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bobc

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For years now I've wondered about thes adds you see for online glasses and contacts and after going to my local optomitrist and finding out my new lenses would be over 250.00 with the coatings over $400.00 with frames. I decided to give it a try. I went on clearly contacts.ca with my new pescription on tuesday night ordered a complete set of glasses frames, lenses,coatings came to $98.00 shipped puralator, added an online cupon code for 40% off and free shipping and that knocked the price down to $62.40!! and get this they were dropped off at my door on Friday it only took 3 days to get them. and their perfect.
I'm wondering if I just got lucky or what, anyone else have any experience with online glasses?
ps They also sent me a cupon for a friend to get a complet set of glasses for free except shipping $10.00
 
Its all discontiued stuff with no warrenty or suuport. Your opromitrist or optician can now charge you for any support or adjustments that may be necessary.
 
baloney- the firm i deal with in hk makes the exact same glasses as my local optician-and a DECENT eye exam gives you all the specs you need including the intra - ocular- i usually get 2 pair at once, and since i use aviator style, that's pretty common- the most i've ever paid for an adjustment was 10 bucks, and they carry the EXACT SAME styles as lenscrafters and the rest including wal-mart- moreover, for an extra 10, you get the mineral lenses which are shooting glasses
 
RT said:
Its all discontiued stuff with no warrenty or suuport. Your opromitrist or optician can now charge you for any support or adjustments that may be necessary.
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Big.Hairy.Deal.

You get four or five kicks at the cat to get a pair that works, for the same money they want for a set out the door.

Warranty? Support? It's fricken GLASSES! Not a ####ing Ferrari! You can get a new pair for less than a pair of crappy drug store sunglasses!

I've been wearing glasses for a bunch of years. Lesse. Gotta count on my toes here. Since 1979. Howzat. Had exactly one pair of glasses sent back because they were boogered up (one eye pulled, hard!).

Learn how to adjust them yourself.
Learn how to tighten screws yourself.
Go on, risk it! A walk on the wild side, apparently.

Bend and tweak them so they work for YOU! That's what the dude at the glasses shack is gonna do.

If you have progressives or trifocals, maybe, just maybe, the online place as a first option, may not be the best bet, but for a cheap as dirt spare pair of single vision lenses, Hell Ya!

FWIW, talk nice with the Optometrist when you get your eyes checked up. Get the measurements you need, written down.
Get your Pupillary Distance (PD) written down too.
If you want bifocals or progressives, dig around and find what you need to know for that.

I just had this talk with my Optometrist. Got the written report, too. Her opinion was that I was going to be satisfied with the lenses (wasn't willing to promise I'd like the frames :) ) for a single vision set of glasses, but was not willing to go out on the same limb WRT a set of progressive Bifocals. She figured they were worth spending MY money on, though. :D

Warranty? Worst reason ever, to screw your wallet!

Dealing with Zenni Optical is in my near future. Gonna actually try a set of progressives from them, just to see, I think. A couple spare pairs of shop safety glasses with prescription lenses too.


Cheers
Trev
 
Raton57 said:
How did they measure you for the frames is my guestion and also the width of your focal points.
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Just found a pair on the site with the same width as my old glasses. the distance between pupils is the only measurment that wasent on my perscription, I'd suggest asking for that at your eye exam.
 
RT said:
Its all discontiued stuff with no warrenty or suuport. Your opromitrist or optician can now charge you for any support or adjustments that may be necessary.
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Any frame I ever owned in 34 years was discontinued when I needed parts or warranty work. And if you have hot water and thumbs you dont need an optician.
 
bobc said:
Just found a pair on the site with the same width as my old glasses. the distance between pupils is the only measurment that wasent on my perscription, I'd suggest asking for that at your eye exam.
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^x2. The only pair of glasses I've ever ordered online (polarized prescription) were messed-up because of this detail. The PD (pupil distance) was included when I ordered them, my optometrist here checked them~they were done wrong.

A former colleague of mine has a friend who is an optometrist, but has a shop that makes eyeglasses of every kind. I brought in a quote I got on a pair of glasses from Hakim optical~$398. He gave me the same pair for $112 out the door, and told me he made a little on the deal. It's worth shopping around. Even with my bad (expensive) online experience, I'll be considering that route next time around.
 
I contacted the place online to ask a couple of guestions.Turns out they only have plastic lenses. I would have to check the prices out as I can ruin a pair of plastic lenses in a day. I scratch my glass lenses pretty bad over time as it is. The last place i got glasses was out of province as it was so warrenty work was impossible anyways.
 
Youve got so much to say about I reckon you know.

:stirthepot2::cheers:
trevj said:
Big.Hairy.Deal.

You get four or five kicks at the cat to get a pair that works, for the same money they want for a set out the door.

Warranty? Support? It's fricken GLASSES! Not a f**king Ferrari! You can get a new pair for less than a pair of crappy drug store sunglasses!

I've been wearing glasses for a bunch of years. Lesse. Gotta count on my toes here. Since 1979. Howzat. Had exactly one pair of glasses sent back because they were boogered up (one eye pulled, hard!).

Learn how to adjust them yourself.
Learn how to tighten screws yourself.
Go on, risk it! A walk on the wild side, apparently.

Bend and tweak them so they work for YOU! That's what the dude at the glasses shack is gonna do.

If you have progressives or trifocals, maybe, just maybe, the online place as a first option, may not be the best bet, but for a cheap as dirt spare pair of single vision lenses, Hell Ya!

FWIW, talk nice with the Optometrist when you get your eyes checked up. Get the measurements you need, written down.
Get your Pupillary Distance (PD) written down too.
If you want bifocals or progressives, dig around and find what you need to know for that.

I just had this talk with my Optometrist. Got the written report, too. Her opinion was that I was going to be satisfied with the lenses (wasn't willing to promise I'd like the frames :) ) for a single vision set of glasses, but was not willing to go out on the same limb WRT a set of progressive Bifocals. She figured they were worth spending MY money on, though. :D

Warranty? Worst reason ever, to screw your wallet!

Dealing with Zenni Optical is in my near future. Gonna actually try a set of progressives from them, just to see, I think. A couple spare pairs of shop safety glasses with prescription lenses too.


Cheers
Trev
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