Buying Glasses Online Allows Wearers to Get Name Brand Glasses at Discount Prices.

Online, November 26, 2013 (Newswire.com) - At large eye doctor offices, people can easily spend hundreds of dollars on frames and lenses. Buying online allows wearers to spend a fraction of that cost. Glasses are able to be sold at a high discount rate because they do not have overhead constraints.

At stores on high street, buyers are paying for the rental space, employees, and expensive glasses displays on top of the price of their frames and lenses. Customer experience buying glasses online is getting better. Shopping online for eyeglasses is becoming more approachable for the average customer.

Buying a pair of eyeglasses is a personal purchase. The wearer could try on a dozen frames before settling on one the like. This is the main reason people avoid shopping online since there is no physical way to try frames on. However, these online stores are able to supply this shopping experience. There are two ways to do this.

Shoppers can upload a photo of themselves and then drag various frames onto their picture to see how they look. The more popular option is to have shoppers open their webcam and place frames on their live face. This allows people to view the glasses by turning their head to see how the frames look at different angles. This is the most realistic shopping experience that can be offered online.

To place an order for glasses online, shoppers need a valid prescription that has been issued within the last two years. If there is not a current prescription, then shoppers need to get an eye test done and make sure the optician gives a copy.

Optical stores have employees that work on commission. They will try very hard to get the shopper to buy their expensive frames. However, shoppers are under no obligation to buy them after getting their eye test and prescription.

The prescription can instead be taken to an online glasses store's ordering system. They usually have guides on how to read the prescription. If shoppers are worried they will order wrong, then they can email the online store and they will fill out the order form for them.

One of the best online glasses stores in the UK is Glasses2You, a company founded to give customers cheap alternatives to the more expensive high street opticians. They use qualified dispensing opticians with state of the art equipment to create the perfect frames and lenses for each customer.

A spokesperson from Glasses2You commented, "You can rest assured that our frames and lenses are of the highest quality and from reputable suppliers. They are of the same quality that can be seen on the high street and all are made up to your prescription by qualified dispensing opticians."

Buying eyeglasses online offers the lowest prices with as much as 70 percent savings than traditional optical stores. Shopping online is very convenient, allowing people to shop from home and have their glasses delivered to their door. There are thousands of frames to choose from with a simple click of the mouse.