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Splurge on yourself and pick up your dream prescription eyeglasses to compliment your unique look today! Buying prescription glasses online can sometimes be tricky, but at DIFF we make it easy! With your up to date glasses prescription in hand, choose from our variety of stylish glasses to find a pair that best fits your style and everyday life. After you choose what style of prescription glasses best suits you, you will need to decide on a prescription lens.
Your four prescription glasses lens options are: single vision, reading glasses, polarized sunglasses, and photochromic glasses. Then, you will be on your way to owning your very own pair of stylish prescription glasses! The first thing to do before purchasing eyeglasses whether online or in-store, is to get a prescription from your eye doctor, optometrist or ophthalmologist. Once your doctor has determined the proper diopter strength and pupillary distance for your prescription, you can head online to your favorite store and choose a frame style based on your taste and preference.
DIFF Eyewear offers you the option to order any eyeglass frames and customize them with your prescribed diopter Rx strength. All prescriptions are checked by our in house optician to ensure your glasses are perfect! Your PD is the distance from the center of one pupil to the center of the other in millimeters. This information is necessary to properly center your prescription correctly in your frames. It's important to note that the average PD is between 57 and 65mm.
You may have two PD values - one for each eye. It is best to get this measured by your eye care professional. We asked each of the retailers we tested what they did with unwanted prescription glasses.
Liingo said it reuses returned frames for its in-home try-on services, as well as donates glasses to various organizations. Zenni donates them to Lions Clubs International. Of the seven brands we tested, EyeBuyDirect offers the most impressive balance of aesthetics and affordability. For lower single-vision prescriptions, the company offers a plethora of lens-thickness and coating options. These tied for the lowest upcharges for bifocal and progressive lenses of all the companies we tested in EyeBuyDirect says glasses can take one to two weeks to produce and mail, but all of our test pairs arrived within seven days of ordering, save for the more-complicated progressives, which arrived within the promised two weeks.
We tried this service and were pleasantly surprised to receive our order within 33 hours of placing it. Had we not opted to pay for two-day shipping, we would have been forced to upgrade to 1. But in most situations, two weeks should be plenty of time to figure out whether you like your new glasses.
If you order more than one pair, the company will provide a prepaid label for you to ship the glasses back, no questions asked. Make sure to read the return instructions and all communication from customer service about the return process. We found that unless EyeBuyDirect provided a prepaid shipping label, we were expected to put in a little more work to receive a refund than with other retailers, since the process is not automated.
After paying to return the unwanted eyeglasses that did not come with a prepaid label, we had to reach back out to the company to ask it to provide a receipt and tracking number and again request a refund. After that, the glasses went back to performing well. EyeBuyDirect reported data breaches in , , and This, of course, is not ideal. But considering how common such occurrences are in e-commerce, we view these events as unfortunate but not necessarily disqualifying.
The company this year offered customers who reported fraudulent activity on credit cards associated with purchases at EyeBuyDirect a year of free identity detection and identity-theft resolution services, a spokesperson wrote in an email.
Although EyeBuyDirect generally has strong Better Business Bureau customer reviews , some customer reviewers have cited poor customer service. If you want to try frames on for fit and style before buying them, consider Liingo Eyewear.
As with our other picks, all of the prescriptions we ordered from Liingo were deemed correct by an independent optician. Liingo offers a selection of more than frames, about the same as other in-home trial retailers we tested. But its glasses typically cost more than those from our other picks. Even though we spent more on comparable frame-and-lens pairings from Liingo versus EyeBuyDirect, our panelists liked their EyeBuyDirect glasses the same.
Tester 1, who ordered wire frames with single-vision prescription lenses, named the glasses they received from Liingo their second-favorite pair, trailing those they received from EyeBuyDirect, which cost a third as much. We found its shipping and return processing times comparable to those of EyeBuyDirect. Liingo glasses come with a one-year warranty against defects and breaking from standard wear and tear. Its spectacles ship with a hardshell case and a lens-cleaning cloth.
Our testers did and, yes, all of the prescriptions on pairs we ordered were accurate. Like EyeBuyDirect, Zenni does not offer in-home frame trials. But Zenni has an incredible selection of more than 2, frames more than twice as many as EyeBuyDirect and myriad lens options, including the choice of basic lenses even for people with stronger prescriptions. For example, with Zenni I was able to choose the 1. Our testers gave high marks to the quality of most of the Zenni frames we ordered on a par with their scores for frames from EyeBuyDirect and Liingo , though some of the cheapest ones did indeed look and feel cheap.
One reported receiving glasses with an air bubble in a lens. In , we ordered the exact same glasses that we ordered in to evaluate consistency. We were pleasantly surprised to note that not only was the prescription perfect, but the glasses were also slightly less expensive this year, thanks to the recent uptick in Zenni coupon codes.
Zenni offers a year of protection against lens-coating defects only. If not, and you remember where you bought your last pair of specs, give the shop a call. Note that even when a frame has nearly the exact same official measurements as another, style and fit can vary dramatically. Though the virtual try-on services are better than nothing, especially for a seasoned glasses wearer who knows their face, to find flattering frames, a novice in need of specs should probably take a bit more care the first go-round.
When it comes to an all-day accessory like eyeglasses, weight matters, and frame size and material can have a lot to do with how heavy your specs are—which can determine how long you can comfortably wear your glasses.
EyeBuyDirect and Zenni allow customers to search specifically for lightweight frames, which can help someone avoid picking attractive yet unwearable glasses. Generally speaking, mostly-plastic frames are lighter than all-metal ones, but some wire frames fit the featherweight description. A common fitting issue arises if you have a low nose bridge—meaning the shallowest part of your nose is at or below your pupils—or high cheekbones.
We previously recommended Warby Parker as our top pick, and it remains a fine place to buy glasses. But after updating our brand comparison and glasses testing in , we think most people will find better prices on potentially better prescription eyeglasses elsewhere.
Our test panelists preferred glasses from our top picks over Warby Parker specs in every case. More importantly, in several instances we paid less for glasses containing thinner, higher-index lenses from other companies than we did for essentially the same glasses with thicker basic lenses from Warby. Overall, the included hardshell case and beautiful packaging were the things we found we loved most about the glasses we ordered from Warby Parker.
However, if you have frames and you just need the prescription lenses, Lensabl is an affordable, fast, and reliable BYO-frames option. Basic plastic 1. Lensabl says it can put Rx lenses in any frames for these flat rates. The company now offers complete pairs of prescription glasses with a limited selection of frames fewer than 50 options at the time of publication.
We had no problems with the frame-and-lens combination we ordered from Lensabl in The prescription was correct, and the frames fit well and felt as expected. But the frames we ordered were of high quality, and Jins shoppers in San Francisco and Los Angeles have the added benefit of visiting a few brick-and-mortar stores as well. Jins offers a day free returns policy. People who have vision insurance through Cigna Vision, Metlife, or VSP may find Eyeconic to be a good solution for them, because the retailer is in network with all three of these major insurers.
Eyeconic also offers virtual try-on, free returns for 60 days, and a national network of eye doctors that will adjust your frames for free, if needed. Kits frames are gorgeous but pricey, due to mandatory upgrades for stronger prescriptions and expensive upsells for add-ons that are either included or less inexpensive at the sites we recommend. When we first looked at Kits, the retailer offered free returns for a generous 60 days.
It now offers a day exchange policy. We were excited to try DiscountGlasses. With DiscountGlasses. Felix Gray offers free returns but has a sparse selection of frames roughly 20 total compared with our picks. Bonlook has a useful virtual try-on tool and almost frame options. For customers in Canada only, it offers in-home frame trials.
Firmoo is beloved for its extensive selection of stylish and unusual frames and affordable pricing. Even though the unwieldy website navigation, exclusive use of PayPal, and lack of package-tracking numbers leave us unable to fully recommend the site, our panelists generally loved the Firmoo glasses we tested.
GlassesUSA sent a new shipment notification two days later. When you're done, you'll be asked to create a GlassesUSA. And that's it! Armed with that data, you can order lenses and frames from anywhere. Just take note that the app doesn't store any of this information; if you want to retrieve it later, you'll have to sign back into your GlassesUSA.
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