First I order a pair from Oakley , only to find out that they are nicked on the lens near the top of the frames.
I guess the cutting of the lens edge was not smoothed out.
But enought that these should of not been sent out, or even passes through Q.A..
Second, I spot a pair at my local mall, at a kiosk owned by Oakley. Guess what?? Same thing!! I proceed to let the salesperson (what a joke!) know about it. She informs me, "I cant sell these, Ill have to send back to Oakley".
Third, Im at another local mall, at a kiosk owned by Oakley(Different name than previous), and theres is even worse.

THATS 3 TIMES I HAVE SEEN THE SAME THING. IF OAKLEY WANTS US TO BUY THESE NEW X-METALS, I SUGGEST THEY WORK THEIR BUGS OUT, SO WE DONT PLOP DOWN $375.00 FOR S&*T!!!!!!

Oh yea, by the way, my local O store doesnt have any at all.
They have the others, not the Plasma. Hummmmmmmm.

OAKLEY!!!! Get it right before you present state of the art
eyewear, so we too can be impressed. Or not!!

O Collector (okyman62 - 1/10/2005 4:25:02 PM)
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OK thats settled it i am no way gonna buy a pair from the internet now.

Alexis Watkins (LEX7 - 1/11/2005 1:14:55 AM)
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Wierd! Maybe I haven't been taking too close inspection as I've checked out the Romeo 2 at stores. I haven't noticed any nicks in the lens or the other issue mentioned in a string regarding odd lens shading at the edge.

Paul McJannet (oogie - 1/10/2005 5:55:17 PM)
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Okyman,
Thanks for the call earlier. Looks like we won't be getting them for sometime, but they'll be coming in a box with a batch of replacement lenses.

It's a let down that Oakley's product would be like this. I don't recall in the past that there being so many problems...

It's things like this that make me upset and lose interest in previously GOOD companies: e.g. Ray-ban, Revo, Oliver Peoples....(the two former ones now owned by Luxottica. I wonder what that says)

I guess all we can do is hope they check this page out and fix the problems or else even my interest in the X-Metal line will wane.



Jonathan Tung (Jonathan Tung - 1/10/2005 7:32:59 PM)
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Im gonna wait untill they make some more colours cos then hopefully all the kinks will be worked out by then.
i hope they do cos i gotta have the whole collection

Alexis Watkins (LEX7 - 1/11/2005 10:01:23 AM)
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Oh crap, this doesn't bode well does it... I'm still waiting for mine to arrive in the post. They should be here today or tomorrow so I guess I'll have to reserve judgment until then. I hope they're OK...

adam moore (adamjmoore - 1/11/2005 11:11:35 AM)
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