My husband has really poor eyesight without his glasses on, so he buys a special kind of lens so they aren't really thick, which can be really expensive if purchased at a vision store. He doesn't like any wal-mart frames, so he picks out frames from a diffrent store (last time, we found a little shop that sold frames, he got a nice pair for a decent price) and has walmart make the lenses to fit the frame, which they will do for free. That way, he gets walmart prices on the lenses but gets to pick out a frame he likes. He hasn't had any problems with this glasses...and it does save about $100. I think for everything he spent about $260 last time (about 8 months ago).