Oakley Radar Range $60! (Red)
04-05-09, 11:00 PM
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Oakley Radar Range $60! (Red)
Thought this was too good to pass up, passing it on to my fellow roadies.
https://www.paragonsports.com/webapp/...0051&langId=-1
https://www.paragonsports.com/webapp/...0051&langId=-1
04-06-09, 08:57 AM
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Wow! How can they sell them so cheaply? It seems like that price must be below cost for them. I don't see the photochromic lenses for sale on Oakley.com. Do you have to buy the frame and glasses to get the photochromic lenses?
04-06-09, 09:03 AM
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I bought a pair of M frames (glasses) at the Oakley store in Charlotte for 50.00 last week end, Maybe they are feeling the bite of the recession too.
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i must not purchase anymore crap... i must not purchase anymore crap... i must not purchase anymore crap.....
damn.. that is a smokin deal and i must not purchase anymore crap.
good find..... i must not purchase anymore crap......
damn.. that is a smokin deal and i must not purchase anymore crap.
good find..... i must not purchase anymore crap......
04-06-09, 09:06 AM
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i have those, but with the smaller path lens. i picked them up off eBay for twice as much. love mine. later.
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My order shipped today, slickdeal for sure! I've been wanting a pair of Radar's for awhile now.
Gone already!
04-07-09, 12:37 AM
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My buddies and I were having lunch this weekend and I took off my radars and popped the lenses out to clean them. My buddy asked me how much the glasses were, I told him $184 full retail (I paid no where near that). He then asked how much are the lenses, I replied they're about 80-90. After a second he picked up the frames and said "so you're telling me they're charging about 100 for this orange piece of plastic?!".
So if you really think about what goes into making a the frames, $69 isn't that insane, it's a good deal but I doubt they're losing much profit selling them at this price, it can't cost oakley more than $1 to make a pair of frames.
So if you really think about what goes into making a the frames, $69 isn't that insane, it's a good deal but I doubt they're losing much profit selling them at this price, it can't cost oakley more than $1 to make a pair of frames.
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that's a really loaded statement, with that kind of logic you can question any bike maker out there saying they charge 4 figures for what's essential a couple pounds of aluminum. oakley spends a lot of money on R+D and it shows in their quality (thats why people jump on the oppurtunity to buy that set up for only 60 bucks). granted they do put a markup on their stuff, but if you made it to the forefront of any industry, i doubt you'd be selling your products at cost
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that's a really loaded statement, with that kind of logic you can question any bike maker out there saying they charge 4 figures for what's essential a couple pounds of aluminum. oakley spends a lot of money on R+D and it shows in their quality (thats why people jump on the oppurtunity to buy that set up for only 60 bucks). granted they do put a markup on their stuff, but if you made it to the forefront of any industry, i doubt you'd be selling your products at cost
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My buddies and I were having lunch this weekend and I took off my radars and popped the lenses out to clean them. My buddy asked me how much the glasses were, I told him $184 full retail (I paid no where near that). He then asked how much are the lenses, I replied they're about 80-90. After a second he picked up the frames and said "so you're telling me they're charging about 100 for this orange piece of plastic?!".
So if you really think about what goes into making a the frames, $69 isn't that insane, it's a good deal but I doubt they're losing much profit selling them at this price, it can't cost oakley more than $1 to make a pair of frames.
So if you really think about what goes into making a the frames, $69 isn't that insane, it's a good deal but I doubt they're losing much profit selling them at this price, it can't cost oakley more than $1 to make a pair of frames.
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that's a really loaded statement, with that kind of logic you can question any bike maker out there saying they charge 4 figures for what's essential a couple pounds of aluminum. oakley spends a lot of money on R+D and it shows in their quality (thats why people jump on the oppurtunity to buy that set up for only 60 bucks). granted they do put a markup on their stuff, but if you made it to the forefront of any industry, i doubt you'd be selling your products at cost
04-07-09, 09:28 AM
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Seriously. I think by R&D you guys mean marketing. You're fooling yourself if you think that this isn't the core of expenses for a fashion brand like Oakley. I'd like to see a team of scientists in white lab coats obsessing over a piece of plastic whose shape has remained largely unchanged for over a century. The only thing that has changed is style.
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$60 is for the frame and lenses, not just the frame and the argument regarding the frame is like saying the cost to Microsoft of producing Windows is the cost of a DVD. The R&D cost for Oakley is in the lenses. I read an interview of someone from Oakley that said that the prototype glasses Lance was trying on were worth $15,000. I bought some $60 glasses from Optic Nerve thinking they would be similar to the quality of my old M-Frames. They clarity isn't even close! That's why I bought those Radars for $60.
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Seriously. I think by R&D you guys mean marketing. You're fooling yourself if you think that this isn't the core of expenses for a fashion brand like Oakley. I'd like to see a team of scientists in white lab coats obsessing over a piece of plastic whose shape has remained largely unchanged for over a century. The only thing that has changed is style.
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$60 is for the frame and lenses, not just the frame and the argument regarding the frame is like saying the cost to Microsoft of producing Windows is the cost of a DVD. The R&D cost for Oakley is in the lenses. I read an interview of someone from Oakley that said that the prototype glasses Lance was trying on were worth $15,000. I bought some $60 glasses from Optic Nerve thinking they would be similar to the quality of my old M-Frames. They clarity isn't even close! That's why I bought those Radars for $60.
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Ive always worn oakleys...owned about 7 pairs. Their lenses are excellent! crystal! Just picked up a pro m frame shooting array( dark lense, hi bright orange lense, clear lense) w/ case brand spankion new for $120. A Steal!
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Seriously. I think by R&D you guys mean marketing. You're fooling yourself if you think that this isn't the core of expenses for a fashion brand like Oakley. I'd like to see a team of scientists in white lab coats obsessing over a piece of plastic whose shape has remained largely unchanged for over a century. The only thing that has changed is style.
Oakley: An Eye for Design
What is going on is all of Oakley's design and research and development-and the manufacturing of most of Oakley's eyewear. More than three-quarters of the 417,000-square-foot headquarters is devoted to manufacturing. Oakley invests heavily in technology, not only in R&D and in the products, but in the machines that make its products. Every machine was created by the Oakley design department. Oakley builds its own parts, invents programs to run cutting tools, and even develops mold processes unheard of in the world of industrial manufacturing. "This is all to drive the quality of the product, "Baden explains. "There are no machines on the planet that can make our products the way we want them. W eare forced to make the machine that makes our products."
And FWIW I wear and support Rudy Project, lest someone call me out as an Oakley fanboy.
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so you're saying a couple pounds of aluminum (bike frame) costing $1k is not the same as a couple ounces of plastic costing (sunglasses) $100?
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Just kicking the garbage can for missing this deal.
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