Super Special Sunnies (Oakley Eye Jacket)

Member Name: mrwhippy

Product:	Oakley Eye Jacket
Date:	04/12/00 (432 review reads)
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Advantages: customer support, cool, UV protection, comfort

Disadvantages: expensive, break easily

For a bottom of the range pair of sunglasses these eyejackets are da bomb.
From a manufacturer like Oakley you can't expect anything but quality but these are also great value. I bought mine for only £50 because the centre logo was scratched, a saving of £20.

These shades give great UV protection and also protect against harmful blue light. Although Oakley do make a lot of stuff up about their sunnies (in the owners leaflet it says the lenses are blasted with 12 microns of iridium) they actually are really good quality.

The other advantage of these shades over a £7.99 pair from Boots is that they are cool to wear, you won't look like a fool in these babies. I would probably rather own one of the more expensive items in the Oakley range but for the price these are the best you can get. My pair are just black with black iridium lenses but if you want something a bit cooler be warned: the cooler the colours the more expensive the glasses.

The customer support from Oakley is also excellent. I snapped one of the earstems on my eye jackets and even though the glasses were out of warranty (the optician didn't realise they only have a 12 month warranty) I got them sent away for repair. The opticians phoned the next week and when I went to pick them up I got a pleasant suprise: they replaced the whole sunglasses, not just the earstem so my sunnies no longer have the logo scratched off and I didn't have to pay a penny.

I would recommend these glasses to anyone looking for shades with street cred but doesn't want to fork out over £100 for something they can only wear in the summer.

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