Glasses from Warby Parker?

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone gotten them with a really high prescription? I just received my five to try on and actually really like two of the pairs, but I am -7.5 in contacts and usually have to get lightweight lenses. Wondering how that would affect the price and/or if they are even available.

Try to input your prescription and see if it'll take it. I'm much higher than you, with bad astigmatism to boot. None of the online places will cut my lenses.

Because my eyesight is so bad with a more complicated prescription and b/c I have an optical center that is not standard, I can't buy online (even if there was a place that would take my prescription).

they list on their FAQ the prescriptions they can do - it's up to -10, I think. And maybe -9 with astigmatism? I don't remember. Regardless, I was at the high end of the limit and the two pairs I ordered gave me headaches. I even double checked my PD between orders to make sure that wasn't it. I don't know what the deal was...

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Any updates for folks on this post? I'm a negative 10, so reading this has made me not want to order online.
(And as an FYI, anyone with VSP - contacts with a -10 or higher are considered medically necessary and I only had to pay a $10 co-pay for a year's supply of contacts.)

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for folks on this post? I'm a negative 10, so reading this has made me not want to order online.
(And as an FYI, anyone with VSP - contacts with a -10 or higher are considered medically necessary and I only had to pay a $10 co-pay for a year's supply of contacts.)

My eyes are similar (-9 and -9 1/2) and Warby Parker could not get the lenses right. I ordered a pair from Costco (which are great but 1.6 high index) and a pair from David Kind (1.74 high index). I LOVE the David Kind glasses - they remade them for me when I wasn't happy with the frames and they offer free lens replacement if you scratch them (which I did so I have to send them in soon). Highly recommend them -- although they were still about $300.

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for folks on this post? I'm a negative 10, so reading this has made me not want to order online.
(And as an FYI, anyone with VSP - contacts with a -10 or higher are considered medically necessary and I only had to pay a $10 co-pay for a year's supply of contacts.)

My eyes are similar (-9 and -9 1/2) and Warby Parker could not get the lenses right. I ordered a pair from Costco (which are great but 1.6 high index) and a pair from David Kind (1.74 high index). I LOVE the David Kind glasses - they remade them for me when I wasn't happy with the frames and they offer free lens replacement if you scratch them (which I did so I have to send them in soon). Highly recommend them -- although they were still about $300.

I ordered a pair of David Kind glasses and they ended up giving me migraines. They offered to fix them but I didn't want to deal with the possibility of more problems, so just returned the glasses. Ordered another pair of Warby Parkers instead (am now on my 4th pair of them).

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FYI they have a location in Tysons now.

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They also have stores now in Shaw and Georgetown I believe.

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I bought the frames at Warby Parker in NYC and brought them to my regular optician to fill with specialized bifocal lenses. I like my frames. They had more classic styles in tortoise than any regular eyewear store (and they charge 700 for frames that are classic like these).

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Anonymous wrote:I have a pair. It was very easy except I had to go to a shop to have my pupil distance measured because my doctor's office hadn't done that for my prescription. They also have a limited selection - I only found one pair that worked for me, but at least I found one.

I would feel guilty asking a shop to measure my pupil distance so that I could buy from an online business. Does that strike anyone else as wrong?

Presumably you paid them for the eye exam. Your prescription should have included all information necessary to buy frames.

from Warby Parker's faqs:
To purchase a pair of prescription glasses, all you need is your eyeglass prescription or your doctor’s contact information (we’ll call your doctor for you). We also recommend that you provide your pupillary distance (or PD) if your eyeglass prescription has a combined Sphere and Cylinder measurement of ±2.00 in either eye.

The pupillary distance is not part of your prescription. Many optical shops will do this measurement for free. However, I have an issue with Warby Parker relying on free measurements from their competition as part of their business plan when they claim to be an organization with an ethical mission.

My pupillary distance was on my prescription. I pay for an eye exam and a prescription and I have a problem with eye doctors holding their patients' prescriptions hostage to make them buy overpriced glasses from them. I have great vision insurance, and it pays for almost all of a new pair of glasses every year. This year, my glasses (nothing super designer or exciting) would have been over $1,000 retail. That's ridiculous. Until Warby Parker came along, there was one company in Italy that made almost all glasses sold in the U.S.

When I lost my glasses last year, there was no way I was going to pay $1,000 bucks out of pocket to have them replaced, so I got a pair from Warby Parker. No-line trifocals. They worked great.

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I just bought some Warby Parker frames a few weeks ago and they did not ask for pupillary distance. They just asked me to upload my prescription, which did not have pupillary distance written on it.

My glasses were great! Stylish, the fit is good, and they cost $125 (I need high-index lenses).

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I just bought some and have to say I'm very disappointed. I have some pretty poor vision and got sucked in to the upsale ultra thin lenses. So my total is $225.

The lenses look absolutely horrible and I swear to all that is holy, the frames are not the ones I ordered. They are way too big for my face. I literally cannot wear these glasses out in public without looking silly. Which is what I was looking forward to.

I had gone several months without glasses, and I'm over wearing contacts 15 hours a day.

I get the five frame try-on, that's useful. But at 40 and reliant on my DW's opinion, I'm not lugging 3 kids to Tyson's to spend 30 minutes trying frames on.

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Anonymous wrote:They also have stores now in Shaw and Georgetown I believe.

And one on Bethesda Row.

I just got a pair from them - a very simple prescription to wear over contacts. They did the pupillary measurement in the shop. I like them, but they are limited wear glasses so the $95 price was a big plus for me.