{"id":193,"date":"2026-06-25T14:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:55:42","slug":"best-online-prescription-glasses-eyebuydirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Best online prescription glasses:\u00a0Eyebuydirect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Underscored<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Michael Berk\/CNN Underscored<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a mix of affordable house brands and good deals on a range of premium brands, Eyebuydirect offers flexible, complete search tools and a shopping process that is smooth and easy to navigate, with superior VR\/AR try-on tools. If you\u2019re looking for value comparable to Zenni\u2019s but want the option of browsing familiar names, it\u2019s hard to beat Eyebuydirect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyebuydirect\u2019s collection is huge, which means you\u2019ll find both a wide range and a lot of variations on similar themes. The search tools let you filter effectively by enough criteria that you can narrow things down quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basic single-vision prescriptions are very inexpensive (well under $100), while pricing for a fully loaded pair, before discounts, runs about $400 for house brands ($100 more than Zenni) and in the $500 to $600 range for branded options like Ray-Ban. This is still very affordable compared to many brick-and-mortar opticians and high-end retailers, where you\u2019d spend in the neighborhood of $1,000 for a similarly spec\u2019d pair but not far off major discount retailers like Costco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyebuydirect\u2019s try-on tools are the most complete and easy to use of all the eyeglass retailers we tested. A full-featured viewer works with your live webcam, an uploaded still image or a recorded video and lets you enter your PD measurement and even adjust the fit of the virtual frames on your nose, which we didn\u2019t encounter anywhere else \u2014 it really makes the fitting experience better and gave us the best sense of how the frames might look when worn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like most low-cost online retailers, Eyebuydirect doesn\u2019t directly accept insurance, but the site provides a simple way of\u00a0applying for reimbursement from a wide range of vision insurance plans, potentially saving you money even over other lower-cost online retailers, depending on your plan\u2019s out-of-network coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two-day delivery (one day faster than even Zenni\u2019s express service) is available for a select range of frames with single-vision prescriptions, so it\u2019s about the cheapest way to get a pair of glasses in a hurry. With regular shipping, we got our glasses in nine business days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, and perhaps understandably given the need to keep down costs, you don\u2019t get a case with your Eyebuydirect glasses \u2014 just a cardboard box. If you\u2019ve bought glasses in the past, this is probably welcome (since there\u2019s definitely a drawer full of extra cases somewhere in your house), but it can be a little inconvenient if you\u2019re new to eyewear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have only 14 days to return your glasses if you don\u2019t like them, which is one of the shortest return periods of any online glasses retailer we looked at. That said, you do get a full refund \u2014 unlike Zenni, where you get a 30-day window but only store credit \u2014 so if you don\u2019t like their styles, you can easily recoup your investment and shop elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While overall Eyebuydirect\u2019s frames are of good quality and comparable to everything else in the under-$300 price range that we saw, some of the more basic plastic frames we checked out did feel a bit cheap in comparison with Zenni\u2019s similarly priced frames. We don\u2019t expect they\u2019d fail in use or anything, but if you want a luxury feel you might not want to select the least expensive frames on offer here; Zenni has a slight edge here at the low end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One flaw in Eyebuydirect\u2019s ordering system \u2014 which most people might not find an issue, admittedly \u2014 is that it doesn\u2019t flag multifocal prescriptions that are out of spec for a given frame until you\u2019ve made your way through most of the ordering process (and the alert doesn\u2019t give enough clear advice on what to do or what\u2019s wrong). We\u2019d prefer to see this alert earlier in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Berk\/CNN Underscored With a mix of affordable house brands and good deals on a range of premium brands, Eyebuydirect offers flexible, complete search tools and a shopping process that is smooth and easy to navigate, with superior VR\/AR try-on tools. If you\u2019re looking for value comparable to Zenni\u2019s but want the option of browsing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[28,31,30],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glasses-news","tag-eyebuydirect","tag-glasses-online","tag-prescription-glasses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadyrays-sunglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}