I have both fake and real(in the eye jackets) I see no difrents between the two. They are the same size and everthing. I am not sure where you guy are getting your fake from,but like i said these are phat and my vision is still good. they even have the metal oakley ring on the side just like the brand new style!
Since when have Oakleys cost $250...unless your getting the X metals and those are too heavy to wear. I got my pair of A-wires on my Honymoon last summer for like $130. They're a great pair of glasses and cost less than my last Hard Drive or Video card for that matter.
I have a real pair of Oakley's "eye jackets" and as far as that particular model is concerned, it plain sucks. Twice, the plastic frame has broken off on me and all I did was take the glasses off (my face). I returned the first pair and Oakley sent me a new pair which broke again at the same spot! It's obviously, to me, a design defect.
Anyone who has a pair can pull the rubber grips to one side and notice how thin and flimsy that part is. Again, I'm not pounding Oakley's entire line, just the eye jackets. Right now, I'm wearing a cheap $5 special from my local mall and it looks fine and as long as it keeps 'em "bad" rays out then I'm cool. I'm gonna send my eye jackets back to Oakley, again, and see what they tell me. But I don't expect them to replace it since it's past the year warranty. For the price though they should take care of their customers cause this customer is looking for real sunglasses...as soon as I find one... Revo? Serengeti? I'm just sick of the marketing hype and paying for it. $90 for plastic?!?! What the h@ll was I thinking?!
Anyone who has a pair can pull the rubber grips to one side and notice how thin and flimsy that part is. Again, I'm not pounding Oakley's entire line, just the eye jackets. Right now, I'm wearing a cheap $5 special from my local mall and it looks fine and as long as it keeps 'em "bad" rays out then I'm cool. I'm gonna send my eye jackets back to Oakley, again, and see what they tell me. But I don't expect them to replace it since it's past the year warranty. For the price though they should take care of their customers cause this customer is looking for real sunglasses...as soon as I find one... Revo? Serengeti? I'm just sick of the marketing hype and paying for it. $90 for plastic?!?! What the h@ll was I thinking?!
I own the real deal juliets and i would never buy anything else. I know they're hella expensive (I'm a college student)...but i was screwing around on an asphalt parking lot and the juliets flew off my face and skidded on the asphalt. I was screaming like no other. But guess what?! NO scratches AT ALL on the lens. How the weight is distributed... it hit the nose area and the damage was only a few minor scratches. TITANIUM baby!! So in other words...stick to the real deal.
most oakleys cost around $130, tack on another $50 for polarized lenses. After that you get the high end juliets, romeos, etc for the $250 price tag. most of what you're paying for is the frame, you can buy replacement lenses for about $40. so if anything, i'd prefer the lenses to be scratched then the frames- you can swap the lenses for new ones relatively cheap, but not the frames.
the eye jackets are meant to be durable and for sports, which is why the earpieces pop off from the main frame so often. you can snap them back in without a problem. i remember i was at a friend's house watching a movie and a bunch of us were on the ground, he had his eye jackets next to him. i got up to get a soda and heard a huge *SNAP*, as you can imagine, visions of a $150 hole in my wallet appeared. but he just grabbed them and said oh don't worry, and popped them right back in. since then i've used them for the slopes, and any sport that might wear them in any real way. i'd prefer them to snap out like that, if they didn't then the entire frame would be screwed and i'd be out quite a chunk of change.
that's one of the reasons i don't use wires when i'm playing basketball, anything on the pavement, etc. their strucutre bends and it really sucks when that happens. you can usually bend them back if it's a slight crook, but i'd rather not have my frames bent around at all.
the eye jackets are meant to be durable and for sports, which is why the earpieces pop off from the main frame so often. you can snap them back in without a problem. i remember i was at a friend's house watching a movie and a bunch of us were on the ground, he had his eye jackets next to him. i got up to get a soda and heard a huge *SNAP*, as you can imagine, visions of a $150 hole in my wallet appeared. but he just grabbed them and said oh don't worry, and popped them right back in. since then i've used them for the slopes, and any sport that might wear them in any real way. i'd prefer them to snap out like that, if they didn't then the entire frame would be screwed and i'd be out quite a chunk of change.
that's one of the reasons i don't use wires when i'm playing basketball, anything on the pavement, etc. their strucutre bends and it really sucks when that happens. you can usually bend them back if it's a slight crook, but i'd rather not have my frames bent around at all.
Oakley sunglass copies = Fakeley sunglasses
I cannot justify spending $100.00-300.00 on sunglasses! Sorry.
I cannot justify spending $100.00-300.00 on sunglasses! Sorry.
The question to all people not willing to pay the originals is why do you guys buy the fakes?
Go to the grocery store and get some without the brand marked on them.
You don't want to pay, but you still wanna look like you did?
Don't get it. I pay for brands as it always goes in hand with quality (almost) and it gives you the needed kick - you work your ass off, go and spend a little, feel better.
And if I don't have the money for an original brand name product like let's say a real Mongoose bike, I don't go to Bradlees and get it there for $150 - so simple as that.
Go to the grocery store and get some without the brand marked on them.
You don't want to pay, but you still wanna look like you did?
Don't get it. I pay for brands as it always goes in hand with quality (almost) and it gives you the needed kick - you work your ass off, go and spend a little, feel better.
And if I don't have the money for an original brand name product like let's say a real Mongoose bike, I don't go to Bradlees and get it there for $150 - so simple as that.
I'd rather have one scratch on the titanium frame 10 times more than a scratch on the lens, which would bug me everytime I wore them. I understand if you BREAK the frames..thats a different story..then you cant wear em at all! but its pretty hard to snap titanium.
i'd prefer them to snap out like that, if they didn't then the entire frame would be screwed and i'd be out quite a chunk of change.
I'd prefer that they snap out too, but the frame of my real Oakley Eye Jackets just simply broke, twice, and I really am out quite a chunk of change.
I'd prefer that they snap out too, but the frame of my real Oakley Eye Jackets just simply broke, twice, and I really am out quite a chunk of change.
after puttin on a pair of real oakleys, i could tell the dif (well, for the wires anyway, didn't try on any minutes or anything like that). And I'm willing to pay the money (if i had it.. hehe.. wouldn't we all?) because I wear glasses. Now, my vision isn't so bad I can't drive w/o it, but having perscription sunglasses is a nice touch... and foakleys.. just can't do that.
I've been wearing the real deals for many years now. E-wires for general, just kickin' it, and M-frames for cycling. I race mountain bikes, road bikes, and cyclocross. I've done 24-hour races, raced in the rain, snow, mud, etc. And there is absolutely no comparison between real Oakleys and fakes. I've broken the M-frames more than a couple of times, but no big deal. Oakley simply replaces the frames. (now I've gone through a few lenses, but crashing can do that 
Just get a replacement set and I'm good to go.)
I've paid full price when necessary, but more often than not, I get them cheaper through sponsors. I've had other glasses GIVEN to me through the team, Briko, Bolle, Smith, Rudy Project... As in FREE, GRATIS, $00.00... They ALL ended up in my parts bin. Sure, I wore them in the races for the sponsors, but as soon as I was out of sight, the Oakleys went back on.
So, do what you want. Buy the fakies if that's your decision. But Mats122 makes a great point: If you're going to dis Oakley and say they're not worth the expense, then why do you so desperately want to get a cheap pair of knock-offs? Go to the Quickie-Mart and get some cheap Ray-Bans. Maybe you're paying more for the Oakleys because they've got a kick-ass design team. As well as being damned righteous glasses. But, it's your choice. Be a poser if that's what you want to be. But you'll have sh!tty lenses, cheap-ass frames, and ANYBODY that has worn the real thing can tell the difference.
Just get a replacement set and I'm good to go.)I've paid full price when necessary, but more often than not, I get them cheaper through sponsors. I've had other glasses GIVEN to me through the team, Briko, Bolle, Smith, Rudy Project... As in FREE, GRATIS, $00.00... They ALL ended up in my parts bin. Sure, I wore them in the races for the sponsors, but as soon as I was out of sight, the Oakleys went back on.
So, do what you want. Buy the fakies if that's your decision. But Mats122 makes a great point: If you're going to dis Oakley and say they're not worth the expense, then why do you so desperately want to get a cheap pair of knock-offs? Go to the Quickie-Mart and get some cheap Ray-Bans. Maybe you're paying more for the Oakleys because they've got a kick-ass design team. As well as being damned righteous glasses. But, it's your choice. Be a poser if that's what you want to be. But you'll have sh!tty lenses, cheap-ass frames, and ANYBODY that has worn the real thing can tell the difference.
duke- i don't think i've ever encountered anyone with problems as severe as that, doh. sorry about the trouble, but the frames shouldn't ever crack so bad as they're unusable or even unnoticeable. even when the frame does break, you can simply send them in for a new set, oakleys has an _awesome_ customer service dept. even after your warranty in a year they'll still take good care of ya, but maybe your problems with them are quite serious. in which case i don't know what to say, guess just bad luck =D
most people that don't see a justifiable difference to buy real from fake oakleys don't look past anything besides having them look the same and having them just darken the light around them. real oakleys have an awesome design not just in the structure, but the lens. they have different lenses for every wavelength and use, not just different pretty colors. for example their standard black iridium lenses are awesome for bright light, blocking a lot of glare and general shine, which foakleys will also do to some extent.
but oakleys also have awesome amber colored VR28 lenses and persimmon lenses, which are infinitely better for many things. for example, when you're snowboarding you can't use standard dark lenses like foakleys or black iridum oakleys have, the slopes just disappear from you. it's also not a good idea to use them for driving through say a lot of filtered light, like in the mountains where the light gets filtered down through all the trees or any other forest-type environment. your eyes can't adjust to the quick change in lights so quickly, so foakleys are also horrible for use as driving glasses. but when you use the VR28 lenses or such, then they increase contrast around you so you don't notice a change at all when you're driving through bright areas of light into shady areas, back into bright light, back into dark, etc. you can also notice the small slopes around you when you ski past them at high speeds, so for snow sports you can't use foakleys at all. or bicycling for that matter i presume, going through filtered light (i'm assuming, since i'm not a major bicycler myself). ever notice why sunglasses for snow-use are so much lighter, more often tinted yellow and orange then black? that would be why, they're specially designed. i'd never use foakleys for real sports, and i'd go without sunglasses completely then use foakleys on the slopes.
most people that don't see a justifiable difference to buy real from fake oakleys don't look past anything besides having them look the same and having them just darken the light around them. real oakleys have an awesome design not just in the structure, but the lens. they have different lenses for every wavelength and use, not just different pretty colors. for example their standard black iridium lenses are awesome for bright light, blocking a lot of glare and general shine, which foakleys will also do to some extent.
but oakleys also have awesome amber colored VR28 lenses and persimmon lenses, which are infinitely better for many things. for example, when you're snowboarding you can't use standard dark lenses like foakleys or black iridum oakleys have, the slopes just disappear from you. it's also not a good idea to use them for driving through say a lot of filtered light, like in the mountains where the light gets filtered down through all the trees or any other forest-type environment. your eyes can't adjust to the quick change in lights so quickly, so foakleys are also horrible for use as driving glasses. but when you use the VR28 lenses or such, then they increase contrast around you so you don't notice a change at all when you're driving through bright areas of light into shady areas, back into bright light, back into dark, etc. you can also notice the small slopes around you when you ski past them at high speeds, so for snow sports you can't use foakleys at all. or bicycling for that matter i presume, going through filtered light (i'm assuming, since i'm not a major bicycler myself). ever notice why sunglasses for snow-use are so much lighter, more often tinted yellow and orange then black? that would be why, they're specially designed. i'd never use foakleys for real sports, and i'd go without sunglasses completely then use foakleys on the slopes.
After selling fake O's for a while I have about 100 left all styles and color (all mine not for sale). But since I lose about 2 pairs per week that is just about enough. Over the summer I lost 20 just in the Great South Bay. But anyway they make great disposable glasses
wow this really became a heated debate...
I guess it comes down to affordability. If you can afford to pay $150 for sunglasses, and you feel its worth the value... then go for it.
But if you are like me then buy the fake sunglasses... I may have enough money buy them, but I still don't like wasting money.
One word. PRACTICALITY
I guess it comes down to affordability. If you can afford to pay $150 for sunglasses, and you feel its worth the value... then go for it.
But if you are like me then buy the fake sunglasses... I may have enough money buy them, but I still don't like wasting money.
One word. PRACTICALITY
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