oakley VS von zipper VS analog

oakley

Von Zipper's are Uvex goggles with a fancy strap and a flashy add campaign. They are good goggles, I love mine, but you're better off buying an Uvex for half the price...

they got their own molds for next year so the goggles look completely different.

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Oakley





i was going to go for a quad daffy but i was like, why huck? -mommy

hmmmmmmmm... your a 'tool'.

lizibeth and apestead have it right, they know there shit...unless you want everyone in skiing walking around looking like tanner hall and jon olsson...cause thats what oakley is doing.

yeah definitely oakley
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oakley - they rep skiing the best out of all other 'mainstream' companies. i heard anon is starting to sponser skiers, but i haven't seen anything to make me believe it's true.

as for the 'it's too expensive argument' - i don't want to come off as an asshole, but get to know a few guys at your local shop (especially the one who handles eyewear) and eventually they'll start hooking you up.

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Oakley jacket
Analog pants
Smith goggs
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it's not really the gear that i have problems with, but the company itself. i guess i'm biased though because i've seen the differences in interests between various reps when we'd talk to them at trade shows. at the smaller denver regional show, the oakley guys didn't really show any enthusiasm when we were talking to them about the shop. we even had a guy with us who is/was sponsored by oakley and the reps still wouldn't make time for us. too busy with the specialty sports people, i guess. kinda shows you where their priorities lie. yeah we're not a big company, but you'll still get a sale out of us. after numerous phone calls to regional and national reps, we still didn't get any response or we got the run around, so we went with spy who was more than willing to help us even though we'd only stopped by their booth at the regional show for five minutes and didn't sign up or show interest in watching their presentaion. starting a shop really gives you insight as to how the whole industry runs and how different companies conduct business. i was really impressed with the dna reps who showed us everything they had for next year, and stayed for over an hour after the show ended to finish their presentation and talk more about the store. they were so stoked about the whole thing, and they were both at least in their 50s. i'd rather support the companies that support the sport and it's progression, which encompasses more than just the stuff you see out on the hill. current retail stores just don't see the direction skiing is headed and don't really market it like they could. just my thoughts though. you kids do what you want. i'm not trying to push anything on you, just telling a story.

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'That's what Punk is to me. The near final understanding that the world is ours, and that we only have to realize it to make it so.'

-Ben Bormann

that all-leather anon goggle thats coming out next year will be selling for $300 cdn, thats roughly $225 usd or so.

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yah but i get a shop form so it's okay. tee hee.

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'That's what Punk is to me. The near final understanding that the world is ours, and that we only have to realize it to make it so.'

-Ben Bormann

i've seen a scenario like lizziebeth's, but it was with a skateboard shop opening in my old town, they were trying to get shoe companies to let them sell their shoes and DC said they would, but wouldn;t give them shoes until they proved they could sell DC's shoes...doesn't make any sense...but like she said, there were other companies amped on it like Adio and stuff
kinda off topic, but yea...

i still like spy better than oakley...even though it's not one of the choices in the post, i;'ve never used Anon or Von Zipper, but oakley's just don;t fit me right

Jeff
Poniverus

i've had oakelys and von zippers, and i say oakley for sure!

smith and scott seem to be really solid. I loved fuses the time I tried them.

-Michael Lifshitz-