Track down hard-to-find smart glasses with Perplexity Pro, but not buy them (partial)
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Help me find a place to buy Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses near me. They've been sold out for months. Tell me which stores have them, what I need to do to buy, and where you found each piece of information.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about the details below and wait for my answers. Once I've answered, confirm the plan in one line and run the whole task start to finish. Goal: Find out where and how I can actually buy a hard-to-get product, with sources I can check. Questions to ask me first: - What exact product, size or style do you want? - Where are you, and how far are you willing to travel? - Would you buy from a resale site, and what's your top price? Inputs (fill in or confirm): - Product and model: [PRODUCT] - My location and travel limit: [LOCATION / MILES] - Top price: [PRICE] - OK to use resale sites? [YES / NO] Rules: - Start with the maker's official buying rules (appointments, demos, fittings, limits). - List authorized stores near me with a link to each store's page. - Show resale prices separately and say they're not from the maker. - Give a link for every claim and say when you couldn't confirm something. - Don't call a store or book anything for me. Checkpoint: Show me the maker's buying rules first, and wait for me to say whether they rule anything out. If you get stuck: If you can't find stock information, say so and tell me how to get alerts or book an appointment instead. Verify before you finish: Recheck that each link opens to the page you describe and that prices are current. Output: A short table of where to buy, what's required, the travel distance and price, with links. Done when: I know exactly what I'd have to do to buy one and whether it's worth the trip.
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Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses had been sold out since September 30, 2025, and blogger Joe ('bookofjoe') had found nothing through Google. Joe asked Perplexity Pro to help find a place to buy them. It took 'just under 9 minutes' and learned more than hours of Google searching had. The catch: buying required a mandatory in-person demo, and Joe had no interest in driving three hours each way to northern Virginia. One commenter urged suspicion of the AI's answer; Joe replied with Meta's own wording that a demo and fitting appointment is required. On StockX the glasses sold for around $830, against $799 retail.
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What went wrong: The search worked, but Joe didn't buy the glasses because the required demo was three hours away. A commenter doubted the AI's answer, and the results are shown only in a screenshot.
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