Hi all,
I'm new to the forum and this is my first post. Looks like a good group of folks around here.
So, until recently I was still wearing my Oakley Square Wires I bought new back in '98-'99. They needed to be retired so I bought some black/black Oakley Badman from the big online retailer of everything. I know Oakleys are popular glasses to fake, so I was giving these new glasses a good once-over and am not convinced that these are legit Oakley glasses. The problem is that I've never seen what I know is a real pair of the Badman glasses, so I don't have anything to judge them by. This is also my first pair of Oakley polarized glasses, so I'm not familiar with how the lenses should look. I'm hoping I can get some help here.
There's a couple of things that are alarming to me:
1. These are supposed to be Dark Carbon frames with black iridium lenses (OO6020-01). The frames actually look like a dark brown to me. At first I thought they sent me the wrong glasses, but the model number of the arm is correct. I went looking for pictures online to see if this was just the Dark Carbon color, and it seems it may be, but I'm seeing most these pictures from eBay auctions and I don't trust that any of them are legit either.
2. The thing that really has me concerned is the lenses. I noticed that if I have a bright light behind the glasses and I look through the front of the lenses, I see quite a bit of distortion. As I mentioned above, I'm not familiar with polarized lenses and this could be expected. I'm just not sure and would like to know if these are legit or not.
Here are some pics of the glasses. Other than the distortion on the lenses, I'm not even sure what I should be taking pictures of, so let me know if there's something else I need to capture. Can anyone confirm that these are legit or not?
I'm new to the forum and this is my first post. Looks like a good group of folks around here.
So, until recently I was still wearing my Oakley Square Wires I bought new back in '98-'99. They needed to be retired so I bought some black/black Oakley Badman from the big online retailer of everything. I know Oakleys are popular glasses to fake, so I was giving these new glasses a good once-over and am not convinced that these are legit Oakley glasses. The problem is that I've never seen what I know is a real pair of the Badman glasses, so I don't have anything to judge them by. This is also my first pair of Oakley polarized glasses, so I'm not familiar with how the lenses should look. I'm hoping I can get some help here.
There's a couple of things that are alarming to me:
1. These are supposed to be Dark Carbon frames with black iridium lenses (OO6020-01). The frames actually look like a dark brown to me. At first I thought they sent me the wrong glasses, but the model number of the arm is correct. I went looking for pictures online to see if this was just the Dark Carbon color, and it seems it may be, but I'm seeing most these pictures from eBay auctions and I don't trust that any of them are legit either.
2. The thing that really has me concerned is the lenses. I noticed that if I have a bright light behind the glasses and I look through the front of the lenses, I see quite a bit of distortion. As I mentioned above, I'm not familiar with polarized lenses and this could be expected. I'm just not sure and would like to know if these are legit or not.
Here are some pics of the glasses. Other than the distortion on the lenses, I'm not even sure what I should be taking pictures of, so let me know if there's something else I need to capture. Can anyone confirm that these are legit or not?