Reglazing glasses cost cutting discussion area.

andrewmoorcroft

truly.maddy.deeply wrote: »

Does anyone know if they do sunglasses lens' or just normal ones? Many thanks

Yes, they cost £22 on 1.5 index lenses. Here's the price list http://www.ciliaryblue.com/pricelist.html

xxMandyxx

Hi

I used spex4less to reglaze my glasses, optical express wanted £80 to reglaze them and D&A wanted £90 - so off i went to look on the net and I sent them to spex4less and got them back in 3 days for £15! I was really chuffed! Great service i would recommend them.

Hope that helps!

Mandy

DigitalJedi

I really don't understand why spectacles are so expensive in this country. Last year I went to Specsavers and was quoted about £150+ for a pair of glasses with the ultrathin lenses. Admittedly i had a pair of frames which actually looked nice on me rather than cheapo cheapo frames.

I went to Hong Kong earlier this year on business. A local company picked me up in a car, drove me to their shop. Free eye test, I picked a pair of rimless glasses with ultra thin lenses, free drinks and made within 30 mins. After they dropped me back off at my hotel. Cost? £45

Two days later thought to myself I'll go get a pair of glasses with photochromatic lenses. Same process. This time took them slightly longer to make. Couldn't get the ultra-thin lenses but I think thats the same everywhere. Cost..... £40

moneybob_2

Glasses4Eyes do rimless frame re-glazing. They recommend rimless glasses should be fitted with polycarbonate lenses and you are given the option to upgrade to polycarbonate lenses on their online order form.

zedbyc

lookonlineforspecs.co.uk offer reglazing too.:beer:

£15 including lenses, unless you go for upgrades.

poorbabe

I'm livid :mad::mad: I've just come across 'reglazing' as an option from another finance website. I'm severely short-sighted and my prescription changed frequently until my 40s when it seems to be improving slightly :rolleyes:. However, every time there was a change the optician was insistent that I needed new glasses and that my current frames couldn't be used. Given they would cost upwards of £300 (frames and lenses) and I wear contacts 95% of the time, I always resisted until I had the money/found somewhere cheaper.

Not once had any optician at Optical Express and, more recently, D&A suggested I could get my lenses reglazed so I wouldn't have to get new frames. That would have saved me £00s over the years. I'm due a sight test in about 2 weeks. If my prescription has changed again, I'll give them what for if reglazing is not mentioned :mad::mad::mad:

Bunch of thieving ............... :mad::mad::mad:

FIL!!*_2

Hi, I have been in Optics over 25 years and reglazing is frowned upon because the frame sale is so important. It is often used as a last resort to 'keep' the patient. Very wrong though! Some on-line sites offer it, but make sure they know what they are doing! We use a company to make the specs for our practice, when my lab tech is away, that do on-line reglazing only. For us the work is perfect and as good as our techi would do. Worth a look, not promoting on-line businesses too much as they do make our work slightly more difficult, but if you want to do it this way then try ciliaryblue.

lostinrates

DH has had only two frames in the last 6 and a half years, just keps getting them reglazed. He has this done through a normal high street chain opticians, and they are always happy to do this. When he did replace the frames he's chosen more expensive frames that he fels suit him, feeling he can send a little more as he's going to reuse them.

poorbabe

Thanks you guys. I had to move my sight test to August so I'll wait to see what the results are, what they suggest, then politely raise the reglazing issue.

veronarona

andrewmoorcroft wrote: »

Most suppliers recommend polycarbonate lenses as the best for rimless but the company mentioned in the glasses thread (cilaryblue) dont offer them. When i rang them they didnt recommend them for rimless because they distort at the holes. I'm confused.

Did you go for Ciliary Blue reglazing in the end, Andrew? They look almost ideal for me but I hadn't noticed that they don't do polycarbonate for rimless (I was fooled by the "ultra thin"), which is what I have and would like replaced. The only thing with polycarbonate is that it does fingerprint badly, but I dread anything heavier and am prepared to put up with frequent cleaning.

I'm extremely broke but my eyes have deteriorated significantly, I feel, in the past year or so.

veronarona