Also check the Hong Kong vendors, http://www.optical4less.com/ (whom we have bought from), and http://www.zennioptical.com/ (we have friends who like them).   It takes about 3 weeks shipping time.

If you have a script, you can get your glasses online. I've purchased from coastal, zenni, glasses.com, and maybe one other. You can try them on virtually (by uploading a picture) and so far, we've been happy. We have a simple prescription, and purchased glasses for around $15-$20 bucks a pair. Before we went on the road, we purchased around 3-4 pair for each of us, we keep one in the toad, one by the nightstand and a spare or two if we need them. I also got a couple pair of prescription sunglasses...not as cheap, but lots cheaper than the store. If you have a script, make sure it includes all the details, like PD.

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The Restless Youngs wrote:

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If you have a script, you can get your glasses online. I've purchased from coastal, zenni, glasses.com, and maybe one other. You can try them on virtually (by uploading a picture) and so far, we've been happy. We have a simple prescription, and purchased glasses for around $15-$20 bucks a pair. Before we went on the road, we purchased around 3-4 pair for each of us, we keep one in the toad, one by the nightstand and a spare or two if we need them. I also got a couple pair of prescription sunglasses...not as cheap, but lots cheaper than the store. If you have a script, make sure it includes all the details, like PD.

-- Edited by The Restless Youngs on Sunday 29th of November 2015 10:50:07 PM

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15-20 per pair and left at nite stand sounds like ordinary reading glasses  not  prescription for distance etc  

 

Forgot to mention last time I need glasses and eye exam COSTCO   prices and quality were top notch. warrant unbeatable   

I got Italian made flex arm frames,anti glare,transition prescription glasses for 150$

-- Edited by ticat900 on Thursday 3rd of December 2015 09:26:11 AM

This goes back a couple of decades, but I found that if one has bifocals or trifocals, one can have problems with those 1-hour places.  Back in the early '90's, I went to them for about the third or fourth time and they got me my glasses.  When I got to work the next day, products in our display cases looked smaller than I remembered them being.  3 trips back to the 1-hour place and they finally just got me glasses that were my old prescription, which was still an issue because of a change in my glasses.  Since then, I've never used anyone but an optometrist that will give a more thorough examination with test fanyor all three "elements" of the trifocals.

Now that I've had cataract surgery and have each eye focusing at a different distance, I've had glasses done for specific uses, such as one pair that are bifocals for when I'm driving at night and a pair of single vision glasses for when I'm shooting, either with firearms or taking photos of subjects at a distance.

Since my original issues with the 1-hour places, I've never recommended any of those places.

Terry

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If you have a script, you can get your glasses online. I've purchased from coastal, zenni, glasses.com, and maybe one other. You can try them on virtually (by uploading a picture) and so far, we've been happy. We have a simple prescription, and purchased glasses for around $15-$20 bucks a pair. Before we went on the road, we purchased around 3-4 pair for each of us, we keep one in the toad, one by the nightstand and a spare or two if we need them. I also got a couple pair of prescription sunglasses...not as cheap, but lots cheaper than the store. If you have a script, make sure it includes all the details, like PD.

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15-20 per pair and left at nite stand sounds like ordinary reading glasses  not  prescription for distance etc  

 

 Nope, not readers.  We leave by the nightstand to see the TV.  Sales section of those sites, combined with a promo code and you can get them pretty cheap.  Coastal used to offer first pair free.  

 

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Be getting my new ones from the VA soon!!! Yay!

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  Well; would you know that I had a VA appt on the 9th of Dec. with my Cardiologist in the AM. My new glasses arrived by mail on the 10th. Will be bringing them to a local optical shop for an adjustment as the VA is a 40 mile round trip!. 

Leslie just got her newest ones at Costco in Edmonton and then ordered from zenni to compare. Really pleased with Costco service etc and the zenni ones don't have progressive tint but are great too. Had to adjust and fit them herself. Of course Costco did fitting and a second adjustment on the arms for free.