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Glasses online

  • 27-06-2018 1:29pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,940 ✭✭✭✭


    Is there anywhere you can get prescription glasses online that would be cheaper or have a better selection than Specsavers,
    I just feel surely there is more selection than just specsaver but have never really looked into it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 pearl787


    Bumping this because I have the same question


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,371 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    https://www.zennioptical.com/
    https://www.goggles4u.co.uk/

    Both cheaper than Specsavers. Wouldn't necessarily have a better selection.
    The big downside is you can't try them on, but the cheap ones are very cheap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,276 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    If you buy frames from specsavers for example can you bring them to another place for test and get them to put new lens in? Do specsavers allow that actually?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Glasses2you.co.uk

    Sign up and wait for a discount code before buying. Buying for years and never an issue. Though Brexit might end that one for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,276 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    Sign up and wait for a discount code before buying. Buying for years and never an issue. Though Brexit might end that one for me.


    And you bring those frames to have lens put in in ireland? Has any place said to you: Sorry we can't put our lens in those frames because they wouldn't fit properly (or whatever)?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    bobbyss wrote: »
    And you bring those frames to have lens put in in ireland? Has any place said to you: Sorry we can't put our lens in those frames because they wouldn't fit properly (or whatever)?

    I buy frames and lenses from them. Currently have a 40% code on subscribing. Just upload your prescription

    https://www.glasses2you.co.uk/

    Just got a pair of varifocal high index for £104


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I'm in the market for new specs online now. The last pair I got was at a "high street" optician and they were extremely expensive, since I have a high prescription (past -9.00 diopters) and need varifocals. I've been looking online and have found a few options, but none seem great:
    • specs.ie, myglasses.ie - I made a note of these before, but they seem to be dead now
    • buynewspecs.ie, glassesdirect.co.uk - won't take online orders for high prescriptions. (If you have to say "call us", I might as well buy locally.)
    • smartbuyglasses.ie - look OK but reviews are mixed, they go to some lengths to obscure that they're a Chinese supplier.
    • espyandiris.com - might be OK, limited frame selection.
    • selectspecs.com - best of the bunch I've checked so far, slightly more expensive than the others but still far less than I paid last time.
    Does anyone have recent experience buying glasses online?

    edit: just placed an order with goggles4u.co.uk as mentioned above: pretty painless, now to see what they deliver.

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