Consumer Reports rates Costco's prescription glasses highly, and Costco has some reasonable frames.
One thing to watch out for with Costco is they don't guarantee satisfaction. That is they will guarantee to fill the prescription, but if they fill the prescription and it just is not comfortable with those particular frames they won't make it good. This differs from most of the chains. Also when I went in with my prescription (bifocals with really strong prescriptions and and prisms in both half the lenses ) the optician told me they did not have the capability of filling that prescription - they could not grind lenses that small and that strong.
Thank you all so much for the advice. You guys rule. If things don't slow down today, to the doc I go!
So I noted the bus number and the first thing I did when I got into the office was call the CTA and get the opposing view on record first. The CTA lady was kind of boggled -
Reason 4,612 why I. Love. Brenda.
I had good luck with Costco and they were good about adjusting the earpieces and the like. I have a prescription that's challenging, in that one lens is much thicker than the other, but it's not really, really thick. I wish I could afford different glasses for different looks, but progressive trifocals are pricey and my lenses won't go into a lot of the stylish looks. Very much a first-world problem.
Sure overall Costco is good. Apparently though they can't handle the toughest of tough prescriptions (which should not be a problem for most people.) And, as a friend found out the hard way - while they will do adjustments, they have an absolute "if the prescription is right you can't return it policy". Not even unreasonable - except most places do have a "return for any reason within first n days" policy. N usually varying from 30 - 90.
Well, huh. Just made a list of items damaged while the landlords made "improvements" to the Cambridge apartment. $700. I know that won't be the final worth amount, because some of the things were several years old, but still. Seeing it all down on paper is like, wow. Stupid idiots.
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vw, don't go by original price, go by replacement cost.
{{Robin}} I agree with everyone else who said doctor, but, you know, only because they seem to know what they're talking about.
I have been getting my glasses at the eye doctors, which has been somewhat painful pricewise, but they're progressive trifocals and that's the way the insurance is set up to pay. And I still can't see.
vw, don't go by original price, go by replacement cost.
That's how the lawyer told me to list it. He's gonna do the other figures.
