Prescription glasses for £8.50 inc delivery, anti-scratch/glare and UV

Og_Troff

fluffygrue wrote: »

I got my mum to measure my pupillary distance with a ruler.. seemed to work okay!

Only negative is that they get quite a bit of glare if I wear them at night - I get lines of glare running from street-lights to the end of my nose.. quite trippy! - so I don't think I'd want to drive in them.

Melanie

What, after your night out this happens?

nedmundo

fluffygrue wrote: »

I ordered the Msasa glasses - took a few weeks to arrive, as expected at the price. Really pleased that they look sturdy enough for me to not break, and they're small enough that they don't look odd on my face (most glasses completely dwarf me)

I got my mum to measure my pupillary distance with a ruler.. seemed to work okay!

Only negative is that they get quite a bit of glare if I wear them at night - I get lines of glare running from street-lights to the end of my nose.. quite trippy! - so I don't think I'd want to drive in them.

Melanie

Either they need a good clean or the coating is faulty.

TheShadowMan

Just ordered 4 pairs from selectspecs.com - assume they will come from china and take a few weeks to arrive - but for £5 or £8 (semi-rimless) who cares!

Also for anyone looking D&A are doing a no obligation free eye test.
you will need to add the dots
www danda co uk/tmn-fet-50-off-sep100/

shays_mum

This has already been posted on MSE yonks back, but thanks for the reminder!, i might add shipping for us was not 3 weeks, more like 3 months!!, but the glasses were wonderful

clairibel

Og_Troff wrote: »

When you order, you fill in an on screen prescription which looks just like your form. I think you need to get a copy. The only 'problem' is that you need your pupilliary distance for the prescription. You can order a special ruler for this, but I just had my wife mark my glasses with a felt pen and measured the distance 3 times and took the average. No problem.

I did ask the optician to do it for me, but you would have thought I was asking him to donate a lung.

LOL about the lung

So for this PD thing you measure from the middle of your eye to not sure where? Thanks for any guidance

fibe

Your pupiliary distance is the distance from outside of one pupil to the inside of the other if this helps, usually somewhere between 55 and 70mm and usually measured in millimetres. I got someone to measure mine with a ruler it was easy enough to do - £5 specs cant wait!!

slenderkitten

fluffygrue wrote: »

I ordered the Msasa glasses - took a few weeks to arrive, as expected at the price. Really pleased that they look sturdy enough for me to not break, and they're small enough that they don't look odd on my face (most glasses completely dwarf me)

I got my mum to measure my pupillary distance with a ruler.. seemed to work okay!

Only negative is that they get quite a bit of glare if I wear them at night - I get lines of glare running from street-lights to the end of my nose.. quite trippy! - so I don't think I'd want to drive in them.

Melanie

probably need a good clean i get that on my expensive ones its just grease that hasn't been wiped away cleanly my mum always used to wash her glasses with a small bit of washing up liquid and let them dry on kitchen paper. i do this too this way you dont smear the glasses when cleaning with a cloth as much

aloiseb

Og_Troff wrote: »

I did ask the optician to do it for me, but you would have thought I was asking him to donate a lung.

um......could it be that they thought you should be buying the glasses from their firm, and helping to cover their costs for having a high street shop?

durham_girl

aloiseb wrote: »

um......could it be that they thought you should be buying the glasses from their firm, and helping to cover their costs for having a high street shop?

Thanked by accident....

Who cares what the optician thinks? They'd paid for the test, either themselves or via the NHS so it shouldn't be like pulling teeth to get the pupil distance!

I've worked in a opticans so know how little they pay for frames and the very high profit margins they have. Maybe if the prices were more reasonable people wouldn't buy online.

giggles_alot

Thank you for this. My Mum has an eye test on Saturday and is dreading the price of new glasses. Just spotted an identical pair on here to the ones she thinks she wants. She would save £100+ by ordering from here instead.