Goggles4u !! Too good to be true ?

mishkanorman

JasonLVC wrote:

You'll have to take my advice as a spectacle wearer not as a professional optician as you appear to be.

The 100% tint I refer to is layman's speak for a range of tint from barely tint through to light brown, mid brown upto very dark brown. I've got some genuine raybans that are very dark when wearing them and you can't see my eyes if you were talking to me. That's what I'd call full (100%) tint. The goggles4u website does allow you to select a tint % range from 10% to 100% (which isn't actually impemetrable, merely the darkest they can make them without making you blind).

No, not an optician, used to work in an opticians for many years !!

Didnt mean to criticise what you had written just that the website quotes a 100% tint which to me is nonsense, sorry if i offended, you spent ages trying to word it so i didnt come across as a git.


mishka

JasonLVC

No probs Mishka.

I did spend ages wording that last post as I knew what you meant but also knew what I was trying to say - which was basically the same only different!.

No worries and have a good night.

plutoniumpilot

mishkanorman wrote:

plutoniumpilot put your prescription on here and we can give you an idea of the thickness, some people have a very little prescription and consider themselves near blind while others never wear specs they really do need !


Mishka

Hi,

my prescription is: R -6.50/-1.00/145 and L -5.50/-1.25/170. I have a cheap pair from specsavers and they're pretty thick- 6mm and 5mm on the outer side of the lenses. I'm looking to get thinner lenses than the specsavers pair. Do you know what index the standard lenses from specsavers are? Thanks

mishkanorman

Your prescription is actually quite high, your specsavers lenses would have been 1.498 in standard. Goggles4u use this as their standard as well. The pair I received however were a thinner material and I wasnt charged extra.

The thickness of your lenses can be helped by the size frame you choose, the smaller the better, as well as picking a high index lens.


Thespectaclecase.co.uk supply 1.6 as standard (the higher the number the thinner the lens) inc a anti-glare coating and seem quite good with the range of frames but i havent used them personally.
There is also a site that uses 1.67 as standard but I cant find them right now (this is thinner again but only slightly)


If you wanna take a gamble you could do as i did and send a request for thinner lenses with your order to goggles4u but there is no guarantee what they will use !!


HTH


mishka

sarahg1969

plutoniumpilot wrote:

Hi,

my prescription is: R -6.50/-1.00/145 and L -5.50/-1.25/170. I have a cheap pair from specsavers and they're pretty thick- 6mm and 5mm on the outer side of the lenses. I'm looking to get thinner lenses than the specsavers pair. Do you know what index the standard lenses from specsavers are? Thanks

If you're a Costco member, it's worth trying there. Lenses are a standard £45, and that includes anti-scratch coating, UV coating, anti-reflective coating, and the lenses and the thinner, lighter ones.

I know that most opticians charge an extra £30 or so for each of those extras.

My glasses cost £100 all-in.

Sarah

JulianF_2

Also, Costco do reading spectacles for £10 (three pairs!!).

The_Judge_2

Thought I would add my 10 pence worth. I ordered from G4U 2 weeks ago, received the glasses, all absolutely fine. Good communication, well packed and seem well made also. Only one moan was that the polyflex frame needed adjustment, took them to local specsavers and they did it for free!!!

I would definitely recommend G4U and will use them again.

boosas

sarahg1969 wrote:

I've just ordered a pair from them. For £13.98, I think it's a risk worth taking.

I paid by Paypal, so took advantage of the exchange rate, and that's what it went through at - saving an extra £1.02!!

Sarah

Hi Sarah,

I was just wondering whether you've received your specs from goggles4u yet? Mine was noted down as dispatched on the 7th but I still havent received them and when I queried it with them they just sent back a generic reply apologising for the delay but not actually confirming any details?!



Thanks

mishkanorman

boosas wrote:

Hi Sarah,

I was just wondering whether you've received your specs from goggles4u yet? Mine was noted down as dispatched on the 7th but I still havent received them and when I queried it with them they just sent back a generic reply apologising for the delay but not actually confirming any details?!



Thanks

If its any help to you my last pair were marked down as despatched on the 31st october but werent actually sent till the 4th (as per post mark) and i received them sat 18th nov,



mishka

boosas

Thanks for letting me know I'll give it another week then!