Call me crazy but those $60 'blue light blocking' glasses are a total scam

I bought a pair from a booth at a street fair in Austin last month, swore I felt less eye strain after 2 days. Then I did the burn test with a lighter on the lens and it melted like normal plastic. No coating at all. Took them to my optometrist and she confirmed they're just tinted lenses with zero blue light filtering. I wasted 60 bucks on placebo glasses. Has anyone else tested their pair and found out they're fake?

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the_cole11d ago

@derekward's got a point about the pop-up booth thing, but I actually see it a little different than most folks in here. Plenty of those $60 glasses are fake, no question, but I've tested a pair from a legit brand with a spectrometer and they did block some blue light, just not all of it. The real scam is the price, not the idea, because a cheap pair with proven filtering works just as well for way less money.

derekward12d ago

Did you buy them from one of those pop-up booths with the big scam sunglasses display, or was it a more permanent storefront?