Testing the 'scam'

So going around lately in magazines and in the mail, have been gift cards worth $500 for a company called RedStar Worldwear.  That seems pretty legit, but then you go and find out that you have to pay a 9% processing and shipping fee that cannot come from the gift card.  So this makes my "free" sunglasses actually cost about $17 (they're said to be worth $190 originally).  So is this a scam?  are they just trying to get your money for crappy sunglasses? or are these the real deal?  The website says they're doing this deal in order to "create a buzz for our new products" and you have to wonder if that's true.

So I took a small hit and tried it out (I had made a little extra money a couple months ago so I thought I'd put it to good use).  I ordered myself one of the pricier, polarized pairs of sunglasses, and got my wife a pair, and a pair for my good friend Chris Taney ('cause he helped me earn that extra money in the first place).  They shipped surprisingly fast, I was expecting a couple of weeks, but they got here in under a week!  And they are not cheap plastic wal*mart glasses.  They are surprisingly good, solidly built, quality materials.  For me the biggest test if they were quality or not was if they are truly polarized.  They have on their website a section of glasses marked as polarized, and I wanted to know if they truly came with polarized lenses, so I tested them out in the video below, and you will find that they are in fact polarized.  Sweet shades!