subject: How To Buy Cheap Prescription Glasses Online [print this page] This is not something I would have thought possible. How can you buy cheap prescription glasses over the internet? Being someone who does need prescription glasses, I've always gone to the optician's shop to choose the frames and have the glasses made. It can sometimes take quite a length of time to get the finished glasses. They always want to show you the most expensive frames and talk you into a second pair for free! The choice of these free frames is usually very limited, and it's only standard lenses that are included. If like me you need varifocal glasses, you still end up paying out much more than you had intended to.
I took a look online to see what was available. Was I ever surprised! Talk about a great way to buy cheap prescription glasses! Some sites claim to be able to save you up to 75% of the normal retail price of prescription glasses. You can get high quality prescription glasses without having to pay high street prices.
Most of the online services work in a similar way. You choose the frames you like, enter your prescription and order your new glasses. The turnaround can be as little as a few days! Most will send the glasses out in about 15 days.
The choice of frames is amazing. Brands available at discounted prices include Armani, Gucci, Dolce and Gabanna, Diesel, Dior, Prada and Hugo Boss. You can buy specialist sports glasses for golf, fishing and a range of other activities. You can also order prescription safety glasses.
If you have a single vision or bifocal prescription, you can safely order your frames without the need to try them on first. However with varifocal prescriptions you really need to try them on. It's to do with where your pupil sits in relation to the lenses in the glasses. Varifocal glasses blend from your distance vision to your intermediate and then to your reading vision.
This gradual blending means that an accurate measurement is needed to align perfectly with your pupils. The best way to do this is for you to actually try on the frames, take a photo and send the photo back to the online supplier. They can then scale the photo and get the right measurements. Another option available is to capture a photo of yourself and use a virtual mirror to try on the frames. This is a lot of fun. You can see what the frames look like on your own face.
You've found the perfect frames, now which lenses? There are 2 choices, plastic or glass. Most lenses today are plastic because they are lighter than glass. Unless you have a very high prescription, plastic is the best option. You can have your glasses tinted. Photochromics (known by the brand name 'Transitions' for plastic lenses) make your glasses clear indoors and then when you go outdoors they react to UV rays (sunlight) and the glasses transition into sunglasses. What a clever idea. 2 pairs of glasses in one.
Looking for cheap prescription glasses? Look online and save yourself time and money.
by: Lawrence White
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