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| I've been going to the Wolfe Eye Clinic since one eye went opaque about a year ago. Seeing medical doctors that are eye specialists. Turned into a detached retina, then the treatment for that destroyed the lens so there was a cataract replacement lens operation.
I found their technicians doing the eye tests depend a lot on me, the observer. If we accept second class results we get second class glasses. If we want better glasses we have to look for the sharpest image with the least ghosting, not just an image we can read.
Some of the clinic facilities include a vendor of glasses, some don't. Some of their "clinics" are only places to sell glasses. I have been through several changes in the past year. The first glasses I was impatient and went to One Hour Optical and they did single vision in one hour for $200. Then my medical eye doctor mentioned Zenni Optical on line. Since then I have bought several pairs from them, sometimes adjusting the prescription myself to accommodate differences I thought I detected. Like that first prescription was so different from no glasses at all that I was almost pleased without complete correction of the remaining original eye. Later more critical tests showed the correction could be improved. But at less than $20 a pair for single vision glasses delivered, I can and did experiment.
They do notice if you buy two pair with different prescriptions and they don't represent the same distance change and will be reluctant to do those. Compromises need to be on separate orders.
Zenni Optical has a US office, but makes the glasses in China with Swiss machinery. Takes about 3 weeks from order to arrival with a California post mark. I suspect they place the orders by internet and ship by air freight container in bulk and then mail from California. The glasses frames need adjustment, especially in the nose pads and ear pieces to fit comfortably. They choose where the line is when doing bifocals. I took a bifocals prescription to One Hour Optical and I picked the location of that line, (poorly I learned using them) and put the lenses into the frames I had bought from them 6 or 7 months earlier. They also filed a claim with medicare but I've not seen any result from that yet. Bifocals took just over two hours to make and lenses only were about $170.
Last I looked at Walmart's optical stores, they took three weeks delivery too.
I didn't order the cheapest frames from Zenni, could have saved more money, but I preferred metal frames to plastic frames.
Gerald J. | |
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Chain store eye exam??
