can anyone recommend a shop selling cheap reading glasses off the rack ?

looking for 40, 60, 80 baht type of glasses

5 minutes ago, tgw said:

can anyone recommend a shop selling cheap reading glasses off the rack ?

looking for 40, 60, 80 baht type of glasses

Plenty around!

Mr. DIY..............

Normally they are on turnable display racks in department/Lotus's type stores or spread out on street.  If you know what you want they are also all over Shopee/Lazada.

Boots, B2S Lotus's

7/11s, most 'plastic shops', markets, instore stalls at large supermarkets, there everywhere, sounds more like you need a white stick, if you've never seen them. 

Just now, brianthainess said:

7/11s, most 'plastic shops', markets, instore stalls at large supermarkets, there everywhere, sounds more like you need a white stick, if you've never seen them. 

I tend to notice only what I am interested in, sometimes not even that ????

 

thanks for all the replies

Any mall, any market, Mr DIY. 

Buy a beer in any beer bar, and wait.

 

Within 15 minutes you can depart with a pair of reading glasses, sunglasses, a Rolex, a T-Shirt, a lottery ticket, a box of Kamagra, a wooden elephant carving, a collapsing wooden fruit-bowl......and the girl that served you the beer.

 

The above list is abridged. ????

I bought mine from the clothing section at Lotus. I also seen them in the clothing section of Big C extra.

50 baht a pair Soi Bukhaow market tuesdays/fridays.....

21 hours ago, transam said:

Mr. DIY..............

as low as 15bt there....and good!

I buy my kid at 20thb shop to play with. You can get them with clear lenses, +lenses, or-lenses. 

On 5/2/2023 at 10:00 AM, tgw said:

I tend to notice only what I am interested in, sometimes not even that ????

 

thanks for all the replies

Instead of looking in shops , you can just ask other people where to get them 

2 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Instead of looking in shops , you can just ask other people where to get them 

damn, I didn't think of that.

do you know any good forum where I could ask ?

3 minutes ago, tgw said:

damn, I didn't think of that.

do you know any good forum where I could ask ?

I am not allowed to mention it on here 

7 hours ago, petermik said:

50 baht a pair Soi Bukhaow market tuesdays/fridays.....

Download ( and put) this chart onto your mobile phone.  Snellen Chart for Mobile

 

Got to Soi Bukahaow Market on Soi Bukahaow just North of Pattaya Thai (South Pattaya), or any other shop selling reading glasses.  About 50' (20m) from Pattaya Thai on Soi Bukahaow there is a open air shop selling reading glasses on the ocean side. 

 

Bring up the chart, put on a pair of glasses, and cover your right eye.  Find the pair that is strong enough to let you see the 20/20 line clearly, but not any smaller, with your left eye.  Now repeat the process for your right eye.  Chances are that you will need different strengths for the left and right eyes.

 

Buy at one pair, or more pairs, of glasses for each eye - they are only 50 Bt/pair.  MAKE SURE THE GLASSES HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME FRAMES!

 

Take them home and push out the right lens of the pair for your left eye.  Push out the left lens of the right eye pair.  A little oil will make popping lenses out of, and later into the frames easier.  When finished you can clean the oil off by rubbing in a little dish washing liquid then rinsing.

 

Now put the left eye lens from the right eye pair into the right opening of the left eye pair and the right eye lens from the left eye pair into the left opening of the right eye pair.  Push the lenses in from the inside of the frames.  This sounds confusing but you are just swapping lenses between the two pairs of glasses to give you two pairs of reading glasses with the proper corrections for each eye.

 

As a bonus, buy a pair with the greatest diopter value and a pair that has a lower diopter value equal to the difference between your eyes.  Repeat the above process and you have two pairs of magnifying glasses that will let you get closer to what you are working on for fine work.

A quick follow up.

 

The ocean side of the Soi Bukahaow Market is open most (all? ) days of the week.  You can buy prepared food, fresh fruits and vegetables, some clothing, and reading glasses there.  Don't know if you can buy meats or not daily.

The size of phone screens can vary so the size of the letters on a vision test chart on your phone can vary, which may effect the results.  It is better to use a printed reading chart.  This printable PDF chart is for 8.5"x11" paper but A4 can be used.  In both cases specify print actual size if possible:  Vision Source Free Eye Chart - Download, Print, and Test

 

A short distance further North on the shore side of Soi Bukahaow is the Harry House bakery.  A great place for a morning coffee and croissant and to buy breads and pastries.

5 minutes ago, HarrySeaman said:

This printable PDF chart is for 8.5"x11" paper but A4 can be used.  In both cases specify print actual size if possible:  Vision Source Free Eye Chart - Download, Print, and Test

 

But this thread is about reading glasses - not normal distance vision.  This could be used - or just take some small print with you and try different glasses.

https://www.readers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Rea-Updated-DiopterChart-1.pdf

okay, I tried out some recommendations from this thread.

 

Mr. DIY - the shop in my area (Rattanakorn Market) doesn't sell reading glasses

Big C Pattaya Tai: 2 rotating stands, piss poor selection, nothing below 1 dioptre and expensive: 199 to 259 baht.

Tesco Pattaya Tai: same as Big C, but only 259 baht.

 

so it seems my question still stands.

 

I tried out some glasses and it seems I need 1 and 0.75 correction, I'll check if I can find something on Lazada. 0.75 is a guess because they didn't sell it.

 

EDIT: So I ordered 2 pairs with different corrections from Lazada for 94 baht. Let's see if that solves my problem.

26 minutes ago, tgw said:

okay, I tried out some recommendations from this thread.

 

Mr. DIY - the shop in my area (Rattanakorn Market) doesn't sell reading glasses

Big C Pattaya Tai: 2 rotating stands, piss poor selection, nothing below 1 dioptre and expensive: 199 to 259 baht.

Tesco Pattaya Tai: same as Big C, but only 259 baht.

 

so it seems my question still stands.

 

I tried out some glasses and it seems I need 1 and 0.75 correction, I'll check if I can find something on Lazada. 0.75 is a guess because they didn't sell it.

 

EDIT: So I ordered 2 pairs with different corrections from Lazada for 94 baht. Let's see if that solves my problem.

Did you allow for your head size?  Most frames are for smaller I have found.

17 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Did you allow for your head size?  Most frames are for smaller I have found.

yes, the photo shows the frame can extend

27 minutes ago, tgw said:

yes, the photo shows the frame can extend

Can you share a link?  Never found any like that myself.  Had to search for the small minority that even mentioned size for something wide enough.

31 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Can you share a link?  Never found any like that myself.  Had to search for the small minority that even mentioned size for something wide enough.

I meant the hinges

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/i3825838129-s14579226168.html

 

A selection of frames to choose from.

Eye sight measured, lens made to measure (simple lens of course).

Ready in less than 30 minutes.

 

(please ignore post if not interested in "lecture")

 

3 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

A selection of frames to choose from.

Eye sight measured, lens made to measure (simple lens of course).

Ready in less than 30 minutes.

 

(please ignore post if not interested in "lecture")

is a part of your post missing ?

That's all I can see.

27 minutes ago, tgw said:

I meant the hinges

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/i3825838129-s14579226168.html

 

OK that will at least make more comfortable at temple but the 130mm between hinges was my concern - I need a lot more than that.

13 hours ago, tgw said:

is a part of your post missing ?

Left from the Soi Buakhao >fresh< market (R-con corner) next to the 7/11 is a small optician shop.

One man business. The woman just does selling of the rack (which is also available for 100 Baht).

I had one done second week of March and it does the job and feels better than off the rack stuff.

It's this one:

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

Left from the Soi Buakhao >fresh< market (R-con corner) next to the 7/11 is a small optician shop.

One man business. The woman just does selling of the rack (which is also available for 100 Baht).

I had one done second week of March and it does the job and feels better than off the rack stuff.

It's this one:

thank you, interesting