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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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?[/quote]

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

from Warby Parker's faqs:
[i]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. [/i]

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.  
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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.  [/quote]

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