Quote Originally Posted by W4GPL View Post
I've been wearing glasses since I was a young teen.. and in general, my prescription has stayed stable for a long time. But recently, as my body falls apart rapidly, I noticed that with my glasses weren't solving all the blurry words & signs at a distance. So having stocked up a bunch of HSA monies, I decided to treat myself to a trip to the eye doctor.

Being relatively new to the area, I went with the advertising ploys and randomly chose Lenscrafters. The doctor (independent of Lenscrafters though in their office) was excellent. I've never had an eye doctor take so much time with me doing the 'better/worse' stuff. It was tedious, but worth it.

Then the guy who helped me pick out eyeglasses was awesome too. He had me choose 8 frames.. 4 regular and 4 sunglasss.. and then he took me over to a computer that took a picture of me wearing each one of them and it analyzed all sorts of shapes and angles. I was quite blown away.. and then finally when we narrowed it down to the two.. he spent another half hour adjusting them using the same photo technology. Very geeky and very effective. I've never had such a well fitting pair of frames before.. snug and comfortable, very stylish -- they look like they were made for me.

Then came the money talk... holy eyeballs batman. I paid less for my first car -- literally! But I relented because I was so impressed with the service and the quality. And an hour later.. I walked out with my awesome pairs of glasses.. and it's the best clarity I've ever had.

Though incredibly expensive, a service worth checking out.. maybe this particular location (Cherry Creek Mall for our Denver folks) was special, but I'm a believer.
No, I went to the Lenscrafter at my Mall. I was very happy with the service. I bought a pair of self-tinting bifocals and got a second pair of sunglasses for free (Driving and Fishing). It was a buy one get a second pair for free deal. After I saw the price, I thought they just charged me twice as much for the one pair to make up the difference, phew! The cost of glasses is certainly going up, enough to make me consider laser eye surgery. But I do like glasses. I don't know how many times glasses have saved my eyeballs from injury.