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One Dollar Glasses – Help for 150M people
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#72Why aren't these kind of hardware driven campaign fully open source? Why is there not a pdf with plans and clear cut instructions on how to build the wire bender (which at 2500 Euros is absolutely insane)? I understand using the money for funding more glasses makes sense, but in reality if your mission is for this hardware breakthrough to improve everyone's life all around the world, why hide and hog the design? I'd…
Very nice! I only wish your web site had og metadata so that I could socially share your site on FB, LinkedIn, etc. and have the title, description, and preview image show up in my posts.
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#73Glasses are a total racket. Purchasing your glasses online is many, many times cheaper than going to Lenscrafters or basically any other brick & mortar store in the US. I've been buying online for years and they're every bit as good as usual ones. You do need your pupillary distance, but you either measure this yourself with the help of a friend, or ask your optometrist. If they refuse or tell you how evil buying gla…
I agree that mid-lower-range shops are a racket: however, don't discount the luxury and privilege of high-end options of dedicated professionals. My glasses cost in total almost $1000. I wear them almost every waking moment, they are exceptional designer hand-made frames from France with Zeiss lenses and Japanese transition technology, and the optometrist is top-of-the-line who also does an eye cancer check each year…
At that price, I would consider laser surgery.
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#74My glasses cost $39 from one of the many online cheap glasses makers. So now I have more money to donate to the $1 glasses campaign :) Last time I got glasses, I tried a test, I bought the $300 glasses from my eye doctor ("only" $200 after insurance), and I bought a pair of $39 glasses online. I found no difference between the two other than price (and the ones I bought online arrived by mail the day before the expen…
Last time I got a new prescription I asked them to include the PD number and they refused. They would only give that to me if I bought glasses through them. I couldn't even pay them for just the measurement (I suggested $10-$20). It's easy enough to measure myself, so that's what I did. My glasses were $45 and he said his costs were more than twice that. Where's all that money going?
My optometrist refused to do it. The ophthalmologist stormed out of his office, gave them a mean look, and did it for me.
Re: One Dollar Glasses – Help for 150M people
#75Glasses are a total racket. Purchasing your glasses online is many, many times cheaper than going to Lenscrafters or basically any other brick & mortar store in the US. I've been buying online for years and they're every bit as good as usual ones. You do need your pupillary distance, but you either measure this yourself with the help of a friend, or ask your optometrist. If they refuse or tell you how evil buying gla…
I order my glasses from Zenni, but I don't think it's for everyone. For one thing, they always locate the pupil at the exact midpoint of the lens. Unless you wear very small frames, your pupils are probably located somewhat higher in the lens when you are wearing the glasses in the most comfortable or attractive manner. This can result in double vision, chromatic anomalies, headaches, and worse. It's far more likely…
Sort of off topic, but the contact rash sounds familiar to me. It may be 'nickel allergy', it runs in my family. Any watches, bracelets, glasses, belts with nickel in them touching skin for a while seems to cause it.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I got a new prescription I asked them to include the PD number and they refused. They would only give that to me if I bought glasses through them. I couldn't even pay them for just the measurement (I suggested $10-$20). It's easy enough to measure myself, so that's what I did. My glasses were $45 and he said his costs were more than twice that. Where's all that money going?
I presume you'll be finding a new optometrist for next time. I would have refused to pay, since they weren't giving the full service. In Australia the eye test is covered by Medicare, so if they refused to supply it you could complain to the government insurer and there would be trouble.
According to my optometrist, the PD measurement isn't part of the prescription. The prescription documents the lens, the PD is needed only for glasses.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I got a new prescription I asked them to include the PD number and they refused. They would only give that to me if I bought glasses through them. I couldn't even pay them for just the measurement (I suggested $10-$20). It's easy enough to measure myself, so that's what I did. My glasses were $45 and he said his costs were more than twice that. Where's all that money going?
>It's easy enough to measure myself Do you have any recommendations about this? It's the kind of thing I'm a bit nervous about searching as I can see many, many ways I might accidentally read the optician equivalent of an anti-vaccination blog.
The other comment measured the ruler that Zenni will send you. That's what I used.
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warby parker frames look trendy but they're pretty low quality cheap plastic frames, and they're dramatically overpriced compared to comparable glasses from zenni or similar
So you're saying that the glasses from all these places are cheap/poor quality? That is disappointing.
i can't say that they are all categorically low quality, but you're obviously not getting premium frames for very low prices. imo it's worth dishing for a pair of spares at the least, though -- but probably not at warby parker prices
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#79Glasses are a total racket. Purchasing your glasses online is many, many times cheaper than going to Lenscrafters or basically any other brick & mortar store in the US. I've been buying online for years and they're every bit as good as usual ones. You do need your pupillary distance, but you either measure this yourself with the help of a friend, or ask your optometrist. If they refuse or tell you how evil buying gla…
I would love to buy glasses on-line, but have a simple issue of having an absolute massive head. Unless I go in and physically try on a pair, I just have to assume it won't fit (usually the width of face, but temple length is also a pain...) :(
I also have a wide face. I used Warby Parker's home try-on and ended up finding a pair I liked that was 145mm in width. A lot of their "wide" frames didn't fit me either, and the one I chose was probably one of four or five in total they offered that fit.
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#80This is obviously a really admirable cause, and as someone who wears contacts, I couldn't imagine not having access to corrective lenses.
Just a word of caution to anyone considering making a donation, their donations page is not served over HTTPS. Their unsecured page renders an iframe [1] from their payment processor that is served over HTTPS though. I haven't tested it, but you should be able to make a donation securely via that link.
I reached out to them to let them know and offered some assistance.
[1] https://secure.fundraisingbox.com/app/payment?hash=UuYpAgAJ0...