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US based online contact vendors reject orders without a signed prescription. The doctors intentionally don't sign them. The workaround is to order them from Can
by kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
US based online contact vendors reject orders without a signed prescription. The doctors intentionally don't sign them. The workaround is to order them from Canada
- hunter2_ 2y agoI couldn't find a Canadian (or any foreign) retailer that would ship to the US, but I found tons of US retailers that allow self-entry (as an alternative to uploading a signed prescription) as I described.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoContactsExpress ships to the US. There is at least one other that escapes me.
- refurb 2y ago1-800 contacts will write a prescription for you with a $20 online eye exam. Optomitrist asks if your current prescription is ok, asks you to stand 20ft back and read a few letters and you’ve got a script you can use wherever.
- hunter2_ 2y agoAs will several other retailers, but only in some states. As someone in an excluded state, I considered whether enabling Mock Location on my phone would get me past that check (I think they require you to use a native mobile app, so I assume they use location from that?) but then thought of the method I mentioned earlier instead.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoReading all that, I'm happy my part of Europe is a bit behind the tech curve here. I mean holy fuck, "native mobile app" and "getting contacts" do not belong in the same sentence in any sane universe.
- hunter2_ 2y agoHaha well the thing is, a vision exam requires that you read letters of a certain height from a certain distance while proctored, and presumably this is quite difficult to achieve in telehealth with more open computer systems. Of course some folks can figure out how to break anything (I mean, just plug a projector/TV into your phone with a usb-hdmi adapter and now the letters are huge?) but I think it keeps things easy and reasonably accurate among normies.