Am I really a traitor? I guess not but I have felt a few twinges of guilt for ordering my eye glasses online instead of supporting one of my local businesses.

In a previous post I showed you what happened to my last pair of over priced prescription eye glasses and how a friend told me how I could order them on line and pay 1/10th of the price!

Let's See How Easy It is to Order Glasses Online 

Disclaimer: I do not endorse, support or profit from the site that I used which is goggles4u.com. They claim to have over 2,000 pairs of frames to choose from.

Here Are The Steps That I Took

1.) Once on the site you can choose from men's frames, women's frames or children's frames. Since I'm a man (although not half the man I used to be) I chose men's

2.) Once there I was confronted with hundreds of pairs of frames which can be filtered according to price, material  frame type, size, frame style, frame shape and color!

There were almost too many to choose from but I selected the ones that interested me the most and "tried them on"!

3.) Once you click on a pair that interests you, you can see various views of it, examine other colors, read up on its specs and look at reviews. (see opening photo)

4.) I picked out 12 that I "thought" I liked and proceeded to "try them on"!

5.) To try them on you take a picture of yourself, upload it and start the fashion show!

I liked "trying the glasses on" a lot more here than at the store! Ya I know..I should have smiled! Does your personality really change based on the glasses that you wear? Perhaps people's first impressions of you change!

6.) From these 12 models I decided to buy 3 pairs and so I headed to the next step of selecting the lenses. First you have to put in all of the details for your prescription.

At this stage I input the prescription details that I received from the optomatrist.

7.) The next step is to input the info for the type of lenses that you want. The basic ones are "free" but then of course there are tinted, scratch resistant, bifocal, progressive etc.. etc... you get the picture! I chose option 3 for $22.95

Here you can choose the different lenses and by clicking on the question mark you can read all of the pertinent details. 

8.) I repeated the same procedure and bought 3 pairs. One pair of regular glasses for distance, one pair of sun glasses for distance and one pair of bifocals. I don't need reading glasses but I have to take off the distance glasses to read so I decided to give the bifocals a try.

9.) It was now time to go to the check-out and pay. Luckily for me I had money in my paypal account which was a re-imbursement from an airline for a delayed flight! Cool!

Here you can see my order for three pairs of glasses for a total of $180.69 including express shipping!

Advantages And Disadvantages of Buying my Glasses Online

Advantages: speed, convenience and price!

Disadvantages: I didn't "really" get to try them on and there's a lot to be said for holding and wearing the glasses before buying them! I'm also not sure if I'll get whacked for any additional shipping charges or taxes. Stay Tuned!

In A Future Post I'll Review My Purchase Once The Glasses Arrive

I hope that you enjoyed this online purchase review!

Until next time,

@kus-knee (The Old Dog)

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