Great Cheap Glasses Hunt

Clowance

Finally after shopping around I got varifocals from Specsavers. If you had the basic frame and basic varifocal lenses, it would have been £79. I wanted glass lenses which are hard to get hold of these days, chose a £39 frame and the lenses were another £74 making £113. Well chuffed, cheaper than glasses direct who were the only online option (apparently they send an optician round to measure you) but their plastic lens option was £95 plus the frame I imagine. And their frame choice for varifocals was abysmal,mostly for men. So specsavers cheaper/better for once.

Noticed they measure your Pupillary distance with an electronic gadget and also use a sort of special ruler thing. This is what worried me about online, the only pair I have ordered online dont feel right (and this was single vision).

Anyway, dont entirely give up on the high street, it just may be cheaper.

robgb

If you're on a budget then you'll appreciate Glasses Direct https://www.glassesdirect.co.uk

The glasses seem of a very high quality, but also very cheap. You can upload your pic to see how they would look, so much less embarrassing then doing it in a shop when you can do it in privacy on your own!

I paid under £40 for a nice pair of rimless specs, now used as my main pair.
Also, big quidco savings!

Glasses Direct - would highly recommend!

Cheers,
Robert Browning.

rose28454

can anyone tell me the name of the online glasses store that sends someone to your home to measure you for Varifocals?

finallydebtfree!!

if anyone lives near salisbury/southampton then there are two places which sell glasses at trade prices.
The one in Salisbury is called sales optical services and the one in Southampton is called city optical.
Sorry havent got anymore information to hand but if you pm me any questions then I will try and find out for you

finallydebtfree!!

Sales optical services address is:
8 Ashfield Rd Trading Estate Salisbury
Wiltshire SP2 7HL
01722 331544
would be best to ring this one first to check its open to the public, pretty sure it is though

City Optical
28 City Industrial Park
Southampton, SO15 1HA
023 8063 1716

Clowance

rose28454 wrote:

can anyone tell me the name of the online glasses store that sends someone to your home to measure you for Varifocals?

http://www.glassesdirect.co.uk/

Janeyjaz

Hi, I ordered glasses online after having a free eye test from Boots, the glasses arrived this morning, but my vision in them is worse than by using my 1.25 off the peg reading glasses, I am struggling to read things with these glasses, which I can read really easily with non presciption ones. Who do I need to contact?

redeyez

Its utterly impossible to check the fit of your spectacles. Its like buying shoes without knowing your size?

mishkanorman

redeyez wrote:

Its utterly impossible to check the fit of your spectacles. Its like buying shoes without knowing your size?

Its nothing like, and actually most people that buy on-line have worn specs before so have an idea of what size/shape etc suits and fits.

Most specs are made in only 2 or 3 sizes anyway and the main variation comes from the style. Once you have purchased the specs any opticians will be able to adjust them if they need it.


mishka

donglefan

Is there an online optician who will put in 1.74 high index plastic lenses with all coatings, in existing frames for less than the £230 I'm quoted by my optician?