Zenni Optical Glasses

I’ve ordered multiple pairs of glasses from therm and they are just as good quality as any store bought pair I’ve owned. Just make sure you are putting an accurate prescription in. The only problem is since you can’t try the frames on beforehand they may not always look as nice on you as you would have thought, however the price is so cheap that you can afford to be hit or miss to a certain extent. When my boss finds a pair from them he likes he orders about 10 and keeps them in a bowl in his house in case he loses a pair he’ll have lots of backups.

Shopping: They ship to Israel?

I get headaches from zenni as well as other online glasses stores. The local Jewish stores have a better quality lense.

They are amazing. People are finally realizing that the mark up on glasses are insane. There is no reason why the same pair of frames sell in the dollar store without a prescription are sold for $100 and up in a glasses store just bec. you want prescription lenses. I have gotten several pairs for myself and my family and they are just as good as you will find anywhere else

slominer, do you know it costs HALF of what Zenni charges to MAKE glasses?

80 percent of the glasses companies in the USA are owned by one company, Luxottica (do a google on them). They also own most of the biggest chain glasses stores and the glasses insurance. In short they have a monopoly on glasses, and even if a new company wants to sell cheaper prices, they also own the stores so they won’t allow them in their stores and the new company won’t make money. Then they buy them out.

In Israel they are cheaper than the USA, but again, I can tell my local glasses shop has the same frames as Zenni, stuff from ebay that costs 5-20 dollars a frame. But they charge 200-800 shekels. Why? Because they know they can.

Do you know how much it costs to make an iphone? 50 dollars? Maybe? They sell at 600 though.

Even the lenses. Both that and the frames only cost 3-15 dollars to make.
The mark- up in insane.

at a 300-1000 dollar markup it IS insane. Glasses were cheaper when your parents needed them!
How sad…a medical necessity for many is so expensive.

Another issue with zenni is that if you have a high prescription above – 600 it automatically jumps up the pricing like 50$ bc they need to do more work with the lense. It’s still cheaper than other glasses

Not all frames and glasses are the same. But they are close.

If your optomotrist is very specific and thorough, Zenni should be fine for most people. Most lenses come in universal, large shapes and are then trimmed to fit the glasses. All lenses are mass produced. If you can automate more of the process, the savings are real.

I believe that they are made in China so yes the labor is cheap and automated. The materials (wire and plastic) are also cheap. Many people will continue to get ripped off in regular glasses stores paying 15-20 times the price and saying ” the quality is just better”

Which optomotrists aren’t specific on a prescription?

Sometimes when I take my kids to the doctor, the doctor asks which band-aid they want.

Some optometrists do the same thing with prescriptions.

Just received my glasses yesterday. I’m in shock, they are better quality than the store on my block who checked my eyes out. The ones in the local stores are much more flimsy.

My eyes are still adjusting as I haven’t worn glasses in a while and my prescription changed, but they look like really good quality glasses. Would highly recommend them. Also it only took 2 weeks to get here.