It’s easy enough to buy some Fabreeze with all the money saved! 
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Judging by Faceboke sites it seems quite common folk buying cycling shoes on line and finding they are a wrong fit and subsequently flogging them.
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I need wide shoes but only have 2 in my rotation and keep them a very long time. When it is time to buy new ones I always wait for a sale or use the 15% specialized coupons.
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My latest road shoes are Sidi wire (I’ve actually had them a few years or more), I wouldn’t have bought them at the OP but with Wire II coming out they were massively reduced.
My mtb shoes aren’t particularly dear (Louis Garneau) but again I wouldn’t have paid full price for them which IIRC was claimed to be about two thirds of the OP of the sidis.
I tried to use a 15% specialized coupon on S-works 7 shoes last week. It was for signing up for emails. They rejected it with a message that S-works is excluded. You have a different coupon?
Have used that coupon you are talking about a few times. Maybe something changed but I would email their support to ask. They are pretty responsive.
Data point on just how personal shoes can be - I’m in the market for new road cycling shoes, and I tried on all three different Specialized models (S-Works Road, S-Works Ares, and S-Work Vent) all in 42, 42.5, and 43. None of them fit me well. The lasts for all three are slightly different, and they all had different problems / places where they pinched my feet.
The S-Works Road were actually the most annoying. For some reason, there was one spot in all three sizes that dug into the top of my left big toe. Feeling the inside of the shoe didn’t find anything weird, or the cause of this rubbing. But it was in the same spot in all three sizes.
How wide is wide?
Sidi mega, shimano etc all to narrow for me.
medium wide… I had some lake shoes before and while they were nice they were a little too wide and honestly bulky. eventually I will check out the sidi ones
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I just ordered these for my non-epic run o’the mill average gravel/off road adventures.
Thinking of going back to SPD’s from Egg Beaters…Mo money. Mo money. Mo money!
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I ended up getting a set of these (women’s model) in 42. They are a little too long I think, and I could probably wear the men’s 41s. It took some digging but I finally figured out the difference from Shimano’s site (a matter of 1-3mm difference in various areas of the shoe, with the men’s trending wider). I have a 90mm last, but my toes are a little on the longer side and I wear barefoot shoes a lot so my feet spread out.
Anyway, they are pretty comfortable and I enjoy them for gravel. They give me a road shoe weight and general feel with the ability to walk around a little bit. At first they were giving me the same hotspot as my previous shoes (Giro Empire VR90s) but once I figured out how tight to get the Boas and wearing slightly thicker socks, I’ve been golden. I am going to keep an eye out for the men’s 41s on the used market so I can have a shoe for summer and thinner socks and one for winter with thicker socks.
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The specialised BG stuff seems to work for me in shoes - though I do need really wide ones, I’m tempted by some of these knitted shoes like Giro Empires. Lakes were good fit but gave me calf cramps when I had a pair several years ago - though that might be fixable with insoles but I didn’t know then.