As so often happens in life, things wear out. It's either the eyeglasses were getting too dirty to see through or the eyes were changing to another prescription. Off to the local eyewear places.... instead of buying the cool pair of hockey skates, I was forced to consider remedial eyewear at close to $500! Solution... shop online? Could it be done? would it be worth the risk?
I checked out http://www.clearlycontacts.ca/ and could have had a pair for about $239 with all of the coatings... antiglare and antiscratch. Then I went to http://www.zennioptical.com/ where I priced a pair at around $29 + taxes, shipping and a pair of snap on sunscreens... the total came out to $70.. so I went for it.
The cool part is finding a picture of yourself where your head is level and uploading it onto the site so that you can scroll different pairs of glasses across your image and choose a pair that looks good.
Well, 2 weeks later they came and the world just got a little brighter! They are amazing: rimless, weightless titanium frames.... and they fit like magic and work just as well.
I recommend this to anyone who is fed up with high eyewear prices.
