new glasses

[sirrahbed]

Remember Catnapper's thread about the place to order spare eyeglasses?

I had to try these for myself also.

I used a millimeter measuring tape and took all the dimensions from my favorite pair and ordered a spare that are nearly the same style plus a different style just for fun. The Optometrist mailed me my Rx and pupil distance. I have bifocals but want to go back to a single lens because I only use them for movies and driving. I have never liked the reading bifocal and do not need it to read. I can't imagine how they could make a bifocal though - they are so hard to get just right in person.

$25 for two pair including the shipping I got one "cheapo" for $8 and then popped for an "expensive" pair...$12.95 Will wait and see how they look when they arrive!

*update* the glasses arrived - less than two weeks with Labor Day in there, too. Like Kim, I am rather pleased!! They came with nice hard cases and microfiber cleaning cloths. I have to say that the $8 is flimsy. They look great but the wire frames are very thin. BUT perfect for keeping next to the TV. The prescriptions feels spot on and I already love not having that bifocal. The *expensive* pair seems to be the same quality as anything I have tried on in the optical shop. It has the springs in the earpiece to make them flexible, nosepieces very sturdy - I really like them!! I am going to order another pair with tinted lenses for sunglasses to keep in the car.
Oh and want to see me?
The first - rectangles are new to me - they are silver. I have never worn that shape but I like them. #4197 these are my *expensive $12.95* pair!




The second - ovals are $8.00 pair, a pink frame and very much like what I already have been wearing. #4100

[catnapper]

LOL Debbie!!! Glad you tried it and are happy with the results.

I ordered two more pairs from them too and got them last week.... I LOVE the one squarish pair. LOVE them. They're better and more comfortable than my expensive ones from a regular eyeglass store. I spent $22 for my last order and am thrilled with both pairs. I made a huge mistake on my first order by clicking the smaller sized pair -- MY STUPIDITY -- but the 1st order showed me how nice their product was.

Isn't that website addictive? I have to stop myself from ordering a hundred pairs in different colors to go with my mood and outfit Logic dictates a person does NOT need several pairs of glasses.... most people would claim one only needs a single pair of glasses But now I have my funky red plastic ones and "normal" ones for every day use. I like the plastic ones for laying in bed to watch TV, I don't worry about them bending out of shape.

I'm going to upgrade to thinner lenses next time I order. Their standard lens is the same thickness as my upgraded JC Penney pair... so how thin will the upgrade be with this website? I don't need any more glasses any time soon, so I'll wait til next year after I get my eyes rechecked

[catnapper]

Ok, Since Debbie is brave, I'll post my new frames too.
This is the round pair in what they called burgundy. I think these might be the same pair Debbie got!


and here are the blue square ones. I can not tell you how much I love these glasses!



Flutter wanted to know why I was kneeling on the floor in front of the desk so she got photographed too.... much to her annoyance.

[sirrahbed]

Kim - I also love those squarish frames on you!! They look great and very stylish. Oh and why do your pics look like portraits and mine look like smiling mugshots?

[Sirrahsim]

They look so nice!! The rectangular ones are my favorite but that is probably because that is the shape that I wear. It's crazy that you can get good quality lenses for so cheap!
I may need to buy a pair just for the thinner lenses! My rx is approximately -7.5 and -6.75 so my lenses are always super thick. I bought $160 lenses with this last pair of glasses and they still look like coke bottles. It would be interesting to see what my lenses would look like from this place.

[RedHedd]

OK, now you're tempting me! It took three tries to finally get a prescription that worked for me this year, which means I'm left without a back-up pair with my current Rx. Debbie, I'm with you - I dumped my bifocals many years ago when the frame styles got too small for my prescription to even be possible to make. I have a distance pair with magnetic polarized sun glass lenses and a reading pair. I kinda like having two pair, although sometimes I forget and walk around with my reading pair and wonder why things look wonky Silly me.

[sirrahved]

As soon as I get my new prescription I'm ordering more than one pair! I never thought I could afford a wardrobe of glasses!

[shais_mom]

that's friggin awesome!

[shais_mom]

Debbie so you used the zenni optical also right?! ok
but what is your vision like? I have 6.50 in my left eye and 4.50 right eye - and they can fit these? I guess what throws me off is where it says - regular or extra stregnth prescription
I don't have my prescription - I have to have an exam - but just wondering when I get it - my frames from walmart cost $80 five years ago - so this is a lot cheaper - I'm just wondering about the lens?

thnx!

[shais_mom]

well I had an eye exam yesterday and got my script from walmart -
they didn't have all the info on the paper so I just called them back and don't think they were overly keen on giving me the info but I managed to get it. I'm just going to order the $9.95 pair with the $5 upgrade and see how they work, if they work out then I'll order another pair. This makes me nervous, and I don't want to order 2 pairs and get suckered.

[sirrahbed]

my lenses are OD -1.50 -1.00x120 and OS -1.75 -1.25x084 and pupil distance 54.5 so not too strong I guess? My eye trouble is macular lesions that make blind spots - the right eye has only peripheral vision so I really have NO IDEA what the numbers mean in my prescription. I still love the glasses I bought from Zenni and wear them every time I go anywhere or watch tv. My old "good" pair is now my spare

be sure to measure the temple piece, nose piece and frame width on a pair that fit uou well. I learned that my face is almost as small as a child so I needed small frames.

If you guys order - let us hear from you OK?

ps I went in to Walmart for my scrip and they acted a little put out, too

[shais_mom]

how did you get them to accept your lower than average pupil distance? choose a smaller set of frames?
my PD is 25.5OU so that is 51 for both eyes. And it won't let me chose it b/c it is lower than the average.

[sirrahbed]

how did you get them to accept your lower than average pupil distance? choose a smaller set of frames?
my PD is 25.5OU so that is 51 for both eyes. And it won't let me chose it b/c it is lower than the average.

hmmmm...it lists 35 - 90 for the pupil distance when I select the frames I bought...and I just picked 54 or 55 for mine. I guess this means for both eyes? I did not know if it was small or not. Maybe the frames you picked might be too big for the small PD? I know that both frames I picked were described as "small".

[shais_mom]

that's what I thought so I chose small set of frames and they are still telling me that and that its probably an error.
their phone is busy (zenni) so i emailed them. I really want to order CHEAP frames - even walmarts prices are a rip off!