More cheap online eyeglass sources for the focus-challenged among us: Optical4less and Goggles4U. Yeah, they sound like scam sites, but Kevin Kelly vouches for them. [Cool Tools]
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Beaverly saw some eyeglass frames she really liked on some Club Monaco in-store signage. No matter what she does, however, she can't find out if they really exist and whether or not she can purchase the same frames for herself. They've gone so far as to make Russell, the sales guy who was trying to help her, "disappear."
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Most discussed babyruthless: I worked at Gymboree when I was in high school. We'd have ads up in the store where the kids more »
Slate has an article about how unbelievably amazing it feels to get cheap glasses online. I can vouch for this. I often get compliments on a pair of glasses that cost me about $40. Hooray, Internet. [Slate] (Thanks, James !) MORE »
ABCNews asked a optometrist to write a bifocal prescription and have it filled at Costco, Target, LensCrafters and Walmart, then they asked him to rate the quality of the glasses.
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Most people spend too much on glasses, failing to shop around even though they are legally entitled to take their prescription anywhere. Local opticians usually provide the best service, but offer the worst deals. 147 million Americans might save on glasses by following these simple tips from the Chicago Tribune:
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Loverboy Anderson Cooper introduces more footage of that counterfeit eyeglass dealer who attacked an investigative reporter. Turns out that the scuzzy store actually baited the reporter down there for a fight. In a phone call, the optician told the reporter, "I've become a new man, I witnessed the power of God, and I want to tell you, Mr. Silverman, that I do love you, and you wanna come back here, you can talk to me."
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An optician selling counterfeit and shoddy designer frames slammed a door into the face of a reporter, dared him to fisticuffs, and threw snowballs at a camera crew taping the whole thing. Video above.
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With our retinas conjoined by the royal 'Consumerist' we, Ben and I from a grotesque octo-occulus. That is to say: we're both four-eyes...es. But while Ben dashes off to network interviews clad in dashing Gucci frames, my glasses have two different ear pieces and sit crookedly upon my face. One ear piece is superglued to the joint; the other floppily waggles back and forth on the left side of my cranium. A mere nod sends them rocketing off of my face at high velocity to maim innocent by-standers around me.
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The nearly once-a-year savings for frames and glasses are here. They're $99 at Sears Optical, along with $100 and under frame, until Feb 18 and $96 at JC Penney Optical, along with $150 and under frames until Feb 26. However, some people look unfavorably on budget Sears and J.C. Penney eyewear, a phenomenon known as department store stigmatism.
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It turns out X-ray glasses don't work, at least not the ones this guy in Korea was selling. [Korea Times] (Thanks to Andrew!)
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