Glassy Eyes: Blog and Info Hub for Ordering Glasses Online
Last year I saw a post on BoingBoing about the Glassy Eyes blog. Ira Mitchell took it upon himself to create a small clearinghouse for information about ordering glasses online. He discovered that you CAN order prescription glasses online and get a great product for a small fraction of what you normally pay in a store. Ira has purchased many pairs of glasses himself from several online merchants and offers you the results of his expereinces. He also set up a Flickr pool and Google group to allow people to share their own expereinces. I especially like how the Google group site has a page set up for each of the online vendors with reviews and comments from readers.
I purchased a pair of regular glasses and a pair of sunglasses from goggles4u.com. I have been really happy with the product I received and even made a less conservative selection of frames that I normally would have, because the price was so low. Folks offered a lot of compliments when I started wearing them ;o) Each pair of glasses was only $26 shipped!
If you wear glasses, you owe it to yourself to check out this resource. You can save a bundle.
We hadn’t discovered Ira’s site before doing so, but last month, we bought glasses online for our 2 year old son. The biggest problem we were having when looking locally is that none of the brick & mortar shops in our area carry eyeglass frames small enough for an infant/toddler.
We found frames at Zenni Optical that were not only sized right, but were made of titanium memory metal and featured the wrap-around tips on the earpieces. He has definitely put those frame’s flexibility & durability to the test — and so far, they’re still in one piece!
We had the lenses validated by a local optician and they’re exactly as prescribed. And for $35 shipped, we couldn’t be happier. Now if we could just get the kiddo to leave them on…