Glasses - soooo expensive!

The brave I but last years. As they can be reglazed. But they are pricing themselves out of the market.

i accidentally broke my glasses a few weeks ago. Went to get a like for like replacement, as I loved the ones I had. Was expecting about £500. (Expensive brand.) Almost had a heart attack, when I was quoted £930. I made a claim on my house insurance. Also need new sunglasses and new lenses would be £3-500. I regret being talked into baby vari focals

I got a pair of varifocals from Asda for £45 There's no way could I afford hundreds for a pair, I assume they aren't as good as a more expensive pair but they do the job.
I need glasses for reading and with my work it's not constant so if I used just readers they'd be on and off my head all day long which just isn't practical and I lost a pair in my first week too doing that!

Unless you’re buying crazy expensive frames that’s way too much for a normal prescription.

I just spent £40 for some for my kid while he waits for his Specsavers ones, bargain.

If you get contact lenses on the monthly scheme from Specsavers, you get a good discount on glasses.

You really do get what you pay for with varifocal lenses. If you're happy with a narrow area of vision then you can technically get cheap varifocals from specsavers, vision express etc. Most people wouldn't be happy with such a narrow space to see with and excessive distortions so they don't usually bother mentioning them.

2 pairs for £500 is reasonable considering you'll likely use then all day everyday for 2 years and tbh you can't put a price on clear comfortable vision - no shortcuts when it comes to health!

Online mpanies like firmoo do them at a fraction of the price and excellent quality. Xx

I have a very simple and mild prescription and I paid about £500 for my last two pairs of glasses at Boots. So I don't think what you are paying is unreasonable. We wear glasses every day, so just think how good the cost per wear is. Much cheaper than clothes.

My last pair of glasses were £1435. £500 is a bloody bargain.

I don’t have an unusual prescription but I do use an optician that likes to tell me they don’t accept NHS 97 times every time I call.

Specsavers are very reasonable

The varifocal lenses bump the price up.
Mind you, I was quoted getting on for £400 at Boots for two pairs with single vision lenses. It was 2nd pair half price too! I got the details of the frames I really liked and found them much cheaper online.

I have similar glasses from specsavers and they cost about £150. They sneak so many extras on that are not necessary.
I queried it with them once and got them to give me a break down of cost, it resulted in them reduced the price by hundreds.

Is there much difference between Specsavers and Vision Express?

I'm entitled to free glasses but I spent just over £100 on a nice pair at Specsavers and they snapped in half in less than a year. I was so upset and they refused to accept it could be a design fault and wouldn't replace them. I said I don't think they are fit for purpose if they snap in less than a year but they didn't want to know.

I moved to Asda a couple of years ago, after I broke my £550 variable from my local independent optician whilst I was working away from home.

I have not been dissapinted at all. Nor has my bank balance!

glasses direct are super cheap BUT i dont know if you can with varifocals?

Glasses direct have gone massively downhill. I’ve had to email them for quite a straightforward refund and I’ve still not had it and I just keep getting copy and paste replies from an overseas call centre type thing. I used them for years before this but never again.

And they stopped their home trials. They’re absolute dog shit now.

I get mine from Asda. My eyes are deteriorating at such a fast pace that I need a new set every year, so I’m not paying out £500 every 12mths. Last time I got Ralph Lauren frames, and sunglasses, for about £200m but it turned out I am allergic to the frames of the glasses. They changed them with no fuss, which I was pleased about because it wasn’t their fault,

Single vision and quite a mild prescription I imagine?

Varifocals, astigmatism and a lens power of more than +- 3 makes a huge difference!

They’re a necessity - I literally couldn’t function without mine, so every other year I pay £500 for a new designer pair and pay £21 a month on contacts. The alternative is bumping in to everything, not being able to read and never driving. It’s worth it.

It's ridiculous. I used to do it online but that's difficult due to varifocals. Mine were over £300 a few weeks ago. However, I think Specsavers do reglazing, they will use your old frames and that should work out cheaper.

Yeah maybe, I’ve had an awful experience with Asda. The lenses were just awful, with varifocals there are different grades of lenses with different amounts of distortion at the edges (eg specsavers “tailor made” ones are their top ones for £180 I think and the bottom is £70), the Asda ones are on a level with the cheapest specsavers ones, which is probably okay if you’ve not tried the better ones or have a lower prescription (as the more complex the prescription the more distortion there is regardless of whatever lens you choose), but I just couldn’t get on with them at all. I have to say though they were very nice about it and refunded them without any issue, even the woman said if you’ve had better lenses before ie independent ones or top level ones you’ll struggle with theirs. They are very good value for standard lenses etc though.

Asda every time for me too! 2 pairs varifocals, extra thinning and transitions for £199

Same ! My last glasses were 1200 for two pairs because of the lens not the frame.
Need retesting now but putting it off because of the cost
Never mind teeth!!!