New glasses!

[wrenb]

I bought new glasses from Zenni Optical, home of the $8 glasses. They arrived in the mail yesterday. I'm fairly pleased with them! The frames aren't exactly what I would have chosen if I'd had a chance to try them on, but for $10 (including shipping) I'm pretty happy! They're cute glasses with light blue plastic frames. They're not as round as they look in the picture, which is why I'm not certain I love them.

I usually wear contacts, which is why I'm willing to try cheap glasses. Today I wore them all day, and I think I look pretty hip. I'll try to remember to post a picture later.

I do worry about how Zenni can manage to offer glasses for so little money.

Comments

[calliaz.livejournal.com]

The markup on frames is amazing. I don't know about how they can do the lenses for so cheap, though.

I've considered Zenni, but am not confident about measuring the thing you have to measure (pupil distance?).

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

My DH is a woodworker and has a set of calipers that measure very finely. So we measured each other's pupil distance using those.

[abernat.livejournal.com]

A normal set of dial calipers, actually. And not blinking.

I'm pretty sure it's not perfect, but it's probably within 1-2mm. I don't know how accurate you really need to be.

I like my pair, but they ride a lot higher than my old ones - well, the lenses are smaller. Which means the world goes fuzzy if I look down. I need to spread the bridge out, because I _like_ looking down. For, say, reading.

[gloriap.livejournal.com]

"I do worry about how Zenni can manage to offer glasses for so little money."

Made in China, perhaps?

I've been buying reading glasses from Target for the past few years for $1 a pair. The Dollar Stores have them at that price, too. AFAICT they have been fine for reading and close work.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

I have a weird prescription, and getting glasses with titanium frames and thinner plastic, plus two sets of clip-on sunglasses clips, cost less than $38. A bit better than the $500 I spent for the previous pair O.O