Where's the cheapest place to buy eyeglasses?

chaska

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Mon May-17-04 10:28 PM
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Where's the cheapest place to buy eyeglasses?

There was a place in Seattle that sold two pair for the shockingly low price of $60. Is there anything like that is the Los Angeles area? If not, which is the cheapest of the usual suspects?

Has anybody checked into online buying. Seems like you oughta be able to go try on a pair in person at a let's say lens crafters and then buy the same exact style (manufactured by the same company) from another company for cheap online.

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Speck Tater

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Mon May-17-04 10:31 PM
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1. The Goodwill store has bins full of them.

Just dig around till you find a pair that works for you. ;)

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Systematic Chaos

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Mon May-17-04 10:33 PM
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2. You might want to check for an America's Best in LA.

There aren't any in Las Vegas, but there was one in Phoenix very close to where my fiancee lived. She took me there because I needed some prescription sunglasses for driving from Vegas to Phoenix and I ended up with two new pair of glasses that are very nice, for about $190. Mind you, I have a large head so I needed wide frames and that brought the cost up about $50, plus I had special things done with the lenses that cost extra. If I'd gone the cheapest route I think the total would have been about $125. The glasses are guaranteed for a full year, too.

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chaska

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Mon May-17-04 11:20 PM
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3. Anybody know the name of the glasses chain in Fred Meyer stores?

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DieboldMustDie

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Mon May-17-04 11:31 PM
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4. It seems to me glasses need to be fitted to the individual...

so I don't see how buying on line would work very well.

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OneBlueSky

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Tue May-18-04 12:23 AM
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5. Costco . . . n/t

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TheWizardOfMudd

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Tue May-18-04 12:24 AM
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6. Walgreen's

You'll get dizzy and blurry and fall down with those glasses, but they are cheap as hell!

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