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How to buy the discount frames online?

December 13th, 2009

Discount frames are favored by many people nowadays, especially young people, since they like to shop on the Internet and they may need more than one frame to satisfy their needs. But one concern is if the discount frame has compromise on price together with quality. According to the research, there are indeed some quality and discount frames. The reason for this is these discount frames come directly from manufacturers. Sellers of discount frames have their own factories and these products are under the same quality control, tested by certified, professional people as those sold in retail locations. Discount frames are usually sold on the Internet, so that they can get free of additional costs that traditional retail have, e.g. costs for space renting, employees’ salary, warehousing, etc. And these parts of expense, in return, go to the public to help them save a part of money from the discount frame.

Then how to get the discount frame on the Internet? Is it complicated? There are simply three steps to follow: First, you have to select the discount frame categories as you like. Second, you can try on the discount frames you chose. Usually there is a virtual mirror on the page which can help you see how the frame look like on different people of different gender, color, face shape etc. The online try-on system permits you to upload your own pictures to see whether the discount frame suits you or not. Last, after filling in all the necessary information, you can just wait for discount frames delivered to you.

Of course, most of the online discount frame stores not only sell the discount frames, but also help fitting the lenses as per your prescriptions. The also sell full pair of eyeglasses in discount frames.

Be Careful Of Cheap Glasses

November 16th, 2009

Buying glasses are originally an expensive exercise. In ancient times, only the nobles could afford to purchase eyeglasses to see things clearly. Although in modern time, glasses have been in mass production, they are usually costly, especially when you want to buy a pair of glasses of high quality.

Fortunately, there have been many websites and stores claiming that cheap prescription specs are available, even some 75% off the normal retail price. It makes the general public excited. However, I want to remind them that when you prepare to purchase a pair of those cheap specs either on internee or in stores, ask yourself: how good are these cheap specs? Are they as qualified as those priced high? As an old saying goes, “you get what you pay for”.

Eyes are so important to us. They might be, given the choice, the most important among the five senses. It is with the eyes are we able to observe this beautiful world and tell right from wrong. Therefore, to purchase a pair of qualified glasses is a must, or our precious eyes may be harmed unconsciously.

Therefore struggling between the two minds of protecting eyes and saving money, how can you get a balance? Do you have to abandon one for the other?

Maybe it would be not so complicated. As long as you find ways to search relative information concerning the retailers, making sure their specs are good, you can have two hares at the same time. Then how to research? Here are some tips:

If you are going to buy cheap glasses on websites, you are necessary to always look at the About Us page to obtain the sellers’ qualifications and operating history. If possible, find the certificate of quality. Usually, the supplier will up load them in their websites. Therefore, if there is not, may be it is an implication that you should take a second thought about the glasses quality they supply. Moreover, make sure there is money back policy, which means if you are not satisfied with the glasses, or something happen to the glasses, you can ask for your money back.

Another simple way is check whether the supplier is credible or not is to type his name or his store’s name into the Goolge to check if there have been any major problems.

If you are going to buy cheap glasses in stores, things come to be simpler. You can use a supplier who someone you know has recommended.

Keep those tips in mind when you choose cheap glasses either on Internet or in local stores. Then you are more probably to choose a pair of glasses of good quality, or at least those worthy your money.

I once have tried to buy a pair of glasses on Internet. By those tips, I finally got one beyond my expectation. I mean with a little amount of money I was able to purchase a pair that maybe prices four times higher in exclusive stores. If you are careful enough, you can have a try as well.

How to select eyeglasses wisely?

November 13th, 2009

For eyeglasses wearers, even for those who wear glasses for many years, they may still feel difficult and puzzled to select the suitable glass for them. But as we all know, to choose the right pair of glasses with right frames and lenses is critical not only to our vision, but also can play a important role in our appearance and disposition. So we should pay special attention to this. The following will give some advice on how to select eyeglasses wisely.

First, lenses are the point which counts most. Make sure to choose the lens according to your eye problem and eyes’ requirement. For example, if you like light-weighted, scratch resistant lens, polycarbonate lens is a recommended one. Besides, different colors of lenses should be used under different conditions. When you are in a muted environment, it is better to wear yellow tinted lenses; under strong sunshine, amber color is a better choice, but eye doctors usually do not recommend rose color as it is not soft. Another point for the glass color is we should choose the color suits our skin color, which will add some points to our appearance and disposition. After choosing the right color, we can not neglect the shape of lenses, like square, oval or circle, which mainly depend on our face shapes.

Second, the frame is also an important factor in choosing suitable glasses. Nowadays, there are several types of frames, like full frame, half frame and frameless. And the materials of frames are also different, like metal, wood and so on. If you want to have a wide range to select, you can visit some online eyeglass stores. There you can get some suggestions. For some online shops, you can also try on new glasses you are interested in. This is very simple. It is only need to put your photo into the system they designed, and then try on different kinds of glasses to see which is suitable for you. When choosing frames, please note if you are allergic to some materials, as some people are allergic to metals. Then the second point is to choose the one suit your face and make your disposition impressive.

When wearing glasses, you must be careful to some discomforts, and if you have, visit your eye doctor immediately. Even if we don’t feel any discomforts, you should also visit the eye doctor to do some eye tests at a regular time in order to know our eyes’ status and find some small or potential eye problems.

How to select a fashion frame for your eyeglasses?

October 30th, 2009

When you can not see clear or can’t focus on things, you probably need a pair of eyeglasses. Today’s optical industry is actually a part of fashion clothing industry, and you can shop for fashion frame for your glasses just like shopping for clothes and apparel.

Designers from fashion industry are entering the world of designing of all types of fashion frames, so virtually you can find any fashion frame for any taste and styles to meet your face and personality. A good pair of fashion frame can make you the center of some attentions both on the street and in the office, which also greatly enhance your glamour and uniqueness.

If you are stern or formal looking, look for fashion frames which suit you the best; if you are vivid and lovely, look for stylish and trendy frames.

Men can choose from variety of fashion eyeglass frames. Fashion frame made of high quality metals will be the choice of priority. These fashion frames show perfect finishing, durability as well as lightweight, give people a look of maturity, strength and confidence.

Women’s choices are even more exciting. It all depends on your affordability, taste and liking. A bold and thick plastic fashion frame makes you lovely and sprightly. Women may also choose metal fashion frame t show your tact, or a rimless fashion frame to show most of your natural beauty of your eyes and face.

Choices for fashion eyeglass frames are endless. For women, choosing fashion frame, just like choose cosmetics and clothes, is never a boring job.

Tips for cheap contact lenses

October 23rd, 2009

Some tips are useful if you want to get cheap contact lenses. Contact lenses are available from various sources and brands as well as in significantly different prices. The following tips provide help in getting cheap contact lens.

Forget some assumptions about cheap contact lenses. Cheap contact lenses are not always provided only by online stores or independent eye care practitioners. Do not assume that you can get cheap contact lens from any seller who offers one particular lens for less.

Contact lenses price may vary considerably in different sources. For cheap contact lens, you need to evaluate all your options including optical stores, mass merchants, Internet sites and eye doctors.

Rebates are helpful to get cheap contact lenses. There are four types of rebates: rebate from the seller, rebate from the manufacturer, rebate for first-time contact lenses wearers and rebate for individuals who buy lenses and get an eye exam. Even taken advantage of only one rebate, cheap contact lenses are ensured.

Health insurance also helps in getting cheap contact lens. Most of the vision insurance programs provide vision benefits including cheap contact lens.

You should consider other factors in addition to cheap contact lenses since price is only one component. Convenience, customer service and bundled products are also important.

By ordering larger quantities, customers can get cheap contact lenses since shipping costs will be removed.

To ensure your cheap contact lens, you should do the math when ordering online, because some websites may be deceptive when totaling your order.

How to find the cheap frames?

October 21st, 2009

Cheap frames hereby do not just refer to frames of lower or the lowest price, but also with the same quality as the “expensive” ones or same products but higher price e.g. in retail divisions or specialty stores. Maybe you are confused and think it impossible now. But we will talk about how to find the cheap frame.

First, we can try to find manufacturers of the cheap frame directly. You know this is the basic way to cut some profits and cost off, just including their manufacturing benefits. And in this way, you don’t need to pay the retailers’ profits and all kinds of cost. Meanwhile, cheap frames are under the same quality control with others sold in retail divisions. And how can we find manufacturers for the cheap frame directly? You may visit some shopping sites like E-bay. There is a lot of information about manufacturers’ outlets of cheap frames. Then talk with them according to their contact information about the price to get these cheap frames.

Second, you can also find cheap frames from some online stores. As the online shopping is more and more popular, online stores are springing up like a mushroom. They are granted for lower price compared with products sold in brick and mortar stores since they don’t need to afford the cost of renting space, employees’ salary, warehousing and they can get cheap frames from manufacturers directly. Therefore, visiting some online stores is also a good choice to find the cheap frame.

Moreover, you can also visit the nearby wholesale stores to find the cheap frame after comparing cheap frames of different sellers on their quality and price. And more popularly you can try to buy the cheap frame from some overseas online factory outlets at the price which is only a fraction of what is being sold in this country.

Is it intelligent to purchase discount eyeglass online?

October 17th, 2009

Some people argue that it is not a good choice to buy discount eyeglasses online. Their argument is that each person only has one pair of eyes, and therefore people should protect their eyes and as a result the eyes can serve people better.

Opponents of buying discount eyeglass online worry that the online retailers can not make the PD correctly so that the wearer may not get clear vision, some even will get headache. They also worry about that the buyer will finally end up with a wrong frame in wrong size and shape. They are the strong supporters of traditional way of buying discount eyeglass from stores.

This argument scared some buyers of discount eyeglass away in the previous years. Now the things are changing, as the first group of daring consumers bought the discount eyeglasses online, and reviewed with very positive feedback, now more and more people are trying to buy discount eyeglasses online as the second pair for back-up.

The fact if discount eyeglasses online is that, as long as you can get your prescription correct, there is no reason for online retailers to mess up the powers of the lenses and PD measurement. Furthermore, buyers only pay 1/10 to 1/5 of the traditional price, this is seductive enough to accept the likelihood that the discount eyeglass bought online ends up with a useless one even.

Actually the only shortcoming for online discount eyeglass is the lack of frame adjustment. So far as the adjustment is concerned, metal discount eyeglass is easy to adjust by yourself. There exist a bit tricky job for plastic discount eyeglasses, but still most buyers can manage to work it out.

America’s eyeglasses online retailers and online buying guide

October 15th, 2009

In the way of our growing up we usually don’t care our eyes the same way we care other parts of our body. This is why the majority of the population will need some kind of vision correction. Though the health insurance including vision plan is ubiquitous, yet many people in the country don’t have vision coverage. You may choose America’s eyeglasses online retailers to save a small fortune. Americas eyeglasses online stores offer large varieties of prescription eyeglasses for your vision needs. Following is the brief introduction of the top 5 America’s eyeglasses online shops.

TwoPair.com is the online facility of America’s Best selling the best America’s eyeglasses at cheap prices. As the domain name explains, TwoPairs.com sells two pairs and a free eye exam for only $70. This is acceptable price for most uninsured buyers.

The second online Americas eyeglasses internet store is Eyeglasses.com, this site solves the problem of information asymmetry which exists in the America’s eyeglasses industry, which help the buyers make the smartest decisions in buying eyeglasses.

The next turn comes to the Americas eyeglasses retailer of discount eyewear, 39dollarglasses.com. This site offers buyers prices which are only 30% comparing to the other stores. The low price is this online store doesn’t sacrifice the style varieties. You can still find most of the frame styles other stores offer.

America’s eyeglasses online stores are not the destinations for cheap eyeglasses only. BestBuyEyeglasses.com and FramesDirect.com sell designer frames at an average 70% price of the other local stores. These two America’s eyeglasses websites mainly operate in the area of higher-quality designer brands.

Today’s trend of online purchase of eyeglasses is putting America’s eyeglasses industry on a dramatic change which is taking place in faster paces. The ultimate result is that the new shape of America’s eyeglasses industry will finally benefit mass consumers.

Matters need to pay attention to when purchasing cheap eyeglasses

October 15th, 2009

Cheap eyeglasses do not mean they have solely the low cost advantage. They should be both cheap and with high quality. If the reasons for the cheap eyeglass are the no-name of the eyeglasses brands, reduction of the other expenses, or the unfashionable styles, then the cheap eyeglasses are worth to purchasing. However, if the cheap eyeglasses are due to the inferior quality, then you’d better give up.

As the cheap eyeglasses may be out of protections by the relevant parties, being different from the famous brands, you should pay more attention to the details when buying the cheap eyeglass. We take the online shopping for cheap eyeglasses for example.

You are required to take a thorough eye test from your optician and get a copy of your eye prescription. In order to know exactly about your eye problems, you need to know some knowledge on eyes. Sphere specifies the strength of the lens, plus for the hyperopia, and minus for the myopia. Pupillary distance is the horizontal distance between your pupils in millimeters. Cylinder is your astigmatism correction, and if you do not have the astigmatism problems you can ignore it. Axis corrects the astigmatism when the eye is slightly rugby shaped. If you know your eye problems better, you can get the proper cheap eyeglasses.

You are required to browse the cheap eyeglass online to find the most suitable frames, following the instructions and filling in the straightforward information to get as much help as you can from the online optical vision experts. Practically, you should check the feedback ratings of the online shop and consult the dealer on the eyeglasses problems to make sure buying the cheap eyeglasses with high quality.

You are required to understand the warranty policy and the exchange of the cheap eyeglasses on the online store. If you receive the cheap eyeglasses with quality problems or you just do not fit the frames very much, you should contact the shop customer service online, and describe the problems clearly. Make sure you do not throw away the product certificate and the warranty. Also keep the eyeglasses case and packaging to receive the reasonable compensation or exchange.

In today’s world, shopping online is quite popular. Though shopping for the cheap eyeglasses is a little complicated, it is worth trying. If you pay enough attention to the eye-related information, you are sure to buying the most suitable cheap eyeglasses online, and you will feel happy to get the right eyeglasses and at the same time save a small fortune.

How to get the cheap glasses

October 11th, 2009

Not everyone can afford the high cost glasses of top brands, such as Armani, Ray Ban, Oliver peoples. Generally speaking, glasses are the essential necessity for the people with vision problems, how they can get the high quality also cheap glass may be quite beneficial. Here are the methods to get a high quality while cheap glass.

You can choose relative cheap lenses and economical frames for cheap glass. Basic plastic lenses are much cheaper than high index ones, and simpler frames are lower priced than frames with decorations or with sophisticated designs

You can go to the wholesale eyeglasses markets for the cheap glass. Glasses retailers usually get the cheap glass from a large wholesale eyeglasses center, adding with the expensive overheads and salaries, as well as excessive profit margins, the cheap glasses turn into the very expensive ones. So it is easy to understand that the wholesale center is a good choice for the cheap glass.

With the rapid development of the internet technology, shopping online is very popular among people especially with the adolescents. It is very convenient as you just need to click the mouse before you can get the cheap glasses. You can save yourself up to 75% sometimes 90% on your prescription glasses. You may wonder why the prices are so cheap than the high street glasses. The reasons are quite obvious, the online glasses dealers may be the eyeglasses manufactures, they just sell the glasses directly steering clear of any unnecessary expenses. Meanwhile, the online shops are virtual ones, with the costs massively reduced.

There are also other ways to purchase the cheap glass. For example, you can keep your eyes on the discount information of the local eyeglasses shops, or you can go to the low-price orientated eyeglasses retailers for the cheap glass.

Knowing all of the above things are not enough, the most important thing is that you should pay much attention to your eye test. Professional eye test is especially important to get the accurate diopter power, pupil distance, and the astigmatism strength. You should go to the authorized optometrist’s office to have a thorough eye test and get a copy of your prescription. If you want to make sure all of the parameters are accurate enough, you can also have several eye tests.

Cheap glasses do not mean they are inferior. Cheap glasses just get rid of the unnecessary expenses. We should try our efforts to purchase high quality while cheap glasses.