Gripe of the morning: All eyeglass websites do faceting and search wrong.
Frame designs are fully segregated by "men" and "women". A minority have a "unisex" section. Sometimes it is an intersection of the gendered sets, sometimes it is an exclusive third set.
The only parameter I care to filter on is lens size. Very few accommodate that, and those that do require me to redo for each gender-section.
Eyeglass gender should be a category facet that can be toggled just like any other category.
@ardgedee Good new, perhaps. My eyeglass vendor of choice, Opitcal4Less.com, has classes by type of frame, and allows sorting by lens size. Good value for money, I've found. I buy all my eyewear there.
@photopuck fwiw, if you have some favorite old frames that're still in good shape, you can get better bang-for-buck by re-lensing them.
Not necessarily cheaper, but it allows you better-
quality glass for about the price of frames + generic glass elsewhere. This also opens up the options for lens coatings.
I'm thinking of doing this to get photograde lenses, since cheap PG is worse than useless and good PG is 💸💸💸
This site is interesting... there are others, too...
http://www.replacementlensexpress.com/
@photopuck All my glasses (incl. reading glasses) have to have progressive lenses, so they cost 5-10x base price at the online stores. My scrip will run over $200 w/coatings at optical4less (I've used them before, they do good work).
At RLE, same scrip and name-brand lenses w/coatings will be $170-ish.
Some Pakistani and Chinese stores will run my scrip in the $80-150 range. Frames are mostly very poor quality. End-of-year BOGO sales tho: I might get some backups and try not to be seen in them
@ardgedee I tried a pakistani source before using O4L and the angle of the cylinder grind was wrong, even the replacements they sent on warranty. So I'm wary in general of anyone who is charging even less than O4L.
I'll look into RLE, but most of my frames are pretty crap.
I'm still stubbornly insisting on single vision. We'll see how long that lasts though.
@photopuck I have no choice w/r/t progressive lenses. Post-cataract surgery, eyeglasses are the only way to control focal depth.
Will get some single-vision lenses for workbench, the only time I'm working exclusively in closeup. Aside from that, even my reading glasses have to be bifocal/progressive from now until forever.
I depend on an optician in town for my primary glasses. Their prices are reasonable for flawless work. But I need a *lot* of glasses and have to save money where I can.
