I feel like a shill any time I recommend them, but Zenni Optical has frames and lenses for like $10 and up. You don’t have to buy lenses and frames from your optometrist’s office you just need them to include the PD measurement on your prescription. There’s a lot of other brands out there that I’m sure are of similar quality and price.
Zenni was a game changer. I could get their top-of-the-line titanium frames with glass and auto-tinting for like $130 from them, or get the most basic birth control plastic frames with acrylic from my optometrist for no less than $900. Most of my glasses from Zenni are $80 or less, and yes, I have to wait 4-6 weeks. The optometrists are super-upset about this, too. Like some refuse to give me my prescription or pupillary distance, with high-pressure sales tactics and dire warnings. I have been told I’d ruin my eyes with “toxic metals” and “frames that will burn sunlight into my face and retinas.”
Well. It’s been nearly 20 years, and none of that has happened.
Yep, this is what I go with. Yeah sure, my insurance doesn’t cover them and they’re a little less durable than the ones I get from the optometrist, but I can buy four pairs and still have not equaled my deductible.
I feel like a shill any time I recommend them, but Zenni Optical has frames and lenses for like $10 and up. You don’t have to buy lenses and frames from your optometrist’s office you just need them to include the PD measurement on your prescription. There’s a lot of other brands out there that I’m sure are of similar quality and price.
Zenni was a game changer. I could get their top-of-the-line titanium frames with glass and auto-tinting for like $130 from them, or get the most basic birth control plastic frames with acrylic from my optometrist for no less than $900. Most of my glasses from Zenni are $80 or less, and yes, I have to wait 4-6 weeks. The optometrists are super-upset about this, too. Like some refuse to give me my prescription or pupillary distance, with high-pressure sales tactics and dire warnings. I have been told I’d ruin my eyes with “toxic metals” and “frames that will burn sunlight into my face and retinas.”
Well. It’s been nearly 20 years, and none of that has happened.
Yep, this is what I go with. Yeah sure, my insurance doesn’t cover them and they’re a little less durable than the ones I get from the optometrist, but I can buy four pairs and still have not equaled my deductible.