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Don't mock, I think these are going to be the most useful lenses in my kit! :)

I haven't been to the optician for 30 years, never needed glasses (roughty toughty Scot etc.) and though I've been really lucky with my sight I have noticed over the last year or so a deterioration in my medium/long distance sight. I thought "my eyes are tired it's too much driving in the dark or too much staring at the monitor, they'll be ok in a while". It wasn't until I looked through someone elses glasses and the world literally jumped into sharp focus that I realised just how bad my eyesight has become.

So I toddled off to Visionexpress to get my eyes tested and the optician there said they are very healthy but you do need distance glasses, here's a prescription.

I quite fancied those ones you see advertised on the TV (well if I could see the TV I mean) the bendable memory-metal tungsten ones so I asked the salesman in Visionexpress to show me a pair (his eyes lit up!) Here we go, £169 sir (/me nearly faints) I say well ok I'll take them, great says he, that will be £266 including lenses at £97 with anti reflective coating (/me really does faint!)
After I picked myself up off the floor I said erm let me think about it, that's a lot of money.

I took my prescription home and did some 'internetting' and found that I could buy the same glasses so much cheaper it made VE look like pirates of the caribean!

In the end I plumped for a company called spex4less because they offered a complete no quibble, money back one year guarantee, 'even if you just don't like them' (and a free specs case :) )

I placed my order on Friday evening last week (£74.45 all inc) and the glasses arrived by post on Friday morning this week which is not bad going by anyone's standards. They fit, are comfortable and by damn I can see stuff with them!!
I might even say I look damned sexy in them but then I did before so that's no fair comparison :)

The only thing is I would be a little reluctant to take the case out with me in public

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There is a moral to this tale as with all good tales, get your eyes tested, if you live in Scotland it's free to everyone but even if you don't it's a small price to pay to be able to actually see the world go by everyday!
 
HeHe at title Steep ... :lol:

Just got me two new pairs from Boots ... BoGoF deal ... trying varifocals ... and having a hard time adjusting to them ... :shake:




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So where is the picture of you wearing them?

Oh and last time I bought online I used http://optical4less.com/ who are in hong kong but are not only dead cheap they are also quite helpful and I'd use them again. The glasses were good too :)
 
Nice story and a moral one at that. I wonder how many of us wander around "unable" to see OK, and then drive....

I've been there done that got the specs... then got contact lenses (cant do laser correction, not sure I'd want to).
Now I can see what I should through the viewfinder.
 
Thanks Guys, needed to get glasses for a little while, but couldn't afford the £200 required to get them with the thinner lenses required for my prescription, however i have jsut ordered from spex4less same thing delivered for £65!

Brilliant, well chuffed, liked the no quibble warranty and hopefully the design will look ok. :)
 
i should go and get mine tested, im leaving a snot trail on the monitor where i'm getting a little too close...
 
I was tempted to get my glasses from the net, but I have a mate who works in a lab at a Specsaver and he pointed out that there doesnt seem to be a way for them to measure your eyes...apparently there is some measurment they take (he had a technical name for it) to measure the shape or your eye, and this is not included on your prescription.....It was enough to put me off buying online.
 
Dunno, gotta be better than nothing for me! Plus can't afford the shop price regardless so the net works out good for me. Hopefully they will be ok. CAn't wait to get em and see them in the flesh!
 
Venomator said:
...trying varifocals ... and having a hard time adjusting to them ... :shake: :p
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Perseve...it gets better BUT...if still not "settled" after 2 wks go back. Mine were causing me no end of grief; couldn't see anything properly; went back and all they had to do was tweak them very slightly so they sat better over my face and Bingo! crystal clear. No problems since.


Does anyone know if this company do varifocals, or just single vision?
 
No varifocals, just bifocals. I suspect it's because varifocals are harder to make and fit.

They very kindly offered to sell me my glasses for half the price I paid for them yesterday, baskets! :)
 
Never thought of getting my glasses online, thanks for the tip, Steep.
 
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