Sibling's got an eye exam for new glasses and wondering if y'all can recommend me some place that offers glasses cheaply since they don't got insurance. I'd appreciate any help available comrades.
Sibling's got an eye exam for new glasses and wondering if y'all can recommend me some place that offers glasses cheaply since they don't got insurance. I'd appreciate any help available comrades.
I've used Zenni, they're good for exactly what you want: very reasonably priced glasses that look nice and don't immediately fall apart.
Some tips you might appreciate:
Comrades are mentioning pupillary distance. This is good to get, and you can do it carefully with a ruler rather than paying for it at the optometrist. PD is literally just measuring the distance between your pupils, in millimeters, doing a thousand yard stare. To be 100% accurate you actually want to measure separate distances from the center of the bridge of your nose to each pupil - or to mark the center of the bridge of your nose on the ruler when measuring and infer.
Zenni is so inexpensive that if you have the time to wait on shipping twice, you can order a backup pair of glasses first for literally $7+tax+shipping and they should also send a PD-measuring ruler at the same time, so you can remeasure just in case and order more expensive frames + lenses (you will probably want their high index lenses at minimum, which adds $20.
In my experience, the thin metal frames can be a little flimsier and easier to bend than you might expect. Not dramatically so, but just a heads up. Prescriptions change fast enough that this is probably not a problem.