Best place to buy varifocals ?

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I have just had an eye test and need varifocals having used readyreaders for a little while.

I have heard that high street opticians charge a fortune and that lenses vary in quality and vision.

I have my prescription and now need to go shopping but all this is completely new to me so any advice would be gratefully received.

Gloomendoom

With varifocals, you tend to get what you pay for. The more you pay, the wider the usable field of vision.

teddysmum

Asda do them at the same price as standard lenses, but they are not the high end ones that give more clarity.


Another option is a pair for reading and one for distance (Asda don't do a free pair but the second pair is very cheap, actually making it cheaper than having a free pair elsewhere.). I have to go for this as I can't cope with variation in a lens, but have given up on reading glasses (a nuisance to keep on changing) so make do with looking over my distance glasses or taking them off and peering more closely for small print or using my 17" laptop (the optician says this is fine)

Silvertabby

I'm very happy with specsavers.

Lorian

Silvertabby wrote: »

I'm very happy with specsavers.

But that's not a very money saving option.....

Silvertabby

“ I'm very happy with specsavers.
Originally posted by Silvertabby ”

But that's not a very money saving option.....

There are things you can save money on, and things that you shouldn't - and my eyesight falls into the latter category.

I won't tell you how much I pay for my rimless varifocals - just that as my right eye is much poorer than my left, I have to buy the ultra-ultra thin lenses to avoid walking round with a bottle bottom over my right eye!

Lorian

Silvertabby wrote: »

There are things you can save money on, and things that you shouldn't - and my eyesight falls into the latter category.

I won't tell you how much I pay for my rimless varifocals - just that as my right eye is much poorer than my left, I have to buy the ultra-ultra thin lenses to avoid walking round with a bottle bottom over my right eye!

I guess more than I paid for mine, with probably the same lenses :-)

I have the same issue but with the poor eye on the left.

pollypenny

I'd say Specsavers are a money saving, at two fir the price if one, with such a good range.

If you have to wear glasses all the time, which I do and most verifocal user will, it's good to have a change. I have one rimless and one large colourful style - both with reactolite lens.

teddysmum

pollypenny wrote: »

I'd say Specsavers are a money saving, at two fir the price if one, with such a good range.

If you have to wear glasses all the time, which I do and most verifocal user will, it's good to have a change. I have one rimless and one large colourful style - both with reactolite lens.

As the above I have two very different eye prescriptions and need extra thin lenses.


Though Specsavers do two for one, they charge (a lot) extra for extra thin , but Asda include extra thin, bifocal, varifocal and tint in their standard prices ,with a second set of frames just a few pounds extra.


I found Specsavers so expensive that I used to pay for just one pair of antiglare coated thin lenses and have one per frame ,then pay for antiglare coatings for the other two lenses. Then I found that, for about £20 more, I could have four pairs from Asda, with all lenses thin and antiglare coated.

System

As someone who has paid £250 at Vision express and the £40 at ASDA i much prefer the asda ones , they are a better fit and i can see clearly unlike the dearer ones.

Gloomendoom

I have some cheap ones from Specsavers and they have a very narrow field of vision. I have to move my whole head to see things, rather than just my eyes. My employer paid for them, so I can't complain.

I had a pair of my old frames reglazed (online) with better quality lenses and the difference is like night and day. Well worth the extra money.