Amazon should remove these from the site. Yes, half of ours have been out in the weather year-round and havent rusted, degraded, discolored or anything. The ropes have a bungee cord inside with and polypropylene braided rope outside, and also are triple stitch on both end of loop for reinforcement for solidness and durability, this is particularly designed to be resistant to chafing, mildew, molding and extreme exposure to sunlight. will make a great birthday present for my fiancée. My heel (as you can see) is very close to the edge, this isn?t really a big issue but I prefer a little more space so it doesn?t look as if I?m forcing my feet into the shoe. Easy to mount. Let me share this before i go into greater detail. I hope one day, when people look back they will say, ?I can?t believe they allowed this type of movie back then! this is a good buy***READ UPDATE IF YOUR SAMSUNG KEEPS DISCONNECTING THESE *****I noticed that my samsung s21 keeps disconnecting these after a bit of inactivity. Im hearing layers of sound that have previously been buried.