{"id":1405,"date":"2017-06-19T02:22:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T02:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","slug":"it-never-hurts-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"It Never Hurts to Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;for help.<\/p>\n<p>I have two pair of Maui Jim sunglasses. I love them! The style, the fit, the lenses \u2013 everything about them. However, I didn&#8217;t love the scratches. I don&#8217;t know if it was a flaw in design or just a care issue, but both sunglasses got marred on the inner lens where the earpiece folded onto itself. So upon wearing them, I would see blurry out of the bottom corners. Well, I decided to give Maui Jim a call and describe my situation. Their custom support was extraordinary. I received return instructions, packed and shipped those babies and in less than two weeks, I had them back; completely repaired for a nominal expense. I can&#8217;t say how happy I was with their customer care. So&#8230; whenever you think you don&#8217;t have an option but to toss out a pair of damaged sunglasses, call the manufacturer. You just might be surprised!<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I did the same thing with a set of D&amp;G sunglasses and they are sending replacement lenses for a major scratch in one lens. $20 bucks for shipping and handling \u2013 and Lenscrafters will replace them for free. Whoo hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;for help. I have two pair of Maui Jim sunglasses. I love them! The style, the fit, the lenses \u2013 everything about them. However, I didn&#8217;t love the scratches. I don&#8217;t know if it was a flaw in design or just a care issue, but both sunglasses got marred on the inner lens where the earpiece folded onto itself. So upon wearing them, I would see blurry out of the bottom corners. Well, I decided to give Maui Jim a call and describe my situation. Their custom support was extraordinary. I received return instructions, packed and shipped those babies and in less than two weeks, I had them back; completely repaired for a nominal expense. I can&#8217;t say how happy I was with their customer care. So&#8230; whenever you think you don&#8217;t have an option but to toss out a pair of damaged sunglasses, call the manufacturer. You just might be surprised! Incidentally, I did the same thing with a set of D&amp;G sunglasses and they are sending replacement lenses for a major scratch in one lens. $20 bucks for shipping and handling \u2013 and Lenscrafters will replace them for free. Whoo hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[334,333,192],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-dg","tag-maui-jim","tag-sunglasses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}