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> Although making a simple pair of glasses costs just a few dollars, in large parts of the world, cheap glasses are neither made nor sold. And yet prescription
by thayne 4y ago
> Although making a simple pair of glasses costs just a few dollars, in large parts of the world, cheap glasses are neither made nor sold.
And yet prescription glasses cost two orders of magnitude more than that.
- walterbell 4y agoYou can buy glasses from online sites owned by the world's largest lens manufacturer who sells the identical lenses to B&M stores. Requires some work to find the right fit between frame and face, but this can be learned. Online price includes one free lens remake, if adjustments are needed.
- steelbrain 4y ago> You can buy glasses from online sites owned by the world's largest lens manufacturer who sells the identical lenses to B&M stores Link please!
- walterbell 4y agohttps://www.essilorluxottica.com/ https://www.essilorluxottica.com/ & https://www.essilor.com/en/the-group/activities-and-distribution/distribution/ https://www.essilor.com/en/the-group/activities-and-distribu... > The Essilor group has set out to develop this channel with the acquisition of pure-player FramesDirect®, EyeBuyDirect®, Coastal®, Clearly®, VisionDirect, MyOptique, elens, eOtica and Coolwinks. I've used EyeBuyDirect (US), who recently merged with Coastal (Canada).
- dekhn 4y agoOh, huh. I w as getting my lenses from Coastal and Clearly.
- mapt 4y agoThey don't outside of the US. A good portion of my eyeglasses (custom prescription, with astigmatism correction) have been <$10 drop shipped to the US from Hong Kong, frames and lenses included. The most expensive variations (Transition sunglasses, complicated plastics to be thinner, memory metal frames) were $70, frames and lenses included. Most pairs end up in the $20-$40 range shipped. All this $150-$600 nonsense in the US just pays for the retail space, the branding, the insurance bureaucracy, and rent-seeking by the Luxxotica cartel. The downside is that I don't get to try them on beforehand... but nothing so far has been totally unwearable, and buying six pairs for $200, as I did once, addresses that concern pretty well.