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GoodVision Glasses in the endurance test

The robustness and durability of glasses is important in many areas. To demonstrate durability and repairability, our GoodVision Technicians put the glasses through a real endurance test.

Tires almost run over OneDollarGlasses
© EinDollarBrille | Will the glasses stay intact?

During training in Burkina Faso (West Africa), our GoodVision Technicians were to learn how to repair a pair of bent glasses for a customer. To do this, we first had to bend the frame. To do this, we first stepped on the glasses with our foot. However, this was not enough to deform the frame. Then we rolled over the glasses with the bike – but the frame wasn't really bent after that either.

GoodVision Burkina Faso employee holds bent OneDollarGlasses
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... the frame was bent and the lenses were cracked. Dafrassin took his pliers and began the repair.

Man from Burkina Faso, wearing OneDollarGlasses, holding his thumbs up
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Then, after just two minutes, Daffrasin proudly put on the glasses he had repaired. Only the plastic lenses had suffered a few scratches.

White jeep on an earthy road in Burkina Faso
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Only when our former production manager Dafrassin Sanou drove over the glasses in a jeep...

GoodVision Burkina Faso employee holds bent OneDollarGlasses
© EinDollarBrille

... the frame was bent and the lenses were cracked. Dafrassin took his pliers and began the repair.

Man from Burkina Faso, wearing OneDollarGlasses, holding his thumbs up
© EinDollarBrille

Then, after just two minutes, Daffrasin proudly put on the glasses he had repaired. Only the plastic lenses had suffered a few scratches.

White jeep on an earthy road in Burkina Faso
© EinDollarBrille

Only when our former production manager Dafrassin Sanou drove over the glasses in a jeep...

GoodVision Burkina Faso employee holds bent OneDollarGlasses
© EinDollarBrille

... the frame was bent and the lenses were cracked. Dafrassin took his pliers and began the repair.

These glasses are truly indestructible.
Dafrassin, Former Production Manager (Burkina Faso)

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