up to $115 off $290 @ Lenscrafters

[Rally1]

if you happen to be buying at Lenscrafters anytime soon, these may help:

due to the coupon rules here i cant link right to the coupons, but fill this out, and you will see them on the next page, and print them out.

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be sure to use your real info so you can get lots of spam, and bulk mail

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[JEDI]

thx.

i lost my magetic clip-ons my glasses i bought at lens crafters. replacement ones cost $70. got any deals/coupons for that?

 

[Pothead]

The best deal at lenscrafter is knowing a person that works there. They get coupons for 50% off.

 

[HiveMaster]

Don't wanna thread crap here, but you realize that the people who finish at the bottom of the class in optometry school usually end up at places like this?

Sorry but when it comes to MY EYES, I would really rather deal with someone who is really good at what he does.

 

[Pothead]

Let's clear something up, Lenscrafters is an optician store, not an optometrist. They carry the lenses and frames.

 

[Mike7]

My ophthalmologist graduated in the top third of her class at Johns Hopkins. (We were classmates as undergrads.) She's the doctor I trust with the health of my eyes.

The guy at Lens Crafters who helps me pick out eyeglass frames, or who tells me how much extra the anti-glare coating will cost, could be a high school drop-out for all I care.

I'm not knocking Lens Crafters. It is, in fact, where I go for eyeglasses. But when I go for an eye exam, I go to an ophthalmologist. Not an optician.

Then again, I take my eyesight seriously. Maybe because without glasses or contacts I'm damn near blind as a bat. (With contacts, I can see well enough to compete in 600 yard rifle matches -- iron sights-- and to be an avid amateur astronomer. Been wearing contacts for 23 years, btw. And have healthy eyes, perhaps in part because I seldom wear my contacts for more than a day at a time, even though lots of people wear 'em a week at a time.)(And may the gods bless the guy who invented soft toric lenses. I can bear living in a world without a cure for the common cold, but I'd be miserable living in a world without soft torics.)

 

[gopunk]

i feel that their glasses are pretty good, in terms of performance.

but i'm not satisfied with their frame selection... they just don't have ones that look good, imo. i had to go to a different eyeglass store to get glasses that i liked. plus, the service really sucks imo. maybe it's just the one that is close to me, but i hate all the b!tches that work there.

anyways, good deal if you like their frames. custserv is not really that big of a concern i guess.

 

[Rally1]

i dont need or use glasses, just happened upon the deal.

i keep lookin at this computer screen i will soon though.....

 

[Buz2b]

Lenscrafters is famous for the "bait and switch" method of selling. 99% of their "great deals" only work if you want one of their lower priced, POS frames and 99% of their customers can't/don't/won't buy them. Any "bump" up in quality will cost you dearly. Just my (recent) experience.

 

[daddyo]

Funny lenscrafters story.

A few years ago I bought a pair of glasses there. A few days later, the screw fell out and my glasses fell apart. No big deal, I'm an engineer, I understand that these things happen. I didn't have a replacement screw, so I just took the glasses back to the store to have them put a new screw in. They are usually really good about fixing things like this, quick and easy. So I walk in, explain the situation, and the girl takes my glasses and walks off into the lab to fix them up. After 10 minutes, I'm beginning to worry. It's 1 screw, and it should take 30 seconds. Finally, the girl returns, and hands me my glasses, still in pieces. She had tried to install the wrong size screw, overtightened, and broke the thread off in the hole. They didn't have an exact replacement for the glasses, in fact, no store on the east coast did, and I'd spent a LOT of time looking for them. Instead, they offered me any set of glasses in the next tier down. If you were watching closely, you probably could have seen the veins in my forehead bursting at that moment. I proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes ranting and raving at progressively higher authorities at the shop until I walked out of there with a damn nice pair of specs that were quite a bit more expensive than the ones I had.

There is no moral to the story, but it certainly was entertaining.