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It's only been a week, but I kind of hate them. Considering old-man bifocals now.

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[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

They are super hard to get properly aligned. The absolute vast majority of people that work in eye glass shops have ZERO clue on how to set them up. They will claim until they die that they know how to do it. They don’t have a clue. And they don’t understand that. That’s the real problem. They think they know and they don’t.

And the more sensitive your eyes are to minute changes(tiny changes). The problem gets many times worse.

The best I can say is go to one person have them keep working on it. Do not let anybody else touch them. Keep working the same person. If you realize this person can’t get them right and it could take several visits by the way. Then blacklist that person and go to the next person in the same shop. Repeat this until you’ve gone through everybody in the same shop. Then go to the next shop and start over. Keep doing this until youcan find somebody who has a clue. It’s going to take a while. Trust me. I have exactly one person in Town that he can do it. By the way, my city is about 60,000 people in just this town. 60,000 population that is. And there are quite a few eyeglass places in town.

To those who are reading this, if you work in eyeglass shops, and you’re sitting there thinking, but everybody in my shop is really good. Then you have no what’s going on. And you’re part of the problem. Because if you’re thinking, everybody in your shop can do it that means nobody in your shop can do it.

Think of it this way. Imagine everybody on a baseball team says I am really great and everybody my team is really great. Then your entire team sucks. Because in every team, there are people who are really, really good and people are mediocre and people are bad. So if you honestly believe that, everybody in your team is really really good then you’re clueless.

So I guess the best advice I can give to the original poster is keep trying with different people and try to find somebody’s good. Or go to bifocals.

[-] classic@fedia.io 1 points 9 months ago

Sounds costly. And, at what point do you know they are properly aligned or not?

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

You get free adjustments from where you buy at.

Some places will adjust for free even if you didn’t buy there. Use those. By that time you are probably at next year and then your insurance will cover most if not all of a new pair. Then go to the place that won’t adjust for free unless you bought there.

Repeat until you find a good place.

If you have the money then just keep dropping the cash until they are adjusted correctly.

Hope do you know when they aligned? When you don’t have monster eye strain.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago
[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

It’s a common way of saying adjusting the frames.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe I'm just confused because I have monofocal lenses, know my PD and the reliable width for my frames to be comfortable. I can accept I've had different experience than the norm. I've never had the frame adjustments for eye strain, just comfort. I also have been seeing and buying glasses from the same eye doc for 25 years, so that helps.

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