Crap...now I want too expensive sunglasses

[Fritzo]

I just tried on some Prada PR54IS's over lunch, and they are quite possibly the most comfortable and best looking thing I have ever put on my face. the $250 price tag however made me save my money for a change of underwear after I crapped myself.

How the hell can a bunch of plastic be worth that much???

 

[disappoint]

For some reason when I think Prada it seems a brand only women would wear.

P.S. to answer your question: Supply and demand.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Best looking thing you've had on your face eh?

 

[soulcougher73]

It's all in the perceived designer name. It's not even supply and demand.

 

[BurnItDwn]

That's a woman brand.

Get manly ones
http://www.amazon.com/DPG54-2C-Perfo.../dp/B000FP8IGS

Though I think these are really only intended for when you are building or demoing stuff in the sun....

 

[Midwayman]

How the hell can a bunch of plastic be worth that much???

'cause you get to brag to your girlfriends about owning Prada and they'll all be jealous.

 

[Murloc]

I didn't know prada made men's sunglasses.

 

[NutBucket]

Its all marketing. But I don't criticize. I have many pairs of sunglasses that are $200. The last pair of frames my wife got were about $1000. They're luxury items.

 

[rivan]

After YEARS of swearing by Maui Jim sunglasses, I forgot them last year on vacation and picked up a $10 pair of polarized, Foster-Grant cheapies at WalMart and now actually prefer them.

My older pair of Jims are now my backups.

 

[Imp]

$250 is cheap shit... I have two $300+ pairs from Maui Jim. I only wear one and have worn them daily for 2 years, so they've paid for themselves already.

They're priced that much because yo can't find them cheaper... Unless you go the counterfeit route. And it's all controlled by a few players.

 

[SSSnail]

 

[Midwayman]

$250 is cheap shit... I have two $300+ pairs from Maui Jim. I only wear one and have worn them daily for 2 years, so they've paid for themselves already.

They're priced that much because yo can't find them cheaper... Unless you go the counterfeit route. And it's all controlled by a few players.

I believe in paying for optics, but you can get pretty good lenses and build quality once you pass $50-60. Maui Jim is all about the customer service. Anything happens, ever and you'll get a new pair free. I have a couple pair of $200+ ray bans and don't mind too much as I'm not one of those guys who loses their sunglasses all the time, or stuffs them somewhere that they get all scratched up. Some people shouldn't own expensive sunglasses.

 

[slightlyhuman]

sunglasses were made to block the sun.

my $8 ross specials do just that.


is there something i'm missing?

 

[xanis]

I'll concede that some pairs of designer glasses look better than cheap ones.

That said, there's no way in hell that I'd pay anywhere near $250 for a pair of sunglasses. I was in Lord & Taylor recently for ha-has and looked at a sunglasses bin. Had I not seen the price tag I would have assumed that they came from the $10 rack at Walmart. There was literally NO perceptible difference in quality between them and the $15 pair that I just bought last week.

 

[Mixolydian]

Michael Kors, yo.

 

[Mixolydian]

is there something i'm missing?

style.

 

[NutBucket]

sunglasses were made to block the sun.

my $8 ross specials do just that.


is there something i'm missing?

Try out some Maui Jim or Revo sunglasses. Yes you're paying for a name but they have noticeably better optics than el cheapo glasses.

 

[futuristicmonkey]

style.

...and polarization

 

[MaxPayne63]

$250 = expensive sunglasses? I paid $450 after 15% farm bureau discount (prescription glasses, so its pretty much the only thing not taxed in the Land of Lenin) and that isn't anywhere close to top of the line.

 

[Imp]

I believe in paying for optics, but you can get pretty good lenses and build quality once you pass $50-60. Maui Jim is all about the customer service. Anything happens, ever and you'll get a new pair free. I have a couple pair of $200+ ray bans and don't mind too much as I'm not one of those guys who loses their sunglasses all the time, or stuffs them somewhere that they get all scratched up. Some people shouldn't own expensive sunglasses.

I baby my sunglasses. I only ever ruined one pair of Maui Jims (not the two $300 pairs I was talking about) by wearing them on top of my shaved head outside my shitty office building that's beside a highway and a lot of flat land -- wind tunnel effect.

I get Maui Jims because they have a lot of base-curve 8 options that I like. Base curve 6 and below reflect too much stuff from behind. Wayfarers are awesome, but they don't fit my missing nose bridge and they're base curve 6, IIRC.

 

[edro]

Just make sure they're polarized.

Once you go polarized, you don't go back.

 

[The_Dude8]

I believe in paying for optics, but you can get pretty good lenses and build quality once you pass $50-60. Maui Jim is all about the customer service. Anything happens, ever and you'll get a new pair free. I have a couple pair of $200+ ray bans and don't mind too much as I'm not one of those guys who loses their sunglasses all the time, or stuffs them somewhere that they get all scratched up. Some people shouldn't own expensive sunglasses.

when did MJ have lifetime warranty for their shades? i have a pair of MJ that the nose bridge broke. Wonder they will fix it for free.

 

[Imp]

Polarized matters a lot, but it's the anti-reflective coating is bigger to me -- dark lens, super high amount of reflections. Last I checked, Ray Bans that aren't polarized don't come with an AR coating. I had to get rid of my Aviators because I cheaped out and got the regular lens.

 

[Cattlegod]

I have a pair of these. never would have thought expensive glasses make a difference, but these are amazing compared to my $20 pair of iron mans from target. something in the lenses and they weigh almost nothing. almost like looking through slightly tinted glass but with no glare or squinting at all even in the brightest sun and you don't even notice you are wearing them.

http://www.amazon.com/Maui-Jim-Hooki...jim+ho%27okipa

 

[disappoint]

I have a pair of $200 Revo polarized and may a stack of holy bibles that I swear they are great sunglasses on fall on my head and crush me with the weight of their crapton of bullshit if they don't improve my vision while protecting my eyes from the harmful effects of the sun God created to irradiate you and give you cataracts and cancer because he wants to see you BURN for your sins. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

Allright thats it I've had it! George Carlin you're a bad influence you hilarious bastard!