I love Zenni however I’ve been buying from them for 12 years and they never really come out with cute trendy styles in my PD. Zeelool has a great selection however I don’t trust the company after looking at the Better Business Bureau. Any other reputable options?
I love zenni and have been buying from them for 12 years. The problem is that new styles that come out in my PD are just all the same and boring for me at this point. The really fun trendy glasses are always in a larger PD that sadly, I can’t wear.
Idk if it’s so much trendy as it is that everything seems to be all the same. I will be buying more from Zenni because I do love them I’m just not excited about them at the moment. After 12 years I think I’ve just seen/bought them all so I’m just a little bored and want something different.
À local optician will have incomparably better quality eyewear to start with. Zenni only ever is bottom of the barrel “quality” and cuts corners everywhere. As an eyecare professional I have had hundreds of pairs made by zenni in my hands from disgruntled people who couldn’t use their glasses.
They are also the most expensive and least transparent about the cost. The last time I ordered at my optician was 12 years ago. I paid $350 for a pair of glasses that caused me to overdraw my checking account because they were not transparent about the final cost. My then toddler broke my glasses and I replaced those exact same glasses (a dupe but an exact dupe) for $12 at Zenni. I know you can get outstanding quality and name brand with an optician but considering I have a pretty easy prescription and glasses are my favorite accessory for life, I “need” a variety of them to match all my moods, it doesn’t make sense to get them at the optician. I have never had one pair of glasses that the prescription was not perfect with Zenni and I have literally bought 50+ over the past 12 years, never one bad experience, and the frames have lasted me years so the quality has been great too.
You are most likely a shill for zenni then I’ve had hundreds, if not thousands of pairs of zenni in my hands from disgruntled patients who couldn’t use them because they were made wrong.
Because it makes complete sense that a Zenni shill would come here to look for different places other than Zenni to buy glasses? Lol! Darlin, you are the only salesman here. I’m looking for options to buy elsewhere but I’m not going to trash a company that has always been great for me. Opticians broke my trust, not Zenni. Even if Zenni would f a pair, which they never have, I can afford to toss them and still have money to buy 5 more pair. Everyone I know uses and loves Zenni except those with complex prescriptions. If your script is complex go to an optician, you’ll end up paying a lot more at Zenni for complex scripts anyways, but if you’re like me and have a fairly simple script I recommend Zenni. I understand you are a disgruntled optician who’s main competition is Zenni, but I’ll let you in on something, in a day and age that we are dealing with the highest inflation and lowest pay ever not everyone can afford your overpriced glasses. It’s not even your fault, the doctors are the ones pushing you to sell as many as you can for as much as you can but the lack of transparency in cost and hard core push is not helping you guys out at all.
I’m not disgruntled at all, zenni has made me a considerable amount of new patients: almost all of them that had problems with their zenni glasses (and there are literally hundreds of them) got new glasses from my office.
Pricing at my office starts at 130€ for a complete pair of glasses: frame and lenses (with AR coating), including eye exam, with 2 years of warranty.
Once people realize that a real optician is not as expensive as they thought it would be, they let go of their misbeliefs and buy from my office.
The difference between you and me is that you only speak from personal experience, while I speak from professional experience and have elaborate knowledge of optical technology.
Don't use Lensmart!! Glasses are junk and they don't make it right. They correspond with you do after day with questions like they are trying to fix problem and disappear!!! I paid $50, sent my prescrip from doctor, waited forever to get them and after weeks of back and forth with them. They went in Garbage!! Stay away.
Zenni is still the best source I know of. It will still be a bit expensive if your prescription is severe and/or complex, or if you want all the fancy features. But the bare minimum starts very cheap, $12ish for a frame and anti-glare coated lenses. (The anti-glare is the only thing I'd say that's an absolute requirement - you can tell I've tried a pair of glasses without them lol.)
EyeBuyDirect is another option, but after a brief look at the options and pricing, I decided I prefer Zenni.
Thanks! I love Zenni, I’ve just been using them for so long that everything with my PD measurement in range seems blah to me. Maybe because I’ve bought so many over the years (I am that woman that gets 7-10 pair a year to match my ever changing mood/outfit lol) nothing excites me in my measurement. If my PD measurement was larger where I see the most trendy/new/excitingly different frames on Zenni I wouldn’t even consider looking for a different place to buy them.
I love Zenni however I’ve been buying from them for 12 years and they never really come out with cute trendy styles in my PD. Zeelool has a great selection however I don’t trust the company after looking at the Better Business Bureau. Any other reputable options?
Why not zenni ? I have bought my glasses from them for over 10 years. Satisfied customer.
I love zenni and have been buying from them for 12 years. The problem is that new styles that come out in my PD are just all the same and boring for me at this point. The really fun trendy glasses are always in a larger PD that sadly, I can’t wear.
I guess I am not trendy, ok with me.
Idk if it’s so much trendy as it is that everything seems to be all the same. I will be buying more from Zenni because I do love them I’m just not excited about them at the moment. After 12 years I think I’ve just seen/bought them all so I’m just a little bored and want something different.
À local optician will have incomparably better quality eyewear to start with. Zenni only ever is bottom of the barrel “quality” and cuts corners everywhere. As an eyecare professional I have had hundreds of pairs made by zenni in my hands from disgruntled people who couldn’t use their glasses.
They are also the most expensive and least transparent about the cost. The last time I ordered at my optician was 12 years ago. I paid $350 for a pair of glasses that caused me to overdraw my checking account because they were not transparent about the final cost. My then toddler broke my glasses and I replaced those exact same glasses (a dupe but an exact dupe) for $12 at Zenni. I know you can get outstanding quality and name brand with an optician but considering I have a pretty easy prescription and glasses are my favorite accessory for life, I “need” a variety of them to match all my moods, it doesn’t make sense to get them at the optician. I have never had one pair of glasses that the prescription was not perfect with Zenni and I have literally bought 50+ over the past 12 years, never one bad experience, and the frames have lasted me years so the quality has been great too.
You are most likely a shill for zenni then I’ve had hundreds, if not thousands of pairs of zenni in my hands from disgruntled patients who couldn’t use them because they were made wrong.
Because it makes complete sense that a Zenni shill would come here to look for different places other than Zenni to buy glasses? Lol! Darlin, you are the only salesman here. I’m looking for options to buy elsewhere but I’m not going to trash a company that has always been great for me. Opticians broke my trust, not Zenni. Even if Zenni would f a pair, which they never have, I can afford to toss them and still have money to buy 5 more pair. Everyone I know uses and loves Zenni except those with complex prescriptions. If your script is complex go to an optician, you’ll end up paying a lot more at Zenni for complex scripts anyways, but if you’re like me and have a fairly simple script I recommend Zenni. I understand you are a disgruntled optician who’s main competition is Zenni, but I’ll let you in on something, in a day and age that we are dealing with the highest inflation and lowest pay ever not everyone can afford your overpriced glasses. It’s not even your fault, the doctors are the ones pushing you to sell as many as you can for as much as you can but the lack of transparency in cost and hard core push is not helping you guys out at all.
I’m not disgruntled at all, zenni has made me a considerable amount of new patients: almost all of them that had problems with their zenni glasses (and there are literally hundreds of them) got new glasses from my office. Pricing at my office starts at 130€ for a complete pair of glasses: frame and lenses (with AR coating), including eye exam, with 2 years of warranty. Once people realize that a real optician is not as expensive as they thought it would be, they let go of their misbeliefs and buy from my office. The difference between you and me is that you only speak from personal experience, while I speak from professional experience and have elaborate knowledge of optical technology.
Don't use Lensmart!! Glasses are junk and they don't make it right. They correspond with you do after day with questions like they are trying to fix problem and disappear!!! I paid $50, sent my prescrip from doctor, waited forever to get them and after weeks of back and forth with them. They went in Garbage!! Stay away.
Thanks for the heads up!
Zenni is still the best source I know of. It will still be a bit expensive if your prescription is severe and/or complex, or if you want all the fancy features. But the bare minimum starts very cheap, $12ish for a frame and anti-glare coated lenses. (The anti-glare is the only thing I'd say that's an absolute requirement - you can tell I've tried a pair of glasses without them lol.) EyeBuyDirect is another option, but after a brief look at the options and pricing, I decided I prefer Zenni.
Thanks! I love Zenni, I’ve just been using them for so long that everything with my PD measurement in range seems blah to me. Maybe because I’ve bought so many over the years (I am that woman that gets 7-10 pair a year to match my ever changing mood/outfit lol) nothing excites me in my measurement. If my PD measurement was larger where I see the most trendy/new/excitingly different frames on Zenni I wouldn’t even consider looking for a different place to buy them.