Buying Prescription Eyeglasses Online

[miami_fan]

Does anyone have any experience purchasing prescription eyeglasses online?

How did it work for you?

[Bee]

I've bought probably a dozen pairs of glasses online through Zenni. I've had no problems with quality or anything on any of them (although I had read a few reviews where people had issues before I bought my first pair). I used my old glasses a couple years ago to get the dimensions that worked best for my face and have basically used that as a general guideline to picking glasses. They are so cheap that I treat it like changing underwear now. I rotate through about 5-6 different pair right now. I have my every day glasses, my going out to dinner glasses, my driving glasses, my beach glasses, my glasses when I wear a blue shirt....

[NobodyHere]

Does anyone have any experience purchasing prescription eyeglasses online?

How did it work for you?

I've ordered through glassesusa.com before. Actual quality of the glasses were good. I only found it hard to gauge just how thick the frames on the glasses were.

[SackAttack]

Like NobodyHere, I've purchased through GlassesUSA before. I'd cheerfully recommend them.

[GrantDawg]

My wife is a licensed optician, and these sites makes her pull her hair out. Basically, if you have regular single vision correction and you do not have a strange PD (Pupillary distance), you will probably be ok. If you have a progressive or bi-focal prescription, pay the money to have someone help you.

[Drake]

Our optometrist recommends against them for our kids because of the quality of the glass (i.e., not shatterproof). But when my kids go through half a dozen pairs of glasses a year (each), I'm not paying in-store prices.

(I know, I know. The strong parental argument is to teach them to take better pair of their glasses. Tell you what: you adopt a pair a DCS foster kids and see how well that works out for you, and then we can compare notes.)

ETA: My wife has ordered from both zenni and glassesUSA, and she's been happy with both. Figured I should answer the actual question.