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frontpage Posted by Red_Liz | Staff • 2d ago
May 14, 2025 3:24 PM
Maui Jim Sunglasses: Unisex Breakwall HCL Bronze Wrap Sunglasses
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Super flimsy, as its all plastic. Wore them to the beach once, the lenses got scratched to high hell since, well, they are plastic. Costs way too much to fix only for it to happen again.
I love Maui Jim sunglasses, as I have 4 pairs, but never buy the plastic lenses.
JomaShop is not an authorized Maui Jim reseller. They might be legit or maybe grey market. Even if legit, they aren't backed by Maui Jim's warranty. Looking at Maui Jim's webpage, there is one noticeable difference that suggests to me that JomaShop is swap meet louie [youtube.com], and that is the Maui Jim logo embedded [mauijim.com] on the lens.
As for Maui Jim, get the real thing (from an authorized reseller) and you won't regret it.
I gifted myself my first pair of Maui Jim's (Big Kahuna) after having LASIK in 1999. The $350 sunglasses were a drop in the bucket after spending $3800 on LASIK. Back then, my ride to and from work was towards the sun, and these made the drive much easier. No squinting, no pulling down sunshades... just drive towards the sun. Decades have passed and the lenses are still flawless. Even the etched-in Maui Jim logo on the lens looks new. The frame would be perfect if the embedded/glued Maui Jim logos on the arms (near the ear) didn't fall off. I did contact Maui Jim about nose pads. They shipped me replacement nose pads free of charge, no questions asked other than the model number.
Fast forward to around 2010. I coaxed my wife into buying a pair. We picked them up at Costco for $99. She didn't like them. We bought the same model at an authorized reseller for $239, and looking at the sun was noticeably different. Needless to say, we returned the Costco pair.
Throughout the 2010s, I was able to score lots of different designer sunglasses between 2010 and 2018 with casino points from the Hard Rock Tampa. With that said, I have three different models of Maui Jims for myself (forward thinking, I made sure they were RX-able models). I also managed to get many sunglasses for my wife (Oakley, Revo, Ray-Ban, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, etc).
Over the years, my eyes have regressed a bit and need a prescription lens. I bought a pair of prescription sunglasses from Costco. They were terrible in comparison. So bad that I would wear my regular glasses and put my Big Kahunas over top while driving. A year later, I took one of the RX frames to an authorized Maui Jim reseller with my script. They sent off the frames to Maui Jim and had real Maui Jim prescription lenses put in. The lenses cost $550; if I were to buy the same frames, it would have added another $350. I regret not paying an additional $50 for mirrored lenses (for the cool factor). Maybe next time. Regardless, they were (and still are three years later) worth every penny. Note: Costco said they could put prescription sunglasses into the Maui Jim frames, but they would not be authentic Maui Jim lenses.
In short, get the real thing and you won't be disappointed. Get fake stuff, no promises.
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Maui Jim is an American sunglasses manufacturer based in Peoria, Illinois.
Founded in Lahaina, Hawaii, in 1980, the company designs, develops, and manufactures a wide variety of sunglasses marketed under the eponymous brand name. As of 2015, it was the third-largest producer of sunglasses in the world.
In October 2022, Maui Jim was acquired by Kering.