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Shady Rays sunglasses. You are now forewarned!

CigarStone

CigarStone

For once, knowledge is making me poor!
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These guys are somewhere between scam artists and horrible business people.

  1. They have a million different 50% off codes but they don't usually work!
  2. I bought a pair using their "july4th" 50% code and they were like looking directly at the sun.
  3. They do not answer their customer service lines. Chat worked once and never again. And if you leave an email, you will probably get an automated response, I could not speak to anyone to help me choose a better pair of glasses.
  4. After about 15 emails, and some colorful language, they told me to return them for a pair which did not have mirrored lenses.
  5. When I tried to return them, their system tried to charge me $13 for the same glasses, with different lenses, which were the same price on the web site.
  6. Come to find out that my son has them and the coating on the stems wore off immediately and leaves black marks on the sides of his face.
 
CigarStone said:
These guys are somewhere between scam artists and horrible business people.

  1. They have a million different 50% off codes but they don't usually work!
  2. I bought a pair using their "july4th" 50% code and they were like looking directly at the sun.
  3. They do not answer their customer service lines. Chat worked once and never again. And if you leave an email, you will probably get an automated response, I could not speak to anyone to help me choose a better pair of glasses.
  4. After about 15 emails, and some colorful language, they told me to return them for a pair which did not have mirrored lenses.
  5. When I tried to return them, their system tried to charge me $13 for the same glasses, with different lenses, which were the same price on the web site.
  6. Come to find out that my son has them and the coating on the stems wore off immediately and leaves black marks on the sides of his face.
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You are mad at a lot of companies today
IngloriousBasterd said:
Yeah I’m an Oakley fan boy. Never had a bad pair
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This!
 
I have a slight prescription in my left eye so I just use it for Oakleys. Best sunglasses I have found. And there’s a company that sells quality replacement lenses for when the frames are still in good shape. Need to find that company and buy some because I have 2 other frames with scratched lenses
 
I stopped buying expensive sunglasses about 20 years ago. I bought a brand new pair of Oakley's for a river trip. Everything was fine when we came upon our first decent size rapids. I thought okay I have seen this before I am not losing my new glasses, so I take them off and grab ahold of them right before we enter the rough part. Sure enough I get turned backwards in my tube and flip over at the bottom section. No big deal, I thought, I go to put my glasses back on and find that all I have is the two side brackets in my hand, the lens are long gone. FUCK ME! last $200 glasses I ever bought. From that point on it has been $10 aviators from anywhere that sells them.
 
I don't trust anything that advertises on Facebook.

As for sunglasses, I guess I'm in the minority here. My sunglasses usually last me for years, even with daily wear. I tend to take care of my things, and usually get to the point where I'm forced by the family to update what I have for something new. I've been wearing the same pair of Wiley X shades since we first moved here in 2019. I'd still be wearing my 12-year-old pair of Wileys if the sulfer in the air at Volcano on the Big Island didn't start delaminating the UV coating on the lenses. Hell, I've been wearing the same G-Shock watch for 14 years.
 
kann said:
I don't trust anything that advertises on Facebook.

As for sunglasses, I guess I'm in the minority here. My sunglasses usually last me for years, even with daily wear. I tend to take care of my things, and usually get to the point where I'm forced by the family to update what I have for something new. I've been wearing the same pair of Wiley X shades since we first moved here in 2019. I'd still be wearing my 12-year-old pair of Wileys if the sulfer in the air at Volcano on the Big Island didn't start delaminating the UV coating on the lenses. Hell, I've been wearing the same G-Shock watch for 14 years.
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100%, I take care of my things also and my sunglasses last me 4-5 years.
 
I have two pair my wife one pair and my son one pair. We like them and have not had any trouble with discount codes or getting replacements when we lose them. I got them all with the the 50% off deals.
 
kann said:
I don't trust anything that advertises on Facebook.
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A lot of company’s big and small are using social media. I think that using our spidy senses are the best bet when sniffing out the sketchy stuff.
 
kann said:
I don't trust anything that advertises on Facebook.

As for sunglasses, I guess I'm in the minority here. My sunglasses usually last me for years, even with daily wear. I tend to take care of my things, and usually get to the point where I'm forced by the family to update what I have for something new. I've been wearing the same pair of Wiley X shades since we first moved here in 2019. I'd still be wearing my 12-year-old pair of Wileys if the sulfer in the air at Volcano on the Big Island didn't start delaminating the UV coating on the lenses. Hell, I've been wearing the same G-Shock watch for 14 years.
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Yeah I have 3 pairs of Oakleys over the last 15 years and still have all 3 pairs I just need to get some lenses for the other 2 pair because even small scratches bug me
 
smellysell said:
I've tried most and landed on Maui Jim. For cheap, Goodr are tough to beat.
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I stumbled into a used pair of Maui Jim Stingrays, loved them (didn't fit the mellon head of the previous owner, practically new).

I went to the eye doctor to get some trash out of my eye and saw they were a Maui Jim dealer, so I got a prescription pair of Stingrays for driving. Passed my driving eye exam without correction, but I can read signs and stuff a lot farther off with the prescription glasses.

As for longevity, the sunglasses I wear at work are some gas station XGames that I've had about 15 years.
 
I won't buy anything made by Luxxotica if possible. They get you all the way from the doctor, the clinic, the product, to the insurance. Start to finish with average markups at about 1,000%!

From Wiki:

The company has been criticised for the high price of its brand-name glasses, such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, and several others. A 2012 60 Minutes segment focused on whether the company's extensive holdings in the industry were used to keep prices high. Luxottica owns not only a large portfolio of brands (over a dozen[45]) such as Ray-Ban and Oakley but also retailers such as Sunglass Hut, Lenscrafters and Oliver Peoples, the optical departments at Target and Sears, as well as key eye insurance groups including the second largest glasses insurance firm in the US, EyeMed.
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It has been accused of operating a complete monopoly on the optical industry and overcharging for its products; for example, temporarily dropping then-competitor Oakley from its frame design list, then, when the company stock crashed, purchasing the company, then increasing the prices of its Ray-Ban sunglasses. In addition, it has been argued that, by owning the vision insurance company EyeMed, it also controls part of the buyers' market as well.[43]
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In 2019, LensCrafters founder E. Dean Butler spoke to the Los Angeles Times, admitting that Luxottica's dominance of the eyewear industry had resulted in price markups of nearly 1,000%. In the interview, Butler noted "You can get amazingly good frames, with a Warby Parker level of quality, for $4 to $8. For $15, you can get designer-quality frames, like what you’d get from Prada." When told that some eyeglasses cost as much as $800 in the United States, Butler remarked, "I know. It’s ridiculous. It’s a complete rip-off." [49][50][51]
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I'm with Aaron.. give me the $15 gas station UVA/UVB specs anyday.
 
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