Eyeglasses

Fascinated by eyeglasses, since I'm pretty blind without them and hate paying close to $300 or more for glasses if you get them somewhere than Walmart or Costco. Used Zenni a few times, and found a U.S. frame manufacturers that is reasonable that also grinds lenses (less than $150 for frames you'd recognize,).

Thoughts on eyeglasses and where to buy them. Used FramesDirect for my latest pair.

 

Zenni for life. Cheap shit is fine when you can replace it for $10

 

Get a job with a vision plan and it's much cheaper than $300.

 

Guangzhou. Amazing glasses market. I had a pair for every day of the week. I stepped on one pair and broke it recently and was bummed. At $40, it was the most expensive pair I got while there. I miss it, especially since glasses are so expensive in Istanbul.

That said, though, my Walmart pair is still my favorite

 

Distance or reading glasses?

Please don't tell me a lot of shitheads are on our nation's roads with Walmart distance glasses.

 

What's wrong with Walmart glasses (not the OTC readers)?

 

Dollar store 1.50+ readers. My distance vision is still fine.

 

I know they sell frames and some have vision centers, but you actually go somewhere else and get a lens prescription, right?

What I'm driving at is that you just don't buy some pre-made distance glasses off the shelf like you do with reading glasses. I've got enough to worry about with drunks, users and texters on the highways.

 

There are optometrists working in Walmart Vision Centers. All the lab work is done off site, though, so it's not like you get a prescription and buy glasses off-the-shelf. I think the glasses are already put into frames at the lab, so the in-store employees just do adjustments and repairs.

 

My vision sucks. Can't see clearly more than a foot or two in front of me without my glasses. I'm at the age where I need progressive lenses.
I don't mess with my glasses, I go to the local optometrist to buy my glasses, knowing everything is going to be done right.

 

Current glasses are Etnias that cost around 220$ after insurance. I buy glasses once every few year and contacts every year. Sign up or promotive and buy glasses from Smith Optics.