Y'all i just ordered glasses and contacts online for the first time and I have Opinions.
I turned 26 not too long ago which meant I was taken off my dad's vision insurance, which I had been on for at least half of my life, once I started needing glasses at like age 10. Luckily, we've been going to the same optometrist for my entire life so it's not like I had to find a new doctor and have my records sent over, which would have been a pain.
Anyway, I hadnt been to get my eyes checked in about 5 years so I went this past June and found out that not only had my eyes gotten Significantly Worse without me noticing, but i would now have to get new glasses and contect lenses. And that meant having to confront the REAL price of glasses and contacts, because I had previously relied on my parents to pay for them. The only times I had actualltly seen the price was when I had bought a set of rx colored contacts and when i was picking out my previous glasses frames.
Shits expensive, guys. The colored contacts were over US$100 for a box of 6 contacts, and my glasses frames were over US$200 because they're titanium, not even including the cost of the lenses that went in them.
So I was pleasantly surprised when I was ordering new glasses just now through Zenni, when I was able to get 2 pairs of glasses, each with little custom clip-on sunglasses, for ~US$70 each. I'm talking correction high enough that it made me select a high-index option to make the lenses not as thick, plus an anti-reflective coating, plus clip on shades made to the specific shape of the lenses--all for about $70 a pair.
And then 1800Contacts figuratively shot me in the kneecaps with that same $110 price tag for contacts. Evidently, while eyeglasses are something we've figured out how to make cheaper, contact lenses are not, and I got a slight discount for it being my first order from those guys, so it came out to ~US$85 per box of six lenses. Which wouldnt be that bad if my eyes needed the same correction, but since theyre different, I had to get several boxes. At least these contacts can be worn to sleep ans last a month.
