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0 pointsjusssi3y ago0 comments

How does buying glasses online even work? I have never tried, so I'd expect it to be like buying shoes without trying them on (which I won't do either, based on in-store experience I'd be returning 9 pairs out of 10 for bad fit).

I wear glasses for 95% of time, I want to not hate how they feel.

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walnutclosefarm3y ago

Yes. Like a charm. Biggest potential hitch is that your optometrist will give you your prescription (they are required by law), but won't include your ocular measurements, which you then have to make yourself at home in order to order the glasses. Get the inter-ocular distance wrong, in particular, and your glasses will not work correctly.

bluGill3y ago

Hint, when buy glasses ask about swim goggles - they will write down the PD distance (since they don't have swim goggles), and then you can keep that number. You still need to buy one final set of glasses, but you can get their cheap frames and be done.

Spivak3y ago

This life hack really isn't necessary, you can just ask for your PD distance and they'll bring out a little machine that measures it. No optometrist has ever been weird about it, a few have even told me a few sites to get cheaper glasses.

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the_d3f4ult3y ago

Just ask for your PD. Nobody cares. I'be never heard of anyone sleazy enough to not give this information out.

LorenPechtel3y ago

US scripts usually don't include the ocular measurements. I've had a pair where they got the vertical ever so slightly wrong on a progressive, truly horrible, I went back to the eye doc about it and it confounded him also--I could look through the script on his machine and it was fine. He finally figured out what had happened, dialed something into his machine and it was just as awful as the glasses. The optician recut the offending lens, no problem at all. I have no idea how you are even supposed to measure that at home, the opticians always seem to do it on the frame you're actually going to be using. It's not fixed like PD is. (If you're not doing progressive it doesn't have to be spot on, though.)

RosanaAnaDana3y ago

you tyoe in your prescription and a week later they appear. if you dont like them, send them back.

acomjean3y ago

I think you also need to measure the distance between your eyes. The only not supper easy part.

femto3y ago

Measuring Pupillary Distance (PD, or distance between your pupils) is easy! Here's how:

1) Stand in front of a vertical mirror, making sure you are square to the mirror.

2) Place a horizontal ruler on the surface of the mirror.

3) Close one eye and move your head until the reflection of the centre of your pupil lines up with zero on the ruler.

4) Keeping your head still, open your eye and close the other eye.

5) The Pupillary Distance is the reading on the ruler that lines up with the centre of the reflection of your pupil.

6) If you want to double check it, just swap the opening of your eyes and check that the other eye still sees itself at zero.

I use this method whenever I order glasses online and have yet to have a pair of glasses that have any error in the manufacturing. I now only buy glasses online.

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bearmode3y ago

A lot of online retailers have trial systems, you can try 3 or 4 different pairs for a week before buying them.

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