Buying glasses online in thailand.

[watcharacters]

 

 

I want to buy some pairs of glasses online.

 

Can anyone recommend an opticians office  in Pattaya that can correctly measure me for frames.      I'm OK to use my existing prescription.

 

I've heard good things about Zenni.com.     Has anyone tried them?

 

This all comes with a little bit of awkwardness in that  I'd be paying  for a service from an optician office but I would not be buying their product.      I'd want the initial measurements Zenni requests and upon receiving the glasses I'd want  to pay for their adjustment  as well.

 

Hopefully the office would use something such as this to adjust  frames.

[johng]

I wouldn't bother/risk faffing about online just go to First Optic

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@12.9207209,100.8784744,3a,66.8y,252.5h,84.07t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sGKzrOf_HyqWBCayQ6RV73w!2e0

 

[wgdanson]

Or Euro Optic opposite Royal Garden, 2nd road. Absolutely great.

[spidermike007]

I always buy from EyeBuyDirect.com - They are amazing. Very inexpensive. However they are in the US, so not sure about shipping. I get good prescription lenses and decent frames for $25 or so. Same thing retail here is $200 or more, for same quality. 

[lopburi3]

Yes Zenni is good and have used here in Thailand a number of times over the years with shipment direct from their China suppliers.  Much less expensive than buying locally.  Have never required any frame adjustments - just measure your current frame and size by that.  What you do need is PD (distance between center of pupils - but if opthamologist fails to provide easy having someone do or even do yourself with a mirror).  I have always obtained prescription from hospital doctors.

[LongTimeLurker]

59 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I always buy from EyeBuyDirect.com - They are amazing. Very inexpensive. However they are in the US, so not sure about shipping. I get good prescription lenses and decent frames for $25 or so. Same thing retail here is $200 or more, for same quality. 

I get mine when in Viet Nam. Lenses for $20 to $30 for what they ask Baht 12,000 for in Thailand.

[grkt]

Any other feedback about online shops ?

[jerry921]

I've used eyebuydirect a number of times, and zenni once, all times shipping to the US. The time I used zenni they were very slow (eight weeks, I think). The details are very foggy in my mind, it was a while ago, and I just remembered "slow". I think the glasses were fine when they came.

 

I used to buy reading glasses (the kind you can get in a drugstore without a prescription in the US, like +2.00 in both eyes) from eyebuydirect, because the ones I could get in the drugstore were always scratched already by people handling them, and the lenses were really low-quality soft plastic that scratched quickly if I could find a pair that was initially ok.

I bought the very cheapest frames from eyebuydirect, $10 each, and ended up paying no more than the drugstore. I had them all over the place, one pair in each car, one pair at work, a pair on my desk at home, etc. So I've bought a lot of pairs, at least a dozen. Frankly, those frames are very cheap for a reason, they all tended to fall apart after a few months, especially the adjustable nose pads would break off

 

Now I need real prescription glasses, and I buy from eyebuydirect, but I buy less cheap frames. I want to pay at least $30 for the frames, and those hold up pretty well. I'm going on 2 years for my current set of one pair and a pair of prescription sunglasses.

 

The size of the frames is etched onto the frames, usually the ear piece, so if you have a current pair of glasses you can get the size off that. That's what the shops do when you go in, they always ask for your current glasses and read the size.

 

If you don't know your size, I'd recommend going local retail and buying a pair, and asking them what the size is and your PD for future reference. They'll probably understand you'll be buying online, but you've bought one pair from them so they shouldn't be too snarky.  The size you can wear is a range, but the PD needs to be pretty exact or you'll have vision issues.

[altcar bob]

Try Alibaba,  prob buying straight from china,  Abut $60  titanium  blue filter thin lens