I actually think the lenses are the rip off now.
There are quite a few frames for about 100.00 but the lenses can cost over 300 for single vision.
The place I got the exam at wanted 175.00 1.67 high index single vision but then they want you get get anti-reflective coating and charge 100.00 for that. A hundred dollars for a coating sounds insane.
I bought the glasses from Walmart because they are quite a bit cheaper and usually I get them from Pearle and the like so i'm sure Walmart is as good as them. Walmart wanted 95.00 for the frames and 150 for the high index lenses with anti-reflective coating.
Zennioptical gets 40 dollars for the same lenses with the same coating. These things must have a huge markup for the price to be able to vary that much.
I ordered a really cheap pair with cheap lenses from Zenni (10 bucks total) because I am really curious about if they are any good.
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Matt