As the title asks. I have an up to date prescription, where’s the best place to order from?
I just did some research, bought and received them. I chose vision direct.
VisionDirect
https://www.visiondirect.com.au/
Lets you filter by color, material Lenses can be: close, far, computer (work) and progressive
Frames display measurements
Has an app to extract prescription from your own glasses
based on uk
Basic glasses start from $12 per glass + $14 shipping
Clearly
Good cheap fast but it’s always down
Firmoo
Doesn’t have enough glasses around $10-$20
eye buy direct
black/gray, I can’t handle the lack of colors. you must use the color filter.
Based in US so no thx
I bought mine from Zenni. Pretty good, I can recommend. Though, not sure how much the prices have increased with tariffs. Assuming you’re from the US of A this might affect you.
I’ve been buying glasses online for decades, and have never had a problem with quality. Or really any problem at all. I’ve used EyeBuyDirect, Zenni, and others, and have always been happy. In fact, I would much rather buy glasses online than in person.
Most of them have clever websites that let you virtually try on the frames and get an accurate view of how they will look. The frames are just fine, and the lenses are cut correctly and polished. My grandmother and my aunt were both opticians, and I have been wearing glasses since I was a kid, so I know a little about quality.
I’ve had great service from goggles4u.com. It’s been years though since I got LASIK.
Zenni. I’ve got dozens of glasses from them. Every year if I’ve got money leftover in my health flex spending account I buy glasses. Fashion tint, sunglasses, just for fun, etc. It’s never a waste.
For Canadians, there’s Kits.ca.
Of course, there’s Clearly.ca, EyeBuyDirect.com and about twenty-seven more brands and divisions of international monopoly EssilorLuxottica as well, but it’s better for everyone if we stop giving them money.
They’re responsible for raising the prices across the industry of what used to be low cost, high quality glasses.
For the curious, Wikipedia articles aren’t very up-to-date or consistent with the common information across the company, divisions and mergers but this one shows the most detail about the criticism.
I’ll second Zenni, been ordering from them for 10+ years.
What’s your location? I usually buy from ExtraOptical, happy with them.
I like Warby Parker. They’re pricey compared to the other websites mentioned here, but I love the styles. You can order a home try-on kit for free before making a purchase.
Never used it, but https://www.specsavers.co.uk/glasses says it has online ordering.
Prices are ridiculous though. I mean I got my last set from there because they had an offer to get prescription sun glasses too, but in the past I’ve just searched cheap glasses online and had some for 10% the cost at the high street.
Quality isn’t as great as say designer frames which I have now, but also I seem to keep wearing my cheap ones as they’re more comfortable for my head.
I used EyeBuyDirect.
But their no-name brand frames suck ass and fall apart quickly, you’re gonna need to pay more for the quality frames so they don’t fall apart in like 3 months.
I don’t think online glasses stores are gonna save you much money, its more like a convienience thing, so that you don’t have to wait in a physical store. You’re still sacrificing quality and durability with price. Those cheap frames will fall apart much sooner than the expensive ones.
But, I use them because they have some frames that is ready to ship within 2 days, great for when my glasses break and I needed one like… ASAP.
Stores take like 1 to 2 weeks, I hate that, takes forever.
I don’t think there’s a “best” way, its just what’s convienient to you.
Zenni Optical and EyeBuyDirect are the most common ones I read about on the internet, and the top 2 search results, but since Zenni didn’t have 2 day shipping option, EyeBuyDirect is what I chose to go with.
EyeBuyDirect has like a one time free replacement for defects. You take photos of the broken glasses, send it to them, and pay shipping, and they send you new ones, they didn’t even want back the broken ones (I mean, its not must use to them anyways). (But don’t choose the same frames if you are gonna get a replacement)
Zeelool has some more left field choices if you’re into that. Otherwise I second eyebuydirect
Can I interest you in contacts instead?
- Select.
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