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Just came back from specsavers after having my eyetest and don't really want to buy there as there is the base price and all the other lens options that bumps up the bill.
Can anyone recommend a good alternative?
Cheers
Pound shop.
Yes, seriously.
Get a proper prescription done - Mrs Danny got a nice enough pair from boots for £50 - cheap reading glasses will likely just naff your vision up further.
Yep, want proper prescription lenses, as prescription is quite different for each eye.
Primark. £1. Sometimes 50p. Really.
Don't go to the pound shop then.
I think what you want are just called "glasses", though I'm not an optician (unfortunately).
Depends what you want. We have used RX Sport, Opticshop and Selectspecs for Oakleys at about a third of Visionexpress prices with alot more choice
Incorrect glasses can cause twisting of the retinal threads leading to Thrimptons squint, get some proper gigz tightwad !!!
Don't fk about with your eyesight. Get some proper glasses, not some cheap Chinese excuses for actual lenses. What do you wear for shoes, carved out tree trunks? No, proper shoes I imagine, that fit properly.
I normally get from rxsport
Needed an eye test and a pair of glasses quick as I broke my Oakley's (6 years old had 3 sets of lenses through them ) replaced with a pair from Specsavers as I could have the test next day and the glasses in 2 days.
80 quid all in from their "branded" range which appears to some cheap junk with "brands" stuck on the side.
They are about as comfy long term as I'd expect an 80 quid pair of glasses to be.
Where i can pick up a pair of any Oakley's(so far anyway- I've had a few) and wear them all day and not notice them these things put pressure on my nose and my ears and I know they are there after an hour or so - which was exactly the reason I stopped going to spec savers and bought Oakley's the first time round.
A new pair of Oakley's is on "the list" (and it's not even just because the name ...... My last Oakley's were badged so small and had no big O on the side you would only know if you read the inner leg) they were just bloody well made and fitted .
Cheers all, looks like rxsport and oakleys are the place to be. Cheers.
I'd get a proper pair done by your optician to leave at home and then buy a couple of decent ready readers for out and about, John Lewis do good ones for about £20, Boots do some good fold up ones for about £25, Foster Grant if memory serves me, I had a set for years but my prescription has drifted so need to get another set.
Really cheap readers are rubbish, Poundland etc, fine for glancing at something but hopeless if you actually want to read for any length of time.
I’ve got some rimless readers from eBay with flexible titanium one-piece arms, like these:
Mine were $15, but there are loads around cheaper than that. I recently got new prescription glasses from Specsavers with identical arms, that cost me £180...
For reading small text they are perfectly fine, very light and comfy, the flex arms make it easy to hang them round my neck when I’m not using them.
Get a £25 pair from Speccies, leave off the trimmings see how they go.
You can go add stuff or upgrade within 3 months if you want something fancy.