I’ve seen a lot of questions about what to do if the glasses providers near you don’t offer a good (or any) selection of frames for such young kids. I know some of you are in this situation, any recommendations or advice? I am realizing just how spoiled we are by our local children’s eyeglasses place that’s one mile down the road from us.
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Oh man I have to try this! I would really be able to afford Aubrie a pair of sunglasses off this website! At the eye glasses store a 2nd pair of sunglasses were $250 so we passed! It was insane! Thanks!
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I’ve ordered lots of glasses from Zenni Optical for my son – mostly spares and also Prescription sunglasses. They tint for only $4.95 extra!!!!
You do need to know their PD and have their prescription handy and be patient – the shipping takes a couple of weeks. The savings is phenomenal though.
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I really love the idea of using Zenni for sunglasses, too! If it’s that inexpensive, it seems silly not to.
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I think it is great and we will also look into it. My worry is that I’ll be putting the worng perscription on my child. Our PO, however, has us bring in the glasses so they can check to make sure the perscription was filled correctly. I think this is wonderful and would hope all PO’s do this for our kids. We don’t make appointments for these, just stop in and they check them.
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We live in a city that is south of a lot of reservations and tiny isolated communities. Yesterday when picking out my daughter’s first pair of glasses at a local place that deals a lot with toddlers/kids, I met a woman who had to fly into the city for one day to get her daughter’s glasses fixed (cataracts) and fly back home. $600. While she was upbeat and happy to be getting it done, I was a little shocked that she would have to go to these lengths.
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