my raybans

[deejayshakur]

apparently luxottica group (which owns rayban, revo, killer loop, arnette, lenscrafters, sunglass hut, etc.) has 7 facilities that manufacture their sunglasses--6 in italy and 1 in china. so i go into sunglass hut today, lay down $120 on a pair of raybans (polarized too, mind you) and go home to find that heinous 'made in china' stamp of inferiority. harsh words for somebody's who's chinese, right?

i guess i can't justify spending over $100 on a pair of sunglasses made in a country notorious for exploiting underage workers and replicating name-brand products. geez, i can't justify spending 100 US dollars on anything from china.

maybe i'm overreacting...as long as rayban covers their products with the same warranty, i should be satisfied right. then again, who's to say that anything you buy, be it something 'made in italy' or 'made in japan', was truly made in that country? the chinese make some damn good replicas. how much of the stuff that we own was really made in the country in which it says it was?

 

[Goosemaster]

odd end of 1/6 is a bitch

 

[LS20]

return it and get another pair

or buy Oakleys

 

[deejayshakur]

yea oakleys are too sporty for me. i was goin for a pair of rimless.

 

[r6ashih]

How do you know that your raybans were made by underage workers?

 

[notfred]

Coincidentally, that's where the almost identical looking fake ray-bans you could have bought for $9.99 were made.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: notfred
Coincidentally, that's where the almost identical looking fake ray-bans you could have bought for $9.99 were made.

Probably in the same factory, too.

 

[Thegonagle]

Damn, how I wish it had been my idea to charge $120 for a something with a total cost of $5 or so, and then to sell it in my own retail stores to boot. That's a freaking phenominal mark-up, made all the sweeter by cutting out the middle-man.

 

[Imdmn04]

Under-aged chinese kid, or illegal mexicans working in u.s. , same quality.