This thread got very preachy very quickly. The entire point of this thread was me raging about how price has gone up, quality overall has gone down, manufacturing has been outsourced, and most of us are upset about the direction that Oakley has been going recently.

I never once said that I didn't like the way the C6 looked. I like the Carbon Fiber version. My grievance is with the bloated price point.

I still love Oakley. I still will collect and cherish all that I can find.


@Freesh: No one claimed that the Pit Boss was Luxottica, in fact, most of us agree that the PB is an amazing sunglass, and in my opinion, the best ever from Oakley. With any research, you would have seen that we all know that the Pit Boss started it's design phase during the "glory days". There are many threads regarding the PB and how awesome it is. Regarding "holding the C6 in our hands": Most of us have held a pair of O-luminum glasses, worn Polarized Grey lenses, and enough of us have been blessed enough to hold a PB. With that said, we can draw on our experiences to give us a general idea of the quality of the Aluminum C6. My point was that, even had I $4000 to spend on the C6, or $1500 for the Aluminum version, I still would never spend that much, since to me, they are far from worth the price. I'm not a prideful, scenester douche, so the pride-of-having-something-that-no-one-else-can-afford does not appeal to me. I like having nice things, but the CF C6 is for the guy that gets his Lamborghini a $250,000 custom paint job, just to be "different". They are for show-offs.

With that said, we are all friends here, so please, let's cut the attitude. If we don't agree with someone else's opinion, let's not adopt a holier-than-thou mindset with one another. This is the internet. We're a bunch of random people complaining about things. Let us complain. That's how forums work. ;)

One last little bit: Oakley has released "cheap" goggles in order to secure a larger piece of the market share. That was one of the points of the original Frogskins. Let's face it, a Frogskin has to be one of the cheapest sunglasses to make. The mold has been around for 25 years. There hasn't been any R&D put into the Frogskin for almost as long as I've been alive. The only pair of Frogskins that required any innovations were the Trevor Andrews Glowskins. The "normal" pairs can't be more than a few bucks a pair to produce at this point. Accounting for inflation, using gasoline as an example, That would make an original Frogskin sell for about twice the original price. I figure $70-$100. Being conservative in my estimates, that's a 3000% profit margin. So, how is $400 for a DQM Frogskin justifiable? Because it is exclusive? It's not. Oakley is trying to produce more profits for it's shareholders. The easiest way would be to lower prices to sell more product. We all know that Oakley is doing extremely well with revenue. They/We would be able to survive lowered prices to increase sales which would increase revenue. The Wal-Mart business model works and works well. Quality would not suffer, but more douches would be wearing White Gascans. We'd benefit as our pockets wouldn't be as empty.

With that said, we are all friends here, so please, let's cut the attitude. If we don't agree with someone else's opinion, let's not adopt a holier-than-thou mindset with one another. This is the internet. We're a bunch of random people complaining about things. Let us complain. That's how forums work. ;)

Thx but no thx for the lesson
Kinda ironic you should say this after a 16-line response to me only

My post wasn't directed to you
It was my contribution to the thread
My opinion, which I don't expect everybody to agree with

And if you actually read my post...
Not once did I mention Pit Boss

Anyways Im out of this one
No hard feelings

What was really expected of the CSix anyway....?

Same as any product. To be as awe-inspiring rather than "meh"-inspiring.

I <3 Freesh.

Feelin' the luv!!!!!

I <3 O-REVIEW. =)

i never thought i would post in this thread but had to add my .02 p

i will say i can never lose faith in oakley. regardless where oakley is going, its where they have been for me. they really made me discover the one style i love. that industrial stealth appeal where no matter how old it is, it just always looks cool. i never could find a single brand that encorporated everthing i loved until the mid 90's when i came across the website back in the aol 33.6 days when i saw the HQ building on the front page.

i was lucky enough to be a part of the factory copilot experience. i got to finally see in person the one single building i wanted to see since i saw a picture of it.

no matter where oakley design goes, it still let me discover the one true design language that i love that no other company could. even if they totally change everything tomorrow, oakley still let me discover that one design style i love.