These guys did a great job of getting my son his glasses quickly when he broke his old glasses and needed a prescription (Peachtree Eye Associates, also in this location, was phenomenal), and also sold me a pair of prescription sunglasses as well.
They sold me on the insurance for the glasses for my son, and based on his past history with glasses and the fact that he's an active eight-year-old boy, I'll likely end up using the insurance at some point. If the insurance is as easy as they made it sound, I may bump this a star.
My only real con is the same con that I have for many other places that sell glasses. They all want to charge an exorbitant amount for anti-glare coating on glasses. I get that it's part of the Luxottica glasses monopoly, but it's nonsense. Even after the VSP insurance that I pay for every month, I spend more on anti-glare coating after insurance than I do for a full pair of frames over at Zenni that come with anti-glare coating.
With exception of the anti-glare pricing, my complaints are very minor, and I would definitely recommend this place as being far better than the other glasses chains I've had recent experiences with. The only prescription glasses store I've had a better experience with was a locally owned place when I lived in New York, and I would definitely recommend this place for people in/around Alpharetta over the alternatives I've had experience with here.
EDIT: I called up to get the pupillary distance used for my son's glasses, the glasses I paid LensCrafters for, and Nicole would not give it to me. She told me it was company policy to not release Pupilary Distance due to the proprietary camera system they use to figure out PD. (Their system pegged me at 63.9, when I'm used to the old school systems pegging me at 64)
She told me I could visit with my son, and that they would use the traditional method to give me his PD, but they couldn't give out their AccuFit measurement for me to order online with. (I'm ordering a dirt cheap pair of Zenni glasses to function as an emergency backup so that if ever leveraging their insurance policy to fix my son's glasses, he has glasses to wear while his current glasses are repaired.)
I find it insulting and dishonest to tell someone that you will not reveal the pupilary distance of the glasses they have purchased. If my son were to have headaches with these new glasses, and I took him to an eye doctor and they asked what the PD was, would LensCrafter have the gall to say that they don't reveal that information?
I'm only marking this review down one-star (as opposed to more) because when I called back and spoke with someone else, they did share the PD used. That is one data point, and I'll continue to use a metric ruler to reconfirm PD. No, I'm not going to hold LensCrafter accountable for whatever backup glasses I order, and I hope if anyone from LensCrafter reads this that they reprimand Nicole for her poor customer service, and not the person who was decent enough to tell me what I'd purchased from them. read more