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Warning: Eyebuydirect.ca isnt Canadian!! They're from Texas. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
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Just bought my second set of glasses from there and went to print up the invoice for insurance, saw the address grrr.

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[–] [S] 27 points 7 months ago

Fucking Texas

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    [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think Kits is the most 'buycanadian' of the local alternatives. The frames are sourced from elsewhere, and the lenses and assembly are done in Canada.

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    • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (14 children)

    Texas, Alberta, what's the difference?

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Well one is a province and one is a State. I can't believe how dumb people are. It is a bad joke espcially America treating the 51st state.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm confused, if Alberta is a province, why does it act like a state? Why is the governor of Alberta lined up in the cold outside the Trump inauguration and why does she frequently visit Maralago? Why is an Alberta MP on Joe Rogan outlining his kettlebell routine?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    That's just our politicians. Politicians are morons.

    There's a lot of morons in Alberta too. Just like in Ontario, and Manitoba, and wherever else. It's a real epidemic.

    There's lots of normal people in Alberta too. People that just go about their daily business. Remember that 47.3% of people that voted in Alberta, didn't vote for the UCP.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    92% of Alberta MPs are UCP.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    That's an effect of FPTP though, not necessarily the reflection of the population as a whole. Alberta is especially affected by FPTP because of its population layout. The next race will almost certainly be decided in Calgary, pretty much no matter what happens elsewhere in the province. If everything stays status quo that is.

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  • [+] -19 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Texas, Alberta, what's the difference?

    You're probably confused, as Alberta is a province that is a part of Canada.

    Since the warning was about the company not being Canadian (and not a warning that the company is not Albertan), your question doesn't work.

    Unless of course it was your intent to show that you're dumber than a sack of hammers.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    So, they are basically the same?

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    No.

    In the first case, the intent is to be seen as clever.

    In the second case, the intent is to be seen as stupid.

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    • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That's Essilor. Their Dallas HQ is at 13555 N Stemmons Freeway.

    For those not in the know Essilor is the Nestle of the eye care industry

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    • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Ugh thank you for this! Really cant trust anything in one look. I sometimes have to go to a websites terms or privacy policy to see where the governing law is, especislly when they hide it on the website.

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (10 children)

    Were you expecting a .ca website to be Canadian?

    Most websites support .ca, .uk, etc without being stores from that actual country in order to support language or stock differences. E.g. amazon.ca

    If it makes you feel better, eyebuydirect has pretty dang good prices and quality. I use them to buy spares. :)

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Afaik to register a .ca you either need to either be a Canadian, a permanent resident, some sort of legal entity in Canada (so say Amazon Canada), or the monarch. So this company should have some kind of Canadian presence if they own a .ca.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It used to be much, much tighter, but I'm going back to the 1990's for this. Back then you needed to have a real-life presence across the country to get a top level .CA domain. Otherwise you needed to get one in a provincial subdomain, like .QC.CA or .ON.CA.

    Provinces might even demand that you get a municipal level subdomain.

    But no more.

    I seem to remember needing to show proof, like articles of incorporation...but that might have been for getting a VeriSign certificate.

    Last time I registered a . CA domain there was no verification of anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    my registrar required a Canadian billing address, but I think a PO box was acceptable, so probably wouldn't stop someone outside Canada from registering as long as they could get a PO box here.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    Many country-based tlds don't (at least as far as I am aware). E.g, all of the .ai domains.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    But .ca does.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    Does it? I just checked most of the way out in godaddy for a made-up .ca domain that was available.

    They only required that I describe the nature of my relationship with Canada. One of the choices was literally “trade-mark registered in Canada.”

    That hardly feels like a requirement to be Canadian.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Trademark registered in Canada would be "some sort of legal entity in Canada". The claim was not that the individual needed to be Canadian and that was the only way.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Ok? Is that as simple as registering a bullshit LLC or something, because suddenly it doesn't sound like you have to be Canadian in any way to get a .ca. I feel like you are leveraging technicalities.

    Btw, is there a source for this or is it just another (trust me bro) assertion?

    There are a fuckton of international treaties that have trademark registration essentially be automatic in participating countries.

    Because I'm curious what else you are trying to say. Literally every international company has to have a presence in Canada to respect trademarks?

    That doesn't seem realistic.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I'm saying that Canada enforces, at least in theory, who can register a .ca domain and that those people must have a connection to Canada that they have decided is worth the TLD. The CIRA is a non profit that, again in theory, enforces Canadian Presence rules.

    You said you were not aware of TLDs that cared. I made you aware of one.

    I don't know why I'm picking aggression from you for such a minor thing. If I'm reading tone wrong, my bad.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    These are made in Quebec https://www.atelierora.ca

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    [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    https://www.clearly.ca was bought by EssilorLuxottica. They do not use Shopify, and use Klarna instead. They have their own brand of glasses, but I'm not sure where they are made.

    EssilorLuxottica also bought Eyebuydirect.

    https://bourgeoiseyewear.com are made in Canada in Dieppe, New Brunswick.

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