Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive

Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by burntrelish1273 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:07PM (#15737463)

Thank you.

Non-Luxopoly choices FTW:

https://madeeyewear.com

https://www.warbyparker.com

Also, VSP is the major vision insurance co. in the US (80M insured).

Perhaps the source of standard retail costs of prescriptions is the negotiation powers of insurance co.'s coupled with insured apathy ("it's not my money").

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by jayess on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:19PM (#15737507)

http://www.zennioptical.com

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by joezydeco on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:01PM (#15737680)

The dog ate my wife's $250 prescription lenses, so she wore her $40 backup pair from Zenni to her eye exam.

After a shitload of "oh, these aren't our lenses", they reluctantly put the glasses in their refractometer. The Zenni lenses matched the prescription perfectly.

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by 1123581321 on Monday November 20, 2017 @12:16AM (#15737979)

I bought a pair of Zennis in 2013. I have a strong prescription and got maxed out UV, indexing, etc. on a (imo) good-looking frame. $75 for what would have cost me $300-400 out of pocket after my vision insurance credit. Additionally, I was able to submit the $75 as an out-of-network expense. It took some paperwork, but the return on my time was worthwhile.

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by pravda on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:57AM (#15738289)

$75? Way to go big spender. ;-)

My latest shipment of Zenni's came in recently.

$28.26 for two pairs. And they came in ten days!

http://www.zennioptical.com

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by dsr_ on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:21AM (#15740002)

Salesguy comes in wearing sharp titanium semi-rimless glasses. Notices that I'm wearing very similar. We compare.

His cost $350. Mine cost $35 including shipping. I bought a backup pair, too.

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by lwhalen on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:52PM (#15737645)

THIS. Before Lasik, I was all about the Zenni Optical.

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by ska on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:27AM (#15740041)

I'm sure some people have had very good experience with zenni, but for what it's worth I gave up after 4 pairs (over about 3 years) that never quite had the right prescription. I had better luck with Warby Parker, but only have a single pair for comparison.

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by whathaschanged on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:24PM (#15737527)

Warbyparker is a ripoff just like all the other middlemen claiming to disrupt an overpriced market. Zenni optical will get you a pair of frames with lenses for under $10. Everything else is paying for personal style preference.

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by imroot on Monday November 20, 2017 @12:10AM (#15737954)

Warbyparker couldn't get my prescription right, even after two remakes. My doctor showed me his prescription, and then showed me how Warbyparker dispensed the lenses. After giving WP two tries to make it right, I just gave up and spent $400 buying two pairs of glasses and a pair of sunglasses from my normal Optometrist (who told me that 'I'd be back' when I mentioned that I wanted to try Warbyparker).

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by walterbell on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:20AM (#15738947)

FramesDirect and EyeBuyDirect are both owned by Essilor, so their lenses are made in Essilor labs (soon merging with Luxottica/Lenscrafters).

Warby Parker opened their own lab this year: https://www.inc.com/magazine/201706/tom-foster/warby-parker-...

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by fern12 on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:58AM (#15738481)

>...and then showed me how Warbyparker dispensed the lenses.

Can you clarify this portion of your comment? I'm interested in hearing whatever insight he gave. I had a similar experience with WP, but I assumed it was due to my tough prescription.

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by hanley on Monday November 20, 2017 @08:42AM (#15739792)

I had a similar experience with Warby. Two attempts to get the prescription right, both sets of lenses were wrong. I don't have a strong prescription, nothing complicated.

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by withdavidli on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:39AM (#15738418)

Trying on frames at their brick and mortar helped my decision making a lot. Every time I have to pick out frames, only a handful looks decent on my face out of more than a thousand.

Did Zenni and 39dollarglasses before. Prescription is okay, but some of the frames came crooked and chipped easily.

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Re:Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive by Grangar on Monday November 20, 2017 @08:51AM (#15739834)

Another good choice is https://www.aceandtate.com/

Quality frames, all-in for €99,-. I'll never visit a brand carrying optometrist again.

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