I lost my prescription sunglasses this weekend. ALL I do with them is cycle, ski and run off the bike with them; I don’t wear them for fashion or everyday use. What is the cheapest way to get a replacement pair, trying to find something decent but don’t want to spend $300.00. Any tips?
Zennioptical.com Have used them for a while now. No complaints
I’ve yet to do this for sun glasses but for the last few years all my prescription glasses have been purchased from zenni optical. The mark up on glasses is incredible. Nearly all the makers of frames in the US and Europe are owned by a single company and they keep the prices jacked up. You can get tinted or photo-gray from Zenni with lots of different style frames.
YMMV,
Hugh
Perhaps these may not work - but I only need reading glasses - and so my scrip is 2.0 - but Dual Sunglasses are really cool and they are bi-focal type - hope this helps.
I have ordered both standard RX and RX sunglasses from Zenni. I think they are a great value and they have literally over a 1,000 frames. But regarding RX sunglasses I am not sure their frames would work well for cycling. Ironically i ordered a pair yesterday and they have a free tinting promo going on this week.
If anyone has a zenni frame they would recommend for cycling please post it.
Best,
Greg
I get my Jawbone Rx lenses from FramesDirect.com.
Hello Slugas and All,
Call Dr. Brian Boxer-Wachler (Previously located at Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA) and donate your prescription glasses to a worthy cause … then use $10 sun glasses the rest of your life.
Cheapest way to go.
Dr. Brian is not the cheapest however …but it is probably worth a little more to get the best when you are buying eye surgery.
And if you are kidnapped, glasses crushed, you will still be able to see to escape.
And if you go overboard you will be able to see to swim to safety.
And during the triathlon swim you will be able to see the buoys and find the finish beach.
Well … do you see the picture? …
Before
465 N. Roxbury Dr. Suite 902, Beverly Hills, CA. 90210
Phone: 310.594.5209
After …
"Keratoconus Athlete Wins Gold Medal at 2010 Winter Olympics!
Steven Holcomb, U.S. Bobsled Driver and Keratoconus Patient Wins The 2010 Olympic Gold Medal 4-Man Bobsled - First in 62 Years! "
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/us/20eye.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Cheers,
Neal
+1 mph Faster
These guys are all the rage with the hipsters, but they dont have sport glasses. So it doesnt help your current predicament, but maybe a future one
+1 on warby parker. They’re not “sports” sunglasses, but you’ll be fine. Get them fitted properly. Turnaround is pretty quick, about a week I think. -J
I lost my prescription sunglasses this weekend. ALL I do with them is cycle, ski and run off the bike with them; I don’t wear them for fashion or everyday use. What is the cheapest way to get a replacement pair, trying to find something decent but don’t want to spend $300.00. Any tips?
Two options:
Online ones like Zenni are super-cheap. Heck, I use ‘em for normal glasses and they’re excellent. The reality is that luxxotica is the megacorporation that owns the major brands of glasses, sunglasses, (it’s essentially a monopoly masqurading as multiple businesses - Sunglass Hut, Oakley, etc., - all owned/run by Luxxotica. Look it up, has been covered in the news and podcasts. This monopoly allows them to charge the bejeezes out of you for glasses that cost <$10 to manufacture. You get around this by ordering from truly individual optics dealers that arent’ beholden to luxxotica, but you then also give up the branding access that luxxotica controls.)
My Zenni daily use glasses were $35, full prescription, and have been outstanding for past 3 years.
Thanks all, just ordered from Zenni. Good advice, less than $100.00 with expedited shipping. They’re not a fashion statement for me so I’m cool with it.
Glad to hear you found a solution. It’s time for me to jump on a pair too as my old prescription sun glasses are more than 10 years old. Which frames did you decide on?
Hugh
Ummm, blue plastic half rim frame with 80% gray.
How is depth perception? When taking a sharp corner, does the road 25 feet ahead (and 90* to the right) warp at all?