i haven't had many good experiences with B&M eyeglasses the metal corrodes my face the plastic ones fell apart
the half rims were a bit better but i had problems with fit i used to use pearl vision exclusively then tried cohen my husband had a pair from pearl that we could NOT keep the lenses in! we finally crazy glued them in i figure for what we paid in the B&M for essentially garbage, we may as well pay a LOT less and hope that the quality is what we got from the retailers btw, this e-group is addicting..... and i keep going to all the different eyeglass places and looking and looking because if this works out i get to have back up pairs of glasses in an accurate RX, not the 12 year old RX i am currently wearing do to the excessive cost of B&M's vi On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Rhindle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, I'm with J. Evans on this one. I'll write up a more > thorough review someday when I have more time. > > I find the online places to be a lot of fun. I own more than a dozen > pairs, from several different vendors. I like having variety. I will > probably order more. > > But in the end, I have found that I get what I pay for. My B&M > glasses have always been high quality in terms of frames, lenses, and > Rx accuracy. (My recent frames have been Easyclip, Polo, Ray-Ban, and > Rodenstock brands.) They cost 5-10x more than the online bargain > prices, but in return, they're at least 5 times better. > > A brief explanation: All of my bargain frames feel and look cheap > upon close examination; they have mediocre fit and finish, are too > easy to bend, and usually arrive misshapen. The bargain lenses have > poor A/R coating compared to B&M, they scratch easily, and some have > optical defects. The Rx accuracy has also been very dissatisfying, > with most of my bargain pairs having wrong the PD and/or axis; several > are so bad as to be unusable (out of 7 Zenni pairs, only one is really > good; the most annoying failure was an $80 eyebuydirect pair). The > attention to detail is usually low, with problems like poorly edged > lenses leaving gaps at the frame. > > My only huge success online was buying a Shuron frame and having it > lensed by eyeglasslensdirect. But that cost nearly as much as B&M, so > it supports my argument about getting what you pay for. > > I'm glad most of you are really happy with your bargain glasses. But > in my experience, they are not as good. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://www.glassyeyes.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
