<p>Have you ordered glasses online? We’ve had success ordering contacts online but I’m wondering if glasses are trickier. D knows which frames she wants and has tried them on in a store. It looks like we could save a decent amount of money online.</p>
<p>D did years ago from England - she had to get fitted for something about the focus point- she went to an eye glasses place and had them measure her eyes. It worked out fine. She got both the brand frame and the lens. It was so much cheaper that it was worth a try.</p>
<p>My S has ordered glasses online from China for low prices. Personally, I’m satisfied with the prices and quality AND service I get at Costco and buy all my glasses and contacts from them. It feels wrong to have their opticians do all the measuring and then buy on-line.</p>
<p>My (former) optician did nothing at all regarding my glasses. He had one of his front office people try to tell me that my two very different prescriptions for driving and reading and two wildly different eyes required two sets of glasses, with special glass and only in the most expensive frames they carried, at roughly $300 a pair. I got my prescriptions and walked out. I have ordered many pair from Zenni Optical, without special glass and without the $300 frames with great success. They start at $6.95 a pair and the site walks you through all the measurements you need. My (former) optician got his payment for the eye exam. He didn’t need the ginormous marked up fees for the glasses. Anyhoo, I have turned many people onto Zenni and no one I know has ever been disappointed.</p>
<p>My sister has used Zenni for her whole family with success. I get mine and kids’ at Walmart.</p>
<p>My son has used Warby Parker and had very good success with them. He needed to get them adjusted once they arrived, but our local optician did it for no charge. Warby Parker was nice because they send you several pairs to try and then give you a prepaid voucher to send them back. </p>
<p>I am now a “order on line” convert. I have used Zenni and Coastal. Great glasses and EXTREMELY affordable. The last quote at an optical place was 400.00 for plain progressive lenses with my insurance plan. Absurd!
Now I have progressives, antiglare, polycarbonate(thin), transition lenses that cost 100.00 from Coastal and a pair from Zenni that has everything except the transition option for 60.00. Ordering was step by step, easy and dont need to go to a place to measure the eye distance. They tell you how to do it. But the next eye exam I have, I will ask the optometrist to measure for me so at least I have it done professionally!</p>
<p>I ordered my last glasses from Fetch Eyewear. They are a little more expensive than Zenni but are a small business that donates their profits to charity - and still far cheaper than an optician’s office. I had also tried them on in person first.</p>
<p>Next eye exam, be sure to have your eye doctor measure your PD, distance between pupils, and have doctor write it on your prescription. Usually they don’t put that measurement on prescription because some doctors want you to buy from their eyeglasses store and not online.</p>
<p>We have ordered glasses through Warby Parker. I think you can get three pairs of frames sent to you at a time to try. They have stores in both New York City and Los Angeles that we have been to prior to ordering so we didn’t have to have frames sent. The glasses are $95 and they seen to hold up well so far.</p>
<p>Zenni’s website explains how to measure PD, It’s actually quite easy. I’ll have to look at some of the other sites mentioned but I don’t consider $95 to be a great bargain. </p>
<p>We’ve used both Zenni and Coastal and have been very happy with both. My D watches for sales and purchases fun colored frames when they are super cheap.</p>
<p>DH got a pair from Zenni for something like $10. Very happy.</p>
<p>Two of my daughters have used Warby Parker with great success. My youngest tried it because she just couldn’t find the frame she wanted anywhere IRL. She didn’t like the way the glasses fit and said they distorted her vision. She ended up sending them back and choosing one of the less preferred pairs from the optician. The optometrist suggested that the warping and blurring she experienced was due to her pretty severe correction. He tweaked it downward once she explained the problem. I’m not buying it because one of my other daughters has a similar correction and had no problem. </p>
<p>costal.com has a free first pair for first time purchasers special going on right now. Details are on their home page. I believe you may have to pay for shipping and the ‘free’ part may apply to a basic lens. </p>
<p>I have ordered maybe 20 pairs of glasses from Zenni. One of my first pairs was $6.95 total. I wanted to see what I could get, so I ordered a basic pair with no frills (no lens coatings, tintings, etc) and what I got was a great pair of glasses. </p>
<p>I have made some mistakes. They give you the frame measurements and I have mistakenly purchased glasses that were too short for my big fat head, and I bought a pair of blue-tinted sunglasses - blue is a terrible color to tint your glasses, but the cost of making a mistake is so low I don’t really care. :D</p>