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[Moonchilde]

LOL!

I just came across my first infomercial for Hazuki Magnifying Glasses. What a joke!

These are cheap, ugly plastic "glasses" that are made to be worn by themselves OR over glasses. I once bought a pair of yellow driving glasses styled similarly. They don't fit either way. Fit-wise they're a disaster and look odd on the face/head.

These are "special" because they're from Japan (ooooh!), "indestructible", and block blue light and UV light. They also (woot-hoo) magnify a whole huge 1.6X or 1.32X (your choice) and cost $100/pr!

They have a wider field of view than drugstore readers, but are far more visible, ugly and obvious, only magnify 1.6X max (vs up to 6X in readers), and cost about what 7 pair of average to very good readers cost.

LOL the infomercial has "happy customers" avowing to have "several pair" for every room/task.

Gotta love free enterprise.

[chickenbutt]

Doncha know it!    I swear, infomercial merchandise, ALMOST without exception, is total garbage.

I've seen the commercial-length type infomercials and looked up items to find that they were garbage and massively over-priced on the info price as well.  

The ONLY thing I ever got because of an informercial that was a great product was my first Foodsaver.  Mind you, I didn't purchase it from the infomercial.  I went to a local store (this was like mid 90s, shortly before i was on the internet) and purchased it there.  (same price, just no shipping)

You can't even believe a thing they say in those things.  That's been what my experience has taught, anyway.   Plus, they mislead about the terms.  The ones where you get another one *free* - but you pay about as much for additional shipping, so nothing's free at all.   

I hate to think that a lot of people believe the hype and make the purchases, especially directly from the infomercial, because we have so much information easily at hand these days.   There are some that put them on an auto-delivery program and you will play hell-o getting out of it.

[Moonchilde]

I have bought items that have been featured in infomercials (Air Fryer XL for one), but I research them up the wazoo first and try to buy from Amazon or BBB rather than the product website. I refuse to get caught up in the buy one, get one, auto delivery, etc.

But this particular product just cracked me up that people would pay $100(!) for a $15 item. Oy.

[Cakers3]

I've never seen these but they are just magnifying glasses??  If you need them for reading or anything else for that matter then you need a good eye exam and the correct lenses for your two eyes-because usually the lenses are different strengths for each eye-at least in my experience.

  I'm so used to my prescription glasses that these look like they would make me sick.

I've had cheap "reading" glasses but again those were only one strength for two different needs for my eyes.

[Moonchilde]

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@Cakers3 wrote:

I've never seen these but they are just magnifying glasses??  If you need them for reading or anything else for that matter then you need a good eye exam and the correct lenses for your two eyes-because usually the lenses are different strengths for each eye-at least in my experience.

  I'm so used to my prescription glasses that these look like they would make me sick.

I've had cheap "reading" glasses but again those were only one strength for two different needs for my eyes.

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@Cakers3 Yes, underneath all the hype about how special they are to be worth $100, they are essentially just clunky, ugly $15 readers.

I actually don't need them. My cataract surgery was a huge disappointment to me in terms of sight (Rx) results, but the one thing I now don't need glasses for is close-up reading and the iPad.

So, I don't need them myself, but I thought the whole hype on these Hazuki things was kinda mind-boggling.

[NickNack]

Oh my gosh!  I've never heard of these.  They are really ugly.  Who in the world would buy these? They're $120 on the Hazuki website--3 payments of $39.95.

[missy1]

I never heard of them, so I looked them up. They look like welding glasses.

[Moonchilde]

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@missy1 wrote:

I never heard of them, so I looked them up. They look like welding glasses.

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Yes, exactly, @missy1!

[Moonchilde]

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@Nicknack wrote:

Oh my gosh!  I've never heard of these.  They are really ugly.  Who in the world would buy these? They're $120 on the Hazuki website--3 payments of $39.95.

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I know! I'm watching the infomercial and all these people (men and women) are going on and on about how cool & hot & stylish they are, and how they're so totally amazing and they can't live without them. It's hilarious.

Maybe adult children buy them for parents? I dunno...