Great deals on Eye Glasses!
- Thread starter gyrafoam
- Start date
mistereric
Well-known member
I've used Zenni. They've been great!
xraytech
Well-known member
Thanks for teh link to this site. I just ordered 3 pairs of frames, pics to follow.
Sam
Sam
xraytech
Well-known member
Here is the 2nd pair
xraytech
Well-known member
Here is the 3rd pair
sudsmaster
Well-known member
It does look like a great site. I'm tired of paying $200 for a pair of glasses - esp when I go through a set of lenses about once every year or two (scratches from working the yard or in the shop). I get progressive lenses which is the majority of the cost, but with Zenni I could get glasses and frames for the cost of just the frames (or less) at most other optometrists.
gyrafoam
Well-known member
Well, so how do you go about getting them fitted?
Walk into any store and see about getting them "adjusted"?
Wouldn't it be obvious what you were up to?
Walk into any store and see about getting them "adjusted"?
Wouldn't it be obvious what you were up to?
estatesale_gary
Well-known member
My partner has been in eyewear for years
He designs eyewear for a company owned by one of our good friends. They specialize in higher end reading glasses. They are doing very well and have a strong following of customers who buy the glasses and have them fit with prescription lenses. Also - regarding adjustments - most optical outlets that sell/fit glasses are usually happy to adjust your frames free of charge. Now, if you showed up with all 3 of the frames that you just bought, that might be a different story.
http://www.eyebobs.com/
He designs eyewear for a company owned by one of our good friends. They specialize in higher end reading glasses. They are doing very well and have a strong following of customers who buy the glasses and have them fit with prescription lenses. Also - regarding adjustments - most optical outlets that sell/fit glasses are usually happy to adjust your frames free of charge. Now, if you showed up with all 3 of the frames that you just bought, that might be a different story.
http://www.eyebobs.com/
sudsmaster
Well-known member
Don't have a fit
Fitting metal frame glasses is pretty easy. Plastic frames require heating to fit... but I don't see why dipping the temple ear pieces into some boiling water wouldn't do pretty much the same thing. The nose pieces can be a bit tricky - I've seen opticians use a special kind of pliers to grab the fitting so that they don't break it off, but I've not had a problem just using my fingers to bend the nose piece into proper position.
Over the years I've gotten to know pretty well how my glasses need to be adjusted to fit correctly. I confess to getting a bit impatient when an optician re-invents the wheel for me ;-).
Fitting metal frame glasses is pretty easy. Plastic frames require heating to fit... but I don't see why dipping the temple ear pieces into some boiling water wouldn't do pretty much the same thing. The nose pieces can be a bit tricky - I've seen opticians use a special kind of pliers to grab the fitting so that they don't break it off, but I've not had a problem just using my fingers to bend the nose piece into proper position.
Over the years I've gotten to know pretty well how my glasses need to be adjusted to fit correctly. I confess to getting a bit impatient when an optician re-invents the wheel for me ;-).
xraytech
Well-known member
I am lucky in the fact that when I get new glasses they usually fit properly and dont need adjusted, at least until I fall asleep with them on and wake up with my glasses under me.
Similar threads
