Here is my complaint with LensCrafters in general: They don't stand behind the products they sell you. If your glasses fall apart on you, even if they haven't suffered any trauma, LensCrafters will not repair or replace them for you unless you bought an additional "insurance" on top of the cost of your glasses.
Here is my complaint with LensCrafters at the Galleria in Bee Caves: They broke my glasses, then refused to fix them or compensate me in any way because I hadn't bought their "insurance." (Sounds a bit like extortion, huh?)
When a screw came out of my glasses which I had bought from them about a year before, I took it to them to put a new screw in. The glasses did not have any other problems, had not been squished or tweaked in any way. The screw had just worked itself loose, as they do sometimes. The glasses were otherwise perfectly fine.
They took the glasses to the back room to work on them. When they brought them back out, the replacement screw they had put in was wedged in at an angle, the head of that screw was broken off and one of the struts that hold the screw in was bent. What's more, one of the lenses had one large and several smaller cracks around the edge. Clearly some serious torque had been applied (it's not easy to break the head off a screw, even one of those tiny glasses screws).
When I pointed this out to them, they said that that was unfortunate, but they wouldn't fix any of the damage. They said it must have been that way when I brought the glasses in. They said that since I didn't have an additional insurance policy on the glasses, they had no responsibility to fix them. (I'm not making this up, they really said it was not their responsibility!) They said they had just been doing me a favor to replace that screw in the first place.
The jammed screw that they put in worked it's way out about a month later. I've been using wire ties to hold the arm on for the six or seven months since then.
I am in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a few weeks. I stopped by a glasses shop here. I was just looking to see if I could replace them cheaply, but when they saw the wire holding the arm on they insisted on trying to fix it. About 30 minutes later the glasses frame was repaired. They straightened the strut, rethreaded it, put a new screw in, cleaned all the face grease off and realigned them for me. Then they refused to accept any payment for all that work. They wouldn't even let me give them a bit to buy their lunch.
I didn't write up my experience with LensCrafters for many months because I thought perhaps I really was in the wrong, perhaps I really should have bought such an insurance policy, and perhaps I was just being a spoiled brat for being upset about what happened. I actually blamed myself for the state of my glasses that they broke. Jerks.
Shame on LensCrafters for having a policy of NOT providing service to their customers. Shame on LensCrafters in Bee Caves for not fixing my glasses when they had broken them. I strongly recommend against buying glasses from any LensCrafters, but especially from the LensCrafters in Bee Caves. read more