I need new sunglasses for the summer. I usually get the $10. cheapo’s at the corner drug store. Wife has suggested that I might actually see better with these. Anyone on the board try them yet??
Pretty much anything will be better than the cheapo ones. Your eyes are too important to be “protected” by Chinese plastic. Spring for some good ones and see how much prettier summer is.
For the record, I’ve been wearing the same pair of sunglasses for the last 35 years. When you buy the good ones, they last.
Unless you’re like me and lose them five minutes after you buy them 
That’s me - I can buy the $9.99 pair and never lose them. Buy a nice expensive pair and they are lost within a week.
Looking at the website, I believe these are the sunglasses that are advertised as offering “blue light protection” and the website notes that they are certified by the “Space Foundation.” I vote bullshit.
Shit, me too. There has to be some sort of term or word for that phenomenon.
I agree 100%.
I stopped losing sunglasses when I started paying good money for them.
The ones in the OP seem like crap to me. I’d go with a name brand if you’re dropping some good bread.
I hate the Eagle Eyes. It makes everything look like a desert and it is wearying to use them.
I recommend going to an optometrist and getting a prescription for eyeglasses and have a pair made as sunglasses. Wonderful for driving.
Those look like a rip-off, but they’re also not very expensive as sunglasses go, so I guess it doesn’t hurt to try. I agree with the others that anything is better than the super cheap ones.
Murphy’s Law.
No opinion on the sunglasses… I never even owned a pair until a year ago and I still only wear them when driving on a sunny day. If you wear glasses I’d suggest getting a pair of prescription sunglasses.
According to the woman at my eye doctor place, Maui Jimmakes the absolute best sunglasses out there. I tried on a pair, and I think she may be right. You can look almost directly at the sun without squinting.
Yep. I actually have several pairs of prescription sunglasses with different colored lenses for different purposes.
That’s because they’re polarized, not because they’re Maui Jims.
As I’ve had to explain for years and years, UV protection does not require fancy 'spensive lenses. UV is automatically blocked by any material of a certain density, even if it’s transparent.
The difference between crappy sunglasses and good ones is in optical clarity (or, more commonly, the name), not in UV protection.
“Blue light protection” is a real thing- sort of. The eye doesn’t filter blue light well, so you tend to see more clearly (subjectively) through lens colors that filter it out (brown, rose or amber, generally). You don’t need to be protected from it.
Eagle Eyes use a brown base lens, and they’re polarized, so you will see more clearly through them. If I was going to spend $80 on a pair of sunglasses, though, I’d go the whole hog and get some Maui Jims. Or Serengetis, my personal faves: they offer polarized and photochromic (light-adaptive) lenses.
Lots of info here, and I hardly made up any of it.
Maui Jim.
I had an excellent pair for eight or nine years, and then I must have left them in a rental car.
Best sunglasses I have ever worn. The coatings and the polarization beats all other brands. When the temples snapped off due to some weird brittleness after several years, I sent them off and they fixed them for the cost of shipping.
Even if you don’t wear prescription eyeglasses, this is a very good idea. You can get the overall health of your eyes checked, and chances are you will be able to use your vision insurance to defray the cost of some good, non-scrip sunglasses.
Really the nice thing about Eagle Eyes is that they’re polarized, so if you like how they work, any polarized lens will work the same.