I was recently looking to buy some color contact lenses and thought that I’d shop around to compare prices. I was pretty stunned to see how much prices vary from one store to the next.
The first step for many people thinking about lenses is to take a trip to the opticians for an eye examination. This is obviously a necessary visit to establish that your eyes are healthy and to find out what prescription is appropriate for your needs.
After I’d had the eye examination, I was offered the chance to purchase the lenses at the opticians. They pointed out that they could make the lenses for me in a few days.
They evidently weren’t produced on site and were being sent from elsewhere. I was quite surprised by the high costs involved, so I decided against making a purchase at that point. I thought I’d see how other opticians compared.
Living in a fairly major town, I had access to quite a few stores selling contact lenses and visited maybe five or six of them. There was quite a bit of variation in price and the first opticians shop that I’d visited was by no means the most expensive.
I noticed that many of the shops were selling color contact lenses that were made by the same manufacturers, so I wondered whether I might be able to find out more about them by looking online.
Sure enough, by doing a quick search on the internet I was able to identify exactly the same lenses being sold by numerous online retailers. I’d not heard of some of the online stores at all, while others were well known high street names.
What I did notice, however, was that prices were often considerably lower than those that I’d seen at the shops in town. Quite why this should be I don’t know.
I decided to order online and the process was pretty simple – I just selected the lenses that I wanted and entered the details from the prescription that I’d been given by the optician.
If you’re looking to save money when buying contact lenses then I’d recommend taking a similar approach.
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