Whilst on my yearly pre-Christmas trip to Bali we were looking at genuine Ray Ban sunglasses around the Kuta Beach area. There are multitudes of fake Ray Ban sunglasses for sale from street vendors, that goes without saying, but what about the more reputable retail outlets?
This question is more difficult, the last thing you want is to be sold a high priced set of fake sunglasses. So, how do you identify fake Ray Ban sunglasses? Firstly look at the lens, on the left hand side just under the hinge is a small RB lettering etched into the glass. Now these are Ray Bans so the lens is glass and not plastic.
The frame is important and depending on model, the high quality plastic frames have all the data printed on them. Naturally, some series have metal frames so this isn't always pertinent. Check the hinge carefully, cheap or fake versions have different (and low quality) hinges.
Checking the street vendors, they too had an etched lens but the lens quality, frame material, writing and hinge were different. My recommendation would in such a situation go through street vendors first to inspect their quality and then head to a genuine reseller and the quality will be apparent.
Whilst at the genuine reseller, on their shop door or window will be a reseller decal that is year stamped and has a QR code. With your phone you scan te code and enter the web address and the site will verify if this is an authorised reseller. If there is no decal then this store is not an authorised reseller. I suppose this isn't necessarily fake as the grey market is a reasonably large market.
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