Member
Harry in Poland
Model
Fake Razrwire&module
Color
Silver/black
Family
Eyewear:O-luminum
Serial
F-A-K-E
Bought via
eBay
Purchase
2006-10-11
Quantity
1
Quality
Unusable
Comment
I'm listing these because they are very impressive fake. If I didn't have a pair of 100% genuine Razrwire (purchased in authorized Oakley dealer), I might have believed that these are real.
The main difference between them and the real thing is the connector between the module and power supply (the power supply has the correct markings and raised molded Motorola logo) it is not the mini-USB which Motorola has as a global standard. The fake module itself looks identical to the real thing and seems to work well – the only differences are the colour of the on/off light and the tone made when switching on/off. The glasses are fairly good, frame exactly the right shape, all screws very close to the right sizes. But the earsocks (although being slide-on type) feel wrong and the ‘laser etching’ appears to be stuck on. The lenses are not particularly good quality, not even when not compared to the real thing. The other give-away is one of the orbitals: it has a plastic mould-fragment which would have been cut off to pass Oakley quality control.
The thing which enabled me to prove that they were fake (and so get a paypal refund) was the weight. The module was 0.75 grams too heavy and the glasses 1.45 grams too heavy – I just happened to have some very accurate scales at home.
The biggest disappointment was the packaging. Lack of box was a bit of a red-flag on what was supposedly a new product but the rest of the stuff was terrible (apart from the bag on the power-charger, that had the correct Motorola markings on it). The manual was clearly printed with a laser printer but the original source must have been a .pdf file because the quality was nothing like as good as the real thing. Also the microbag: there wasn’t one! Why go to all the effort of making working fakes and then not provide a proper manual or a microbag?!