Online (fast fashion):
Advantages:
- Convenient
- Allows you to shop in the comfort of your Home
- Cheap
- Fast response time
Disadvantages:
- You most likely have a customer service representative with minimal knowledge of optics
- Probably lower quality frames and lenses
- Risk of frames not fitting correctly
- Risk of ill-fitting lenses
- they usually ask for your pupillary distance measurements, which leaves room for error or an extra step to get it from your doctor
- they most likely do not take vertical measurements – will center or use an average/algorithm
Freestanding brick & Mortar:
Advantages:
- Work one-on-one with an eyeglass technician or optician
- Usually more detail oriented
- Clearer understanding of your needs
- Probably higher quality materials
- You are more likely to get accurate lens measurements
- manually take pupillary distance and vertical height measurement
- May carry exclusive markings
- Easier to adjust frames
Disadvantages:
- Probably more expensive
- It usually takes longer to do
David type – Online Boutique – The best of both worlds
- Convenient
- Allows you to shop in the comfort of your home withtestset delivery
- Along with an optician with extensive optical knowledge to guide you to the right pair
- Ability to customize (computer cookbook, computer progressive, read only, etc.) upon request
- Takes a single line
- It takes 10-14 working days to make glasses
- High-quality materials at a fair price
- Uses a patented measurement system (measures pupillary distance and vertical height using a photo of you with the glasses) More informationhere.
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