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I go to this place where I can get a $50 eye test before buying them online. Only issue is that the people who do the eye tests leave out the PD number which is kinda important. If you ask them for it, they'll tell you to do it yourself or buy glasses from them. You can measure it yourself instead.
They keep costs down by producing a single, neutral, yet attractive style. You can have just about any color you want and a choice between four sizes.
An engineering friend of mine was helping them improve the recycling process. Once you are done with the glasses, you take them back to Dresden, they grind them down and reuse the plastic in new frames. I'm not sure if they recycle lenses.
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Wow, cannot upvote this comment enough. Super helpfull, thanks! Definetely going to go with uncoated lenses. Will the opticians even know what I'm talking about when I ask for CR39? I have one concern though I'm - 6 Dioptre on each eye. so lens weight has always been an issue for me. even a few grams extra make a big difference. I always go for rectangular low profile lenses with the greatest thickness reduction they…
All glasses are a compromise in some way, so you have to decide which flaws are most tolerable to you. -6 is strong enough correction that I'd seriously consider contact lenses if I needed it. Contact lenses avoid the image distortion and shrinkage you get with glasses, and because they move with your eyes, the image is sharp in all parts of your field of vision. Polycarbonate is IMO a terrible material for correctiv…
Zenni is very good. There is a slight difference in quality between them and the Armani Exchange glasses I got from an optician, but it's not significant. I got a basic pair of black framed rectangular nerd specs for $8 last week, and I'd happily wear them out. Measure the frame of a pair of glasses that looks good on your face and then try to find glasses with those measurements on Zenni.
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> They are so cheap there is no reason not to do it this way. Besides the environmental cost, maybe.
Relative to other things like travel, commuting, home energy usage, electronics, etc, I'm guessing the environmental cost of a pair of glasses is very, very low. It is important to focus on effective actions. For example, a lot of people think that somehow recycling affects climate change, which (AFAIK) is not true in any meaningful sense. That isn't to say one shouldn't recycle -- there are plenty of reasons to do s…
I'm not saying this is the case here because the original pair of glasses can still be used, but isn't avoiding this kind of behaviour a good thing?
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If EssilorLuxottica was an American company the EU would have fined them a few billion dollars, and split them up a long time ago.
I was wondering why the US hasn’t gone after Luxottica, and I’m guessing that’s the answer: US crackdown on Lux will lead to retaliatory action by EU.
The US however slaps huge fines on foreign companies for breaching sanctions or bribery of foreign officials.
In France when we need glasses we have to get a presciption and we can choose the glasses at the optician. The thing is that the optician will not give you a price for a pair until you have given your health insurance details, which allows him to know how much you will get reimbursed. And surprise surprise, the pair of glasses you chose is coincidentally just 5€ cheaper than the max limit paid by your insurance.
3M Virtua Glasses Gray Lens, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006PJHM6/
And these clear $5 ones for wind while biking when it's dark:
3M Virtua Clear Lens, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00166OALC/
Both 3M and Amazon make a profit on these! 3M's cost of goods sold is probably $1.25.
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Such a waste of an education for a job that can be done by someone less trained. The only constraint is regulatory. I get my eye exam checked every year for other more serious and complex diseases so I think there is a role for the more trained medical professionals but these exams need to be disentangled from the expensive professionals. That is the way to bring the costs down to a fraction of what they are...
Is it, though? My ophtalmologist wouldn't only perform measurements to see if my prescription had changed. She would do a proper eye checkup. Retina, pressure and a host of other things. It wasn't expensive. Of course, it was also not in the US. You are only there once a year at most, so it is an opportunity to catch things before they go wrong.