Great Cheap Glasses Hunt

frx209

I love Martins Money Tips, use it all the time, but please be careful when buying spectacles on line. There is so much that needs to be correct. Heights, pupil distance, bridge size, prisms - the list is endless.

Is your sight really worth a saving of £50 per year. Save your money on everything else, not your sight - it is too precious

PS I am not in optics, my wife is, but only as an employee, nothing for us to gain here.

The_Goose

How do you know what suits you, if you can't try them on??

It's bad enough at a "real" optician, and it's not much of a cost saving if you look hideous in them when they arrive

brinky_2

I too had problems with selectspecs.com. Glasses arrived without optical coating. Eventually managed to persuade them of that fact (despite the fact it is obvious when you look at them). They wouldnt replace the glasses until they received the original frame. After a long wait my original frame arrived back with coated lenses and the nose bridge smashed.

I did try to talk to the boss and constructively suggest how quality control might be improved but they seemed totally disinterested to me.

Perhaps one to avoid.

As Ive posted before https://www.spex4less.co.uk are excellent and offer a swift service (together with free AR coating).

uoschemist

I have just bought some varifocals from 39dollarglasses.com. They were a complicated prescription with each eye different but even so I got then within a week and so much cheaper than I would have paid in an opticians.

The site is dead easy to use and the quality of the specs are great.

I would buy from there again. :T

brinky_2

Happy to help. If you have any questions on your glasses you can phone spex4less and speak to Mark the optician and owner. He is very helpful and responds very quickly to email enquiries too. Have a look at the guarantee on the website which i think is very generous.

By the way do you think selectspecs read this website?

Former_MSE_Forum_Manager

I have removed several posts and would remind all users that any complaint you have with any other members need ONLY be directed to abuse@moneysavingexpert.com

dieseldog

I phoned selectspecs the optician rang back later and took me through prescription details.He took my order over the phone and 6 working days later specs arrived titainium rimless £40.95 anti scratch and anti glare lenses included,first class service from start to finish.

Tootiemoon

Karnam wrote:

I have a specs question.

As a 9month pregnant girl I've found my eyesight has detoriated really really badly.

Please give yourself time before you sucumb to a new prescription. When I looked into having laser surgery I was told that I wasn't suitable because I was still nursing my baby. They want 9 months post pregnancy OR 6 months post breastfeeding before they consider your eyes stable.
These darn hormones play havoc.

Try this concept on for size. Why do we consider our eyes to be unlike other organs and incapable of healing themselves. Your womb has changed enormously, but will eventually go back to it's normal size. Give your eyes a chance to heal as well. I know it can seem difficult with a small baby, but relax and trust your body. If you get a stronger prescription, you will just be 'training' your eyes to see to that prescription.

I never did have surgery, and now am going totally without my glasses and trying to practice natural vision. It took ages to actually take my glasses off (my prescription is/was a -5) but when I finally managed, it turns out that I can get along just fine. I wear my glasses now for driving, and very little else. I've pretty much stopped gitting headaches too!
I'm reading this forum, because I'm finding my current specs too strong now and want to get a weaker prescription for driving.

purplepatch

Tootiemoon wrote:

I never did have surgery, and now am going totally without my glasses and trying to practice natural vision. It took ages to actually take my glasses off (my prescription is/was a -5) but when I finally managed, it turns out that I can get along just fine. I wear my glasses now for driving, and very little else.

Can I just clarify you are -5 shortsighted in both eyes and you only wear your glasses for driving???

That's virtually the same as me and I couldn't contemplate doing any more than groping my way to the loo in the night without putting glasses on or contacts in! You actually go out and about with your normal life, crossing roads etc like that?

HeyBigSpender

Tootiemoon wrote:

Please give yourself time before you sucumb to a new prescription. ...These darn hormones play havoc.

I agree! My eyesight went beserk when I was pregnant. It got much worse, but stabilized back to my old prescription about one year afterwards.