More on this very frustrating saga...
After numerous assurances from the seller that he had the V2.1 shoe... I think he had no clue what he actually had.
This is the shoe on his product page:
It has the V3 fabric and the slimmed toe box.
And here is the page he sent me to see the shoes he was selling:
So I ask for photos of the shoes he's sending me and he sends this today:
I explain that that is not the right shoe, and not to send it.
I could be wrong, but this appears to me to be the V2RC shoe with the remote control, based on the color of green on the ankle. I also think in the first photo the controller may be slightly visible.
He goes on to say that this is the $220 shoe, but then completely stops responding.
I'm not interested in having this version of the shoe at all. And if I were good with it, I would have bought it for cheaper. He was charging $208 for the shoe he was advertising, but I've seen those remote control shoes for less than that.
DHgate seems like they'll let me dispute, but I won't know for sure until it all goes down. They tell me I can't dispute for 5 days.
What a headache! My excitement is fading.