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As part of my search for finding the best place to purchase cheap eyeglasses, I looked into Walmart.

I checked out my local Wal-Mart. They said they have frames starting as cheap as $18 and they go up to $140.

They charge $49 for the eye exam.

Their cheapest lenses are plastic (as expected) for only $30. The $30 lenses have no coatings on them. They charge an extra $10 for UV coating and $35 for anti-reflective coating.

They also offer the polycarbonate lenses (impact resistant and lighter) with UV coating, scratch resistant coating, and anti-reflective coating for $118.

Based on people's comments on Walmart Vision Center, people are generally very pleased with the customer service and quality of the product they've received. The one complaint that came up several times was the wait time.

If you have any comments, complaints, or questions about Walmart's Vision Center, feel free to post those thoughts in this thread.

i went to walmart to purchase eye glasses, paid for the eye exam and they charge me for each lens. i asked why do you pay for each lens he said thats the way it is you pay separately for each lens.

Do you mean that they charged $15 per lens? That does seem very odd that they would break their price down by each lens. I can't imagine why they did that unless you were buying two different types of lenses. I'm guessing that would be extremely rare though.

Thanks for your detailed explanation on glasses. I ordered glasses from walmart.
Polycarbonate lenses with UV coating, scratch resistant, and anti-reflective coating : 50$ for each glass
Total cost is 296$ ( $100 for both glasses+ 196$ for Titanium frame)

raju_bheemam,

Thanks for sharing your experience. The price you paid for lenses is very similar to what they quoted me over a year ago ($118 vs the $100 that you paid) for polycarbonate lenses with UV coating, scratch resistant coating, and anti-reflective coating. They had told me their frames only went up to $140, so the titanium frames you selected must have been near the top end of what they have available.

Please let us know how you like your glasses and lenses and how they hold up over time. I always enjoy hearing about other people's experiences.

The reason they charge for each eye is because each eye can have a diffrent prescribtion!

When the first poster stated that cheapest lens is plastic...indicating it is no good, actually that cheaper CR39 plastic has better optics than the polycarbonate lenses. If you looks at the ABBE number on CR39 plastic it is 43...much better optically than the ABBE of 31 for polycarbonate, and the CR39 is much cheaper...albeit somewhat thicker plastic. The higher the index you go...i.e. getting thinner and thinner polycarbonates up to an index of 1.7 or so, you will actually get more distortion in the lens, and chromatic aberrations. Go to Wikipedia and educate yourselves before buying lenses. I don't work for Walmart but I will say that the lenses at Walmart are no worse than those from other major chains and the prices are much better and you will have more selection of materials than at other chains. Crown glass is the best material optically, it is also much cheaper than polycarbonate but it is heavier than the plastics. That's not really a problem if you have small lenses.

I just found out my husband spent $456.00 dollars at Walmart yesterday for some Digimax progressive lenses. He's at work and that's all the girl would tell me on the phone. No more detail than that. I can't believe any glasses would cost that much!! And that's with insurance paying $100.00 dollars!

Jonas,

It would be very helpful if you could find out the breakdown of how much was spent on frames and how much on each feature those lenses have.

I moved your post to this thread as the one you posted in is for discussion related to antireflective coatings. Someone in that thread did mention they got Digimax HD single vision lenses with crizal alize antireflective coatings and Transitions lenses for only $131. That seems like a very good value for a crizal alize coating and Transitions lenses, but I'm pretty sure that didn't include the frames.

I'm guessing the high cost of your husband's lenses was for the frames.