Follow up on my replacement order. It has been 16 days since it was placed and the it still shows the status as "In Production"
Contacted their CSR yesterday and they said hopefully they can ship within 24-48 hours. I contacted them again today and another CSR gave me another story that their QC rejected it and they have to start all over and ship it ASAP ! ...I don't know what/who to believe anymore from Goggles4U ! On Nov 5, 3:09 pm, EdT <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I figured out why GogglesU4 is screwing up. > > I took two pairs from my collection(yes I said collection ! ...LoL) of > double vision glasses from Googles4U and remove the lens from the > frame in order to move them until the double vision would merge into > single vision and low and behold the second the lens touched each > other they became single vision, meaning the lab technician that > grounded these lens never added the length of the nose temple into the > calculations. I tried this again with the second pair and the same > thing happened. > > I then got hold of my latest pair with double vision from Googles4U > and compared it to a good old pair with similar lens dimensions and I > had my answer was right there, the focal point of the good pairs was > closer to the nose bridge and the lens thickness was thinner as well > and all the ones with double vision from Goggles4U where centered on > the lens with equal edge thickness on both ends. > > I mean how many times can they screw up and not catch on ? > > On Nov 2, 3:45 pm, Chalo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > EdT wrote: > > > > > Don't you reckon that using glasses with real frames would circumvent > > > > all these issues? > > > > It would, but why offer rimless if they can't produce them properly > > > and then again their double vision problem exist through out whether > > > they are semi-rimless or not ! > > > That is true; quality control that fails can fail pretty much > > anywhere. > > > I wonder whether the double-vision thing is just from having lenses > > that aren't aligned with each other (basically, a bent bridge) or > > rather some optical problem with the lenses themselves. Consider > > aligning them yourself-- gently-- before you give up on them. > > > When I get glasses with flat base curves, I tweak them until they give > > me identical reflections of distant objects when I look at them. With > > curved lenses, I tweak them until the reflections in the lenses behave > > as though they come from the same continuous surface-- that is, as if > > the two lenses were parts of the same single lens in the way that a > > reflection rolls across them. This method allows me to align the > > lenses to within a small fraction of a degree. (The technique might > > not work for plus prescriptions.) > > > I have to touch up the alignment periodically due to wear and tear, > > the same way I have to reset my nose pads once in a while, or bend the > > temples back in because they have spread out a bit. > > > Chalo -- Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en
