Date: 2011-04-08 11:34 am (UTC)
I bought glasses from perfectglasses.co.uk and from glassesexpert.co.uk.

Glassesexpert took two months to deliver so (because they were cheap) I bought another pair from perfectglasses in the meantime.

Now, when you look at the websites closely you notice the websites are pretty much the same apart from minor structural. Then when you actually buy you realise you're going through the same back end systems. I guess it could be they just hired the exact same web system designer but it does feel like in the end they're different fronts for the same incompetents.

Anyway, long story short, glassesexpert took two months to deliver glasses. Perfect glasses after one month told me that my prescription was really complicated and they would need another £25. I told them to give me my money back. They then told me they would sell me the glasses at the original price. Still waiting for glasses.

Looking around further an awful lot of the cheap glasses buying places have a very similar website look and feel -- my guess is they're all bunging cheap frames (different frames for each company) on lenses from the same people and it's those lenses which cost the money. The front end parts of the website look sufficiently different to make you think you have a choice.

None of this affects you if you're just getting lenses for existing frames.
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