Re:Warby Parker built a 1,400-employee company by focusing o...
by bdavis__ on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @07:55PM
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I have been buying glasses from my optometrist for decades. A pair runs about $500, after insurance.
Dropped by Warby Parker on a lark (they have a store a few miles away). The glass tech looked over my glasses and told me the optical center was wrong by a bit; OK for 99% of prescriptions but that error was significant due to my prescription. (my corrected vision is 20/50 in both eyes)
Ordered 1 pair. Noticeably better eyesight. For about $200.
Re:Warby Parker built a 1,400-employee company by focusing o...
by karmelapple on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @07:09PM
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I’ll throw another anecdote on the pile that I really hoped WP would be great, but after multiple trips back to the store to get my glasses adjusted and even have new lenses put in, I won’t be going with them for my next pair. The cheap glasses from Zenni Optical I got years ago had better lenses with no problems, unlike Warby Parker.
It’s the biggest disappointment in buying glasses in my 18 years of wearing glasses.
1. "Cheap plastic". Is there expensive plastic, really? I've owned much more expensive (but still plastic-framed) glasses and have never noticed a difference in quality.
2. "Very poor fit". Fair enough, I will offer though that I had a fitting at one of their brick-and-mortar locations and the glasses I got fit very well.
3. "Lenses that easily scratched". The details on their lens offerings are here, https://www.warbyparker.com/lenses . Again, not a problem I have encountered.
I don't doubt that there are better glasses than Warby Parker, but I'd bet that they're as good as if not better than basically everything up to the 90ish percentile range.