<p>My son’s ophthalmologist told him to search on-line for the best price for his new contact lenses (kind of strange–he has always sold them in the past). Anyway, this task has been delegated to me, and as I have had a couple of bad on-line purchase experiences lately, I am hoping someone can provide me with some suggestions for sources (and sources, if any, to avoid).</p>
<p>Thank you for being the source for finding out anything.</p>
<p>We’ve been ordering contact lenses online for years from Coastal Contacts—never had a problem with them.</p>
<p>I’ve used VisionDirect twice. Prompt service, good prices. If you have a Discover card and go to VisionDirect’s website through your online Discover account’s partner shopping, 15% of the the purchase price will be credited to your rewards.</p>
<p>I use 1 800 contact lens. Free shipping and they have discounts for various lenses.</p>
<p>4 boxes of optix costs me 99.99 with free shipping.</p>
<p>We also use VisionDirect.com. Have used them twice now with no problems. Fast shipping, the best prices I could find. You can do a search for Vision Direct coupons and come up with some codes. I also think they offer 15% off for new customers. I just paid about $103.00 for 8 boxes of Acuvue 2.</p>
<p>My son uses 1-800 contacts. For glasses, he uses Zennioptical.com. Great prices. $30 for rimless, hingeless glasses. And they’re perfect. His ophthalmologist’s office checked the prescription, and it was exact.</p>
<p>We’ve also used Coasta for contactsl. No problems.</p>
<p>Have used both VisionDirect and 1800contacts. Good prices, quick shipping, no problems.</p>
<p>I’ve used lensmart.com, and I think I got 7% cash back by clicking through eBates. It was slightly less expensive than 1800contacts before the cash rebate.</p>
<p>1800contacts has a price match guarantee, so I usually just Google around for the website with the cheapest price (usually ends up being a sketchy-looking website that I wouldn’t trust giving my credit card). Then, I buy through 1800contacts and email to get a price match, since I know their site is secure.</p>
<p>We used Vision Direct, and they were good.</p>
<p>If you don’t feel like buying on line, Land stores" will often match the best on-line price you can find if you bring a “shopping cart” printout to them</p>
<p>Me too for 1-800 contacts…never had any problem with them.</p>
<p>Another 1-800 contacts buyer here. We got a great price for D but I do recall that to get that great price I had to get a year’s worth at one time!</p>
<p>My son also uses 1-800-contacts - no complaints, good prices and fast shipping.</p>
<p>1-800Contacts for my son too. His ophthalmologist set this up for us and “they” check with them about updates. It’s about $1.00 a day (I think).</p>
<p>I work in the business and I suggest that if you order from anyone always check the expiration date. I have had patients come in with eye infections because the contact lenses were expired by 1 year.</p>
<p>I have a weird story about 1800contacts - We received a shipment, and in the shipping box was someone’s dentures!!! I’m not kidding! I called the company and they were completely flabbergasted. </p>
<p>We switched to visiondirect. By the way, if you don’t use the website ebates, you really should - you get a 7.5% rebate on all contacts ordered through their website. There’s tons of other online stores connected to ebates, also.</p>
<p>1-800-Contacts is owned by Walmart. You can get the same prices at Walmart as you can from the website. I was told that Walmart has much better prices now than before they merged with 1-800</p>
<p>I have always thought that prices were best at Costco. That’s where I always bought mine until we moved away.</p>
<p>Another thumbs up for 1800contacts.com–and they continue to improve the ease of using their website.</p>
<p>Ok so i have to ask what will seem like a stupid question: but I dont live in the States anymore. Hiow does it work with the prescription and the online ordering? do you still need a prescription for the contacts? Can you just order them?</p>