I was surprised to find I could order swim goggles with corrective lenses for $40 without a prescription. They work great! But my real glasses cost many hundreds of dollars and required a prescription. Why? Too big a gap to just be a regulatory tax, right?
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You can get glasses from Costco for about that much! (thrifty lifehack). They do charge fees for bringing your own lens, probs because they have to cut custom shapes.
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I wonder if it’s to do with the relative refractive indexes of air, glass (lens material) and water?
I don’t think I’d be able to get them for my prescription though.
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You should check out zennioptical.com great glasses high quality inexpensive. Even my high index coated lenses. Used to cost $800 now $80. So cheap you can't afford to not try.
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I bought my current pair of glasses from too, it was $20 including shipping. (My last pair was around $250 and I had to go fetch them)
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Glasses start at $10 at sites like zenni. It does cost a lot more if you want the very thin models.
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I find the quality bar/expectation for my goggles is much lower. I have to get same rx for both eyes, and seeing underwater/the clock is much less important than my day-to-day. Agreed on the price though, a bit insane.
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How do they correct without a script? I wear $20 glasses all the time, but supplied a script with PID and +\- for each eye.
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They have curved plastic lenses!
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