Well I got the Lenscrafters glasses a while ago. One hinge is loose and has gotten looser. I could probably do a swap for another frame, but then if that one goes loose too, I'll be out of the 30 days period. I may have to return them.
I like them, they're cheap frames as LC goes (C$69.95) and with polarized lenses they ran to C$234. They're not the SunGear I thought, at least not officially. On the right temple it says "Woolrich 7939". Woolrich isn't even listed as a brand on the LensCrafters site! Woolrich frames are made (imported) by www.NewYorkEye.net but this model isn't listed, nor is anything close. I wrote to NYE last week but haven't heard back. Has anyone seen these? Any idea how to track them down? Google and bing don't return any relevant hits on Woolrich 7939 (not in quotes). The size is big, 58/18/145 (actual size 57W, 44H, 18B, 145TW). I also got the C$20 glasses from GlassesShop in China, they're tinted not polarized (which would possibly be about C$129 from LC). And while they're definitely the size they advertised, they seem small for their size (56W 39H 18B 145T 142TW). The prescription seems fine. I'd quite happily re-order as polarized (+U$43 or so) if they were bigger, but they feel small enough on my face (especially on a sunny day) that they're better as $20 backups I think. If I can find a big enough set of frames online, I'll probably try them. Depending how cheap the frames are I'll either get them as an untinted backup distance pair, then if they're okay get another set with polarized, or if they're really cheap again (my GS glasses were "$8") I might get tinted to test then a pair of polarized. (The logic of the previous paragraph is that I don't want to invest in polarized lenses for a frame that turns out to be not what I want -- I'd have been disappointed to drop $45 extra on my GS pair, only to discover they're only good as backups.) -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 10:44:52 PM, you wrote: > Thanks for the reply. LC wrote back today and said they're 44mm but > check with the store. > My current distance glasses are 36mm and my reading glasses are 41mm, > so for sunglasses this seems reasonable. They do look small on the > rack and then have surprisingly good coverage, so it's an interesting > combination. > I did order a pair of glasses online for U$17 and change, I'll be > interested to see how they look (they're 56x40, though they look > bigger in the store). I guess for 8% of the price they don't have to > look fantastic (and they're only sunglasses). > I'll also check the refund policies of the online vendors. -- 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
