New glasses
Written on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 1:36 PM by jkeyes0
The wife and I went for our vision checkup recently. It had been almost 2 years since we were last checked and got glasses and I kept thinking about the outrageous price we always have to pay. $300-400 for a halfway decent looking pair of glasses is just unacceptable!
This got me thinking: I buy almost everything I need online, why not glasses too? I did some research, and thanks to Ira over at http://www.glassyeyes.com/ I decided to give a couple of online retailers a shot.
The wife and I placed our first order from http://www.coastalcontacts.com. I ordered a pair of Ltede 1009's:
and she ordered the Coach Gretta's (no longer available):
Total spent? $165, where we would have easily spent $600-800 in-store. We both opted for the thinner, polycarbonate lenses, which made my glasses $31 and hers $134.
Thinking that the polycarb lenses would take a lot longer to manufacture and wanting a pair sooner, I ordered a pair of Kam Dhillon 3010's:
Not the best looking glasses, but for $6.95 (free shipping using code "FREESHIP") it's hard to complain.
I expected it to take longer, quite frankly. We placed our orders late on the evening of May 6th and during the day on May 7th, and the second order shipped on May 12th, arriving today. The first order should be here tomorrow, hopefully, if not Monday.
I've got to say, I'm definitely pleased with these frames. I expected the lenses to be much thicker as well, but they're not bad at all! Here's the glasses sitting on our couch:
and here they are on my ugly mug!
The prescription is nice and clear, which is all I can ask for. It may not be 100% accurate under an optician's measuring tools, but it's good enough for me, and excellent for $7.
I'll post updates as I receive the rest of the glasses. We also ordered some generic sunglasses from http://www.zennioptical.com, so I'll post when we get those as well.
