 |
01-28-2018, 08:11 PM
|
#1 | ||
|
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Land O Lakes FL
|
Buying Prescription Eyeglasses Online
Does anyone have any experience purchasing prescription eyeglasses online?
How did it work for you?
__________________
"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946 |
||
|
|
|
01-28-2018, 08:32 PM
|
#2 |
|
Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fairfax, VA
|
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....
|
|
|
|
|
01-28-2018, 08:47 PM
|
#3 | |
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2013
|
Quote:
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.
__________________
"I am God's prophet, and I need an attorney" |
|
|
|
|
01-28-2018, 10:53 PM
|
#4 |
|
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Green Bay, WI
|
Like NobodyHere, I've purchased through GlassesUSA before. I'd cheerfully recommend them.
|
|
|
|
|
01-30-2018, 06:04 AM
|
#5 |
|
World Champion Mis-speller
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Covington, Ga.
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
01-30-2018, 12:11 PM
|
#6 |
|
assmaster
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Bloomington, IN
|
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. Last edited by Drake : 01-30-2018 at 12:13 PM. |
|
|
|
 |
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
|
|
