Great Cheap Glasses Hunt

donglefan

Another specs question. If you have ocular hypertension and need annual checks to monitor it, are you entitled to free eye tests? If you are, how do you access them?

nemo2

donglefan wrote:

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?

Try https://www.nuglasses.co.uk they should be able to do it. I've had great service from them and can highly recommend them.

geejaygee

Sorry if this repeats earlier stuff. If you're looking for cheap single vision lenses with all the coatings, then http://www.goggles4u.com/ charges
$25.99 or less than £15 with free shipping per pair, including rimless and titanium bendables. I used to used https://www.optical4less.com, but they disappeared for a while - a little more expensive, but better quality.

creddish

geejaygee wrote:

Sorry if this repeats earlier stuff. If you're looking for cheap single vision lenses with all the coatings, then http://www.goggles4u.com/ charges
$25.99 or less than £15 with free shipping per pair, including rimless and titanium bendables.

I have used goggles4u recently. They were delivered directly from Pakistan, took just over 2 weeks from date of order. Quality was good and they were very well packed. They were titanium rimless frames with tinted Bifocal lenses for approx £25 inclusive. They are extremely light weight.

Colin

No_Future

My local TK Maxx has just got in loads of designer reading glasses for under £20 from £100+.

Last year there was a £10 off coupon for glasses at Boots in the Times around June/July.

jstyles

I saw some reading glasses in the 99p Store in Liverpool last week! Also, I think Costco do them at £10 for 3 pairs, if you need to a bit more upmarket!;)

bluu2k

robgb wrote:

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.

Absolutely agree with Robert on "Try Online" function at https://www.glassesdirect.co.uk.

We had fun this afternoon to try various frames for me. My OH and DD were so pleased and excited in helping me choose the right one. I just went a further step to order a "Try at home" -- 2.5 quids for this service they said, but will cost me less with Lloyds's Save The Change :j

I seem to go ahead with the one all other family members fancy, just wait to see the final try with real frame when they arrive, hopefully next week. :A

Cheers,

3plus1

I contacted Goggles4u because they say they provide "High Index" lenses, but don't reveal what this means, and I need my lenses to be flattened by at least 25%, given that I have a high prescription. I asked how much they would thin the lenses.

They said, tell us your prescription. I told them. They said that they could make me glasses, and the lenses would be "of normal thickness".

What is that meant to mean?

mishkanorman

Goggles4u appear to offer a random lens option, ive chosen the standard over 3 pairs now and each pair was substantially thinner than 'standard'

All i can suggest is you either post your prescription here and we can try and give an idea to how they may turn out or you take the pot luck option and order !!

Another thing to bear in mind is that opticians here have to abide by a set guideline for thickness etc and buying from abroad means they dont comply to this so their idea of standard is thinner than ours from the start.


HTH


Mishka

purplepatch

3plus1 wrote:

I contacted Goggles4u because they say they provide "High Index" lenses, but don't reveal what this means, and I need my lenses to be flattened by at least 25%, given that I have a high prescription. I asked how much they would thin the lenses.

They said, tell us your prescription. I told them. They said that they could make me glasses, and the lenses would be "of normal thickness".

What is that meant to mean?

I'm a -5ish prescription, and have ordered on 2 occasions from goggles4u and been happy enough. However, I have to say that their "high index" lenses are not actually that thin - the lenses are definitely considerably thicker than my high street bought high index glasses (not the really thin mega expensive ones, just standard). Saying that, at the price goggles4u charge for specs, I'm happy to live with it, but I don't wear glasses full time - contacts during the day usually and switch to glasses in the evening. I think if I were a full time specs wearer I would probably pay more to get a thinner lens.

Edit to say that I have found an old email from goggles4u that say that their high index lenses are 1.56 spec. This isn't really much better than standard ie non high index specification (1.5). There is some more information about high index lenses here. In a nutshell high index plastic lenses come in 1.6, 1.67 and 1.74, the higher the number the thinner the lens.

In view of this info, I think that the high street lenses I bought previously were probably the 1.67 thickness, hence my seeing a considerable difference between them and the ones from goggles4u.