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whiz

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Hi Guys, i normally buy daily disposal contact lenses from Specsavers....there decent lenses....but can anybody recommend a website ?
where you can get decent contact lenses cheaply

Any suggestions appreciated
 
Another recommendation for daysoft lenses - they are very good value and I find them much more comfortable than my old Ciba dailies.
 
I have been ordering from VisionDirect.ie for several years now, never had an issue
 
I had used J & J lenses for 20 years or so and now have been using daysoft lenses for 3 or 4 years now and have had no problems. When I got my eyes checked 2 years ago for specs and lenses at Vision Express, the optician was a bit iffy about me using daysoft lenses as he "didn't know anything about them" and his prescription was only for acuvue daily disposables. I continued to use daysoft using his prescription without incident.

Cue to last week and I had my 2 year check-up. The optician tested me for new specs ok but she wouldn't give me a prescription for contact lenses, despite checking my eyes thoroughly with lenses in and giving them a clean bill of health. Again, the issue was "I don't know anything about those lenses so can't test them". I have to go back for refitting of presumably J & J daily disposable lenses in the new year to get a prescription (my specs prescription is different to my contacts prescription). Once I have my new contacts' prescription I can decide whether to buy J & Js or daysofts. Daysofts are way cheaper. My eyesight has changed in the last 2 years so my old prescription is obsolete.

I would never risk my ocular health and see (no pun intended) no problem with daysoft lenses. I think there is a lot of lost revenue for the optician and presumably they have a nice relationship with the main suppliers, but competition brings prices down and I understand the guy behind daysoft was one of the people involved with main brand daily disposable development.
 
On the strength of recommendations here, I have ordered a month's supply of Daysoft lenses. Pleasingly they have an equivalent of the reasonably obscure Specsavers version I have been using for the past 18 months. More pleasingly, I ordered on Sunday evening and they were dispatched yesterday lunchtime which I find excellent service for this time of year.
 
I've used a few but recently have found http://www.lenstore.co.uk to be the handiest (not always cheapest but they post promptly and they are owned by the ppl who own Vision Express so I am satisfied they are legit).

They also give free eyetests if you buy lenses from them with Vision Express in the UK (used to live there so this was a very good benefit). I just checked there and you could get the free eye test in Vision Express in Northern Ireland if you visit there at all.
 
I had used J & J lenses for 20 years or so and now have been using daysoft lenses for 3 or 4 years now and have had no problems. When I got my eyes checked 2 years ago for specs and lenses at Vision Express, the optician was a bit iffy about me using daysoft lenses as he "didn't know anything about them" and his prescription was only for acuvue daily disposables. I continued to use daysoft using his prescription without incident.

Cue to last week and I had my 2 year check-up. The optician tested me for new specs ok but she wouldn't give me a prescription for contact lenses, despite checking my eyes thoroughly with lenses in and giving them a clean bill of health. Again, the issue was "I don't know anything about those lenses so can't test them". I have to go back for refitting of presumably J & J daily disposable lenses in the new year to get a prescription (my specs prescription is different to my contacts prescription). Once I have my new contacts' prescription I can decide whether to buy J & Js or daysofts. Daysofts are way cheaper. My eyesight has changed in the last 2 years so my old prescription is obsolete.

I would never risk my ocular health and see (no pun intended) no problem with daysoft lenses. I think there is a lot of lost revenue for the optician and presumably they have a nice relationship with the main suppliers, but competition brings prices down and I understand the guy behind daysoft was one of the people involved with main brand daily disposable development.

Have you had a good chat with your optician about the cost of lenses? I was using J&J Acuvue daily lenses, which were great for fit and comfort, but the cost was killing me. I discussed this with the optician, and got switched to Cooper Biofinity toric monthly disposable lenses, at about €12 per month, less than 1/2 the cost of the Acuvue lenses. I got them through visiondirect.ie, which was about 1/2 the cost that my optician was quoting me.

I'd be very cautious about choosing a brand of lenses that your optician doesn't know and hasn't fitted for you.
 
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