All week, we have been attempting to sell you Warby Parker glasses and, more recently, Toast t-shirts.
On Monday, we proved wrong those who claimed that Middlemarch must needs destroy all book clubs and summoned Benedict Cumberbatch by all his infernal names. Did we mention Mallory sold her book?
Tuesday, our monstrous regiment of Hey Ladies! women tried to start their own book club and were chastened by Heather Seggel’s tale of class navigation and poverty.
On Wednesday, we tried to stop armchair-diagnosing our exes, and learned about the invisible signs of aging:
Sudden left-handedness
Secret river awareness
Decreased acceptance…
Thursday, we learned how to make your insurance company pay for your doula, and also how to make a really good Aviation, if not exactly at the same time.
And today is Friday. Have a lovely weekend.
Has anyone here tried Warby Parker? Honest opinions? I want new frames.
If you want to go w/an online company, glasses.com is a better resource (this is based on research of the the top 6 online eyewear retailers). Warby Parker is ok, but it’s more about fashion/fab than it is about quality and good warranties. Since my glasses are usually $500+, I’d rather be able to return something defective than have WP specific frames.
I have also tried WP. I got my prescription sunglasses through them over the summer and am just about to buy some new regular glasses through them. My prescription is super mild, though and I don’t need any kind of fancy lenses.
I just think WP’s price point (prescription sunglasses cost $150 out the door and $99 for prescription glasses out the door) can’t be beat. Again, since my prescription is pretty mild, I get annoyed paying hundreds for something that I have a high risk of losing and/or breaking. Also, I feel like paying hundreds for glasses is a little bit of a scam? Particularly because it seems like the frames drive the cost up hundreds and I think that that is mainly due to the eye doctor making their cut on the frames, above and beyond the actual price? I could be wrong, this is just my paranoid assumption.
Yes! My experience was excellent. I went to their brick and mortar store in Boston, so ordering online might be a little different, although they do have that cool thing where you can upload your picture and essentially photoshop different styles onto your face. Or order trial ones. In the store, I picked out my frames, handed them my prescription, and about a week later there were stylish glasses in my mailbox. I have pretty bad eyesight, so I got the thinner lenses made out of fancy science whatever and it was only an extra $30. THIRTY DOLLARS. Amazing. The whole thing came to $125 (free shipping!) and they are my favorite glasses I have ever owned. I have only had them for about two months and I don’t wear them every day so I don’t have an excess of data on durability, but they seem to be holding up perfectly for my uses.
I’m in the midst of trying them — just got shipped my 5 at-home try-on pairs, and I’ve got to say I’m impressed so far with their customer service, at least. I submitted my pupillary distance test online and almost immediately got an email from a rep noticing that I’d submitted it but hadn’t ordered glasses yet and wanting to make sure he hadn’t missed my order. So that was sort of nice. I also called to ask if they could handle my super-strength prescription and got through to someone very helpful right away.
The demo pairs they sent seem solid. We’ll see how it goes, but since I wear contacts and only need glasses as a back-up, I’d rather pay $130 (cost with super-strength lenses) than several hundred. The trial by mail thing is really easy, so I’d say it’s worth a shot to see if they fit your needs.
I have heard nothing but good things, and think they’re delightful.
I’ve tried both BonLook and Warby Parker, and both were pretty good, but I’d definitely go with WP again over BonLook. My glasses from WP just seem a little bit more durable, and are a little bit… classier looking? That could just be specific to the frames I chose, though, so I don’t know how helpful that is. The thing that really made me love WP is that they have “showrooms” in stores in various cities where you can go try them on in-person. That’s what sold me – I’m pretty mail-phobic and don’t really have the patience to be sending frames back and forth, but choosing glasses also really requires you to be able to try before buying.