How to buy eyeglass online
9 September 2007I was nervous about buying eyeglasses online so here are a few things that I recommend in order to get the most out of your money:
Go shopping first. Since you can’t try the glasses on, shop around at your local stores & pay attention to mm size & then buy similar glasses online.
Read reviews of the company that you are shopping with.
Have low expectations. Well maybe have reasonable expectations. It’s just that there are a dozen things that go wrong online when buying something as detailed as eyeglasses. I probably wouldn’t order glasses that I needed right away. Especially when sometimes you can pay as low as $8. I went into it with the attitude that if my glasses didn’t work for me, I’d just donate them. Be aware of the companies return policy.
Know your DPI. I don’t know exactly what this is, I think it’s the distance between your pupils. Just to make things really exciting, a lot of prescriptions won’t have the DPI on them but you need this to order glasses online. It’s possible to measure this yourself, but I just went to the eyeglass place & when I asked for my prescription they offered to measure the DPI free.
