I have tried both Zenni and Warby. Warby's frames are much higher quality than Zenni. I'm on my 3rd pair of regulars, and 2nd pair of sunglasses (which are metal, by the way, and very strong), over the course of 4 years. I still have all pairs I ordered, and they are all still fine.

They are not "cheap plastic frames" by any stretch. I'd put them up against the Luxxotica frames any day. They use the high-end plastics, with metal-reinforced stems. The Zenni's I tried, on the other hand, have no reinforcement, and the plastic is definitely more brittle.

Anecdata, but my SO and I both have had frames from them for about a year with no issues, and my mom's had hers for about 6 months and had to bend them quite a bit to fit her and they've been just fine.

So you're saying that the glasses from all these places are cheap/poor quality? That is disappointing.

If you're total price shopping, yes.

If you want a specific frame for some reason, it's a good value. I bought a pair of Oakleys from glasses.com ( a luxottica online outlet) for a savings of about $50 from retail. I think the high index lenses were cheaper too. But if you buy $8 glasses, they are going to be junk.

AFAIK almost all the glasses frames are worth few dollars. What you pay for branded ones is marketing and bit of design, not generally the material quality.

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I've been wearing the same $6 frames from Zenni for the last five years.

i can't say that they are all categorically low quality, but you're obviously not getting premium frames for very low prices. imo it's worth dishing for a pair of spares at the least, though -- but probably not at warby parker prices