Any where I've gotten a new eye prescription would put the new lenses in my present frames. They won't sell new frames, or make new lenses with an out of date prescription.

So glad you checked out the link!

I have no idea what you're talking about, but they don't care what is holding the lens... They won't issue a new lens without a current prescription, is the only thing I've ever heard.

If it doesn't apply to you, then just ignore it? That includes anybody who doesn't trust mail order prescription stuff.

I've certainly heard a lot of people who want this sort of thing, and I found it, so maybe it'll help them. I apologize it doesn't help you.

In my experience, eyeglass sellers will sometimes put new lenses into frames they sold. Not always. The comment about the prescription needing to be current is what I too understand to be the required practice.

And, won't put lenses into frames they didn't sell. They don't want the liability for breaking and having to replace frames.

Which is why I posted the link! And qualified it with "might"

This is a service many people want. I don't understand why y'all bothered to tell me you can't, when the link says you can?

Unless you two have some lack of understanding or didn't bother to click on the link. I would guess you didn't click on the link.

Let the people who want the service, click on the link, and continue. We don't need opinions on what can and can't be done, because the link will explain it. I promise you, they will only do what they can do legally.

There's no "might" on the business's page you linked to.

Bless your heart honey of course you're so smart, smarter than the rest of us! Thank you so much for all of your intelligent remarks. It's so important that you weigh in on this matter.

I thought this might be a case where you wouldn't lash out because of a reaction to something hastily done. Wrong.

I find both comments informative,

Many Walmart optical stores will use your frames for a $10 charge. Unfortunately when I tried this they did not do a good job on the lenses, but people say that Walmart opticals vary and some people say they have had good experiences.

Sounds to me like something to bookmark. You never know. Unfortunately I usually need new glasses because my frames-usually a hinge-fail but I am always looking to maximize my investment. Thanks Rob.

Has anyone noticed Randy Rainbows pink glasses? They are cateyes from his Grandmother with Randys current Rx.

weigh in

Elmer prefaced his post by saying that it was 'his experience'. And he is correct, the vast majority of eyeglass sellers will not use frames they do not sell and just for the reason Elmer gave.

Rob you have posted useful info. But no need to jump on Elmer he has just as much right to post and weigh in as the rest of us, and his post was courteous and relevant. The explanation actually made your post more valuable because it alerted people to how few eyeglass sellers will allow use of frames they did not sell.

There's also no need to tell me what other eye sellers do, or for me to be told what to post or who to reply to either???

The point was, other eye sellers don't, so I posted one who DOES.

Rob there is no need for you to run this thread and specify exactly what people can post. To do so amounts to bullying our members here. As long as the posts are courteous, and have something to do with the subject, just scroll on by if they do not appeal to you personally.

FYI ... I bought inexpensive frames from Pair.com (they have magnetic, interchangeable "covers" so your frames can look different every day if you want.) Took the frames into Lensmart, and they ordered and added my bifocal lens at no additional charge. They even did a slight adjustment on the plastic frames to make them fit better.

I have had new lenses put into old frames but it is not always possible. If your new lens needs to be thicker it might not fit in your old frames. And sometimes old frames are just not strong enough to take the pressure of having new lenses fitted. This company might advertise this service but it is possible that they can't deliver under certain circumstances. One would have to ask them.

Thanks for the information and the link, rob.

Apparently, Visionworks will put new lenses in your frames, regardless of where they came from, unless they've changed their policy. They did so for my late husband a few years ago.

For a variety of reasons, I've often asked optometrists if they'd make lenses for frames I'd provide and have never been told no with one exception. Recently I was shopping around with my daughter and she couldn't find frames that she liked more than some cheap fashion glasses she got off Amazon and I asked everywhere we went about using those. They all voiced concerns about those particular frames but in theory were ok with us providing them, with the exception of Warby-Parker who would only work with their own. My father's last pair of glasses fit him terribly, I was mad that the optometrist sold them to him but then found out he had just gotten the frames from a friend and had lenses put in. So my experiences have been that you can bring your frames.

That said, if I'm interpreting the website correctly, you can just enter your prescription and they'll take your word for it? If that's correct, I can see it being useful. If I could order cheap glasses for home I'd tone down the strength a bunch to make them more versatile. Not to drive with but to function domestically with.

"Rob you have posted useful info. But no need to "

Yes, very ironic I'm told how controlling I am 🤣

"Rob you have posted useful info. But no need to "

Rob you have posted useful info. But no need to jump on Elmer he has just as much right to post and weigh in as the rest of us, and his post was courteous and relevant.

Bless your heart honey of course you're so smart, smarter than the rest of us! Thank you so much for all of your intelligent remarks. It's so important that you weigh in on this matter.

The above was simply rude. {Unless of course you were being honest and actually meant it. If so, and you were being kind and complimentary, I would be delighted)

@lucillle...APOLOGIZE!

(In response to a post by Nicole which was subsequently deleted) I do not think it was the same, I asked you about a post:

lucillle9:22 AM

• Do you think it might be in poor taste for several people to discuss another actor on my Topol post, or is it just in the nature of conversation?

nicole___11:20 AM

• I'm sorry.....I was just following Jilly's lead. I'm pretty much not into cultured actors...FIddler on The roof....never saw it...I have no idea about any of the actors...guess I should have Skipped on by. I DO apologize.

as stated by the ultimate thread controller.

And yet another.

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The page on the 39dollarglasses website on your eyeglass prescription was an interesting read. I didn't know that OD or O.D. means right eye and that OS or O.S. means left eye.

And just to add something, I came across - but unfortunately did not bookmark - a website that calculates your pupillary distance from a photo you submit to them. When I mentioned this to my optometrist, she just rolled her eyes.

Walmart will make and install new lens in an existing frame if the frame is serviceable. Right now, I am wearing a frame with a second set of prescription lens.

@graywings123 On the page where you enter your prescription they have a tool to do that. I've tried it three times and gotten results as much an 2mm difference.

I saw my ophthalmologist last week. She said my frames were still good for new lenses. I may go back to their optique and do that, but in the meantime I'm also thinking about a new pair from Warby Parker. Surprisingly, I like 3 of the 5 frames I received in my free home try-on.

“Do you think it might be in poor taste for several people to discuss another actor on my Topol post, or is it just in the nature of conversation?”

I’m sincerely sorry I brought up another actor’s death on your thread back in March, Lucille (I did acknolwdge your OP as well). I wish you’d said something to me then … I did not intend to offend you, and would’ve apologized then.

My apologies as well to the OP here for going O/T. I saw my name mentioned and wanted to address it.

Thank you Jilly.

I think it's totally okay to go off topic!

No worries.

I think it's totally okay to go off topic!

Agree, but it drives some people up the wall. It's actually sort of comical.

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Totally NOT my irritation. I love the dips, dives and tangents threads can go.

That was not my earlier irritation. I'm sure anyone

watching can guess that issue. 😉

It is my understanding that even Walmart will put new lenses into your old frames.

My optometrist has always put new lenses into frames that I already had. I occasionally buy frames from him, but not always.

I used to work next door to Signature Eyewear, which manufactured frames for pretty much all of the major eyewear designers in the U.S., and once a year they would have sales of leftover frames that they had in inventory. I could buy frames for $5 to $10 from them, which would normally cost more than $100 retail, and so I would buy a bunch of frames at their sales. I still have a collection of frames that I bought there. One year I bought a pair of prototype frames that had not been mass produced, and those were my favorites.