out for repair by Nordstrom to Campus Shoe Repair. Four days later I received my boots back and it was the shoddiest work I have ever seen in my life. Instead of replacing the heel they painted it black, and the pain is already wiping away. What a crappy job. How embarrassing for both companies.

I would never ever recommend this place to anyone.
Two of my shoes had their heels falling off so I brought it in and he quoted me at 30 bucks for each show.
Let me tell you about these shoes…
One is from Taiwan for ~15 bucks, one is from Kaitlyn for about 30– 40.
So yes, he quoted me at a price higher than how much the shoes cost. And I didn’t want to make a scene or come home empty handed, so I just gave him one pair to work on.
It doesn’t and shouldn’t cost 30 bucks to repair a heel on a boot that is the same price and it doesn’t take 3 days either.
I took one for the team and had this experience so you don’t have to.
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My rating scale:
1 star: I would actively encourage my friends never ever to come here. This business is a menace to society.
2 star: This business takes up space, then again. something had to.
3 star: I probably won’t come back. But I can understand if some people like this place
4 star: I would come back and recommend this to my friends.
5 star: I will become the poster child for this business. If my friend were visiting me from out of town, I would take him/​her here.

Meh.
I got a super sweet deal on a new pair of Jeffrey Campbell heels because the pin was missing on one of the buckles. The Campus Shoe Repair gave put a new pin on the buckle as well as dirt/​grease on my brand new beauties :(
When I was both picking up and dropping off my shoes, I had to wait a considerable amount of time for the attendant to acknowledge me even though I know that he saw me enter the shop because we made eye contact as I entered.
I also thought that $ 10 was a little steep for one little ½ cm piece of wire.

These guys are experts!

I recently bought a GUCCI belt and since the sizes are EU (measured in cm), I wanted to get it resized to fit me properly. I went on google looking «how to resize a belt» or «how to drill a hole» but I was scared since it’s a brand new belt. Then i saw a lot of ppl say to go to a shoe repair place (since they deal with leather).
SO I called Campus Shoe Repair since they are so close to UCLA. After asking how much it would cost to add 2 holes to my brand new belt, I got this reply:
NO COST.
I was so shocked, I didnt know if he was being serious. I asked again just to make sure. After he confirmed his offer, I hopped into my car and went to the shop right away. He added 2 holes in a few seconds and I was shocked to see him REALLY NOT CHARGE ME! Most places ask for $ 5 – 10, and he was so friendly and made it professional too (its a GUCCI belt).
WILL DEFINITELY COME HERE AGAIN FOR ALL MY LEATHER/​SHOE problems.
Price: $ 0
Turnaround time: 1 minute
Thanks! Definitely 5 stars!

This place has been a staple of Westwood Village… Let me tell you why I think this place is definitely my go to place for any kind of shoe/​repair…
The Mission: To fix a broken ass strap off a Kate Spade bag
The service: The guy who helped me out was friendly. Friendly as you can be seein’ as how someone is just coming in to repair a broken strap on a Kate Spade bag.
Price: 19 bucks… I could have haggled it. But didn’t.
Turnaround time: About 4 – 5 days
*The bag was pretty dirty and he offered to steam clean it for me but he would then charge me about 65 dollars which I thought was utterly ridiculous. I looked at some in store cleaners which are sold separately and thought to myself that I could easily go to Target and buy some stuff and use some elbow grease and then VOILA!!! A BRAND NEW BAG!
**Overall, pleased with the actual finished product. I actually can’t think of a lot of places in the area that can do that kind of work. Then again I thought of this place off the top of my head as opposed to Unilocalin’ it. It’s good for UCLA college students or neighbors around the Westwood Village Area.
Tell them your boy JY sent you.

I have been using cobblers, like Campus Show Repair, for years in San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, and now Los Angeles. In fact here in LA I’ve used 2 other shoe repair places that have been as expensive as Campus Shoe Repair and have been a complete waste of money.
Case in point, I brought a pair of leather Comme des Garcons flip-​flops in which the strap that fits between your first and second toes broke, and a pair of leather Aketohn sandals in which the layered leather soles separated and fell apart. Together these 2 sandals cost about $ 500.
I brought both pairs to 2 other repair shops in and around Westwood, and both said that the flip-​flops were unrepairable, and one of the stores said I should contact Aketohn in Italy (!) and have them repair the sandals (which I bought in 2001 — so, fat chance of that). The other shop offered to repair the Aketohn sandals for $ 40, and did so by essentially smearing a bunch of glue between the layers of the sole that had separated — this shoddy repair job lasted 2 wears.
When I brought them to Campus Shoe repair they said the flip-​flops were easily repairable, and said they would just «rebuild» the sandals, but it would take a week or 2. They charged $ 40 to rebuild the sandals and another $ 40 to repair the one broken flip-​flop and reinforce the other flip-​flop that had not yet broken. I’ve been wearing both for the past several months and they did an amazing job.
In response to a previous review, no, they did not automatically shine either pair, but frankly given the vastly superior quality of their workmanship who cares?