so i purchased this pair of a-wires like 8-9 years ago to replace a pair that had been damaged. Bought them on ebay and for a good price from what i can remember. I wore them a handful of times, but then my intrigue with x-metals took over. I put them in a zipper case and then in a drawer....where they waited....anyway, was going through my inventory and found them. Took them out to try them on for nostalgic sake and to my horror it looked like some type of weird oxidation happened to the frame resuling in green specs/corrosion all over. My questions are as follows:
1) are these real? Or was a sold a fake pair?
2) if they are real, has anyone experienced this before or heard of this happening?
3) if they are in fact real, is this something worthwhile bringing up to oakley as a defect, or should i just chalk it up as a loss and move on? I only ask this because i had great experience with oakley CS when my first pair (ever) of eye jackets broke an arm, oakley offered me a decent credit for the lenses (as eye jackets were no longer in production).
1) are these real? Or was a sold a fake pair?
2) if they are real, has anyone experienced this before or heard of this happening?
3) if they are in fact real, is this something worthwhile bringing up to oakley as a defect, or should i just chalk it up as a loss and move on? I only ask this because i had great experience with oakley CS when my first pair (ever) of eye jackets broke an arm, oakley offered me a decent credit for the lenses (as eye jackets were no longer in production).