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Doesn’t all fsa account cover glasses? Pretty easy to use that for pre tax dollars on eyeware. You can spend it wherever you want.
Not all of us have FSAs. We're both self-employed, no FSA money.
I own exactly one pair of "expensive" glasses that I got from a retail chain and use as my primary pair. I will admit, they are of much higher quality than the glasses that I order online as a back-up. But outside of that pair, I get a print out of my prescription and go to places like www.eyebuydirect.com to get any other pairs. The quality isn't there but we are talking about hundreds of dollars cheaper. And if any…
What have you observed as a quality difference in the EBD pair? Frame construction? Any difference in optical clarity or face fit?
Face fit is tricky, they allow you to select things like your "size" but this is broken down into "small/medium/large" when in reality it needs to take into account things like temple (arm) length, bridge width, etc.
My main pair is perfect because I spent the big bucks on them and had a professional constantly tweaking them, putting them back on my face, tweaking them some more. And that comes with the ability to return to the store and have them do it again for free if I feel like I need to.
Online you won't get any of that, so the fit isn't perfect.
Optical clarity, no complaints. The lenses are good.
But we're talking $500+ vs. $80.
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You can buy frames with glasses in India for less than Rs.800 (less than $10)
I would doubt the quality. A few years back my wife bought a pair (single vision) in China for about $30--excellent at the time but they turned out not to be durable. (She had taken a tumble and smashed her pair.)
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> I don't think that I'd ever pay more than $100 for a frame again. $100 sounds like it's ~10x what the price should actually be for simple plastic shapes, and it's probably more than 100x the actual cost to manufacture them.
I assume that's $100 including the lenses—seems like a reasonable price for something that requires custom high-precision manufacturing, although it would be great for the price to come down even further over time. I have a moderately strong prescription (with slight differences for each eye) and I got the best glasses I've ever had from Zenni for $72.90 + tax. Could have been $60 without a presumably overpriced anti…
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This life hack really isn't necessary, you can just ask for your PD distance and they'll bring out a little machine that measures it. No optometrist has ever been weird about it, a few have even told me a few sites to get cheaper glasses.
My optometrist was weird about it, presumably because he also sells frames and lenses. I went to an optometrist who doesn't sell frames or lenses and she was happy to spend less than a minute to measure my PD. I won't be going back to the former.
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Or you get a single eye exam and call it a day. The results will have your PD, which doesn't change.
Not every opto is always willing to give you your PD. Some like to beat around the bush because they'd rather try to nudge you into buying in store instead.