This place is a swindling nightmare with no integrity and terrible customer service. Long story…read moreshort, save yourself the trouble, don't get conned, avoid wasting time, and go to another optical.
This is going to be a long post so I've summed up my points
- Lies to you about the product you are getting, and charges you premium price but gives you worst products in hopes that you don't notice
- Refuses to refund insurance claims and makes up lies and excuses.
- Store clerk ridicule you when you voice any concerns.
I have been a life long eyeglasses wearer, so saying I have knowledge about the types of lenses would be an understatement.
Two months ago, I bought a pair of glasses over $1000. I got the 1.74x premium lenses which alone costed $705 after discounts. The Nazim claimed they are "thinnest lenses available on the market". However, what I actually received were obviously not the "thinnest" lenses on the market. They were as thick as the 1.55x lenses I got for $30 at another store!
I went back to the store and voiced my concern, and showed them my other glasses with the same prescription with 1.55x lenses and 1.67x lenses. Nazim's attitude was very impatient, claiming "Your prescription is so bad, so your lenses won't get any thinner". Funny, even my 1.67x lenses are thinner than what LensCrafters claim "thinnest" on the market.
Nazim and another Asian girl were very impatient with me, claiming that everything was MY fault for having terrible eye sight (I'm about -5.50, which is not THAT bad). The Asian girl told me that LensCrafter has a policy where they can't make lenses too thin for safety purposes. As a consumer, I couldn't care less about your store policy. When I pay 1.74x prices, I expect them to be 1.74x lenses. Is it also their policy to do false advertising and charging premium 1.74x prices on something that were obviously 1.55x lenses? Is it their policy to lie about their products?
Then, I spoke with the General Manager Peggy. After I showed her my 1.55x lenses and 1.67x lenses, she agreed to reorder my lenses for me because she was "surprised how thick the 1.74x lenses at LensCrafters were". The new lenses that came in 2 days were about half as thin as my previous lenses, which Nazim, with an attitude of annoyance, claimed were "thinnest on the market".
I wish the story ended here, but there is more. My new lenses were too small for my frame, so there was a gap between the frame and the lens, tied by wire. I brought this up to Peggy who said she would "order new frames for me" even though it was evident that the lenses were too small for the frame. Adding this to the 2 days it took for Peggy to place an order for the new lenses and them being shipped from America, one can only question if they recycled some old lenses and cut it out in the shape of my frames.
However, no phone calls or updates were ever received, even though Peggy promised to call in two days. After 5 days, I called in to ask if I can schedule an appointment with Peggy, but the store clerk said "I don't know when she's working.. I'm busy right now so I'll call you in 30 min". Of course, no one even called 24 hours later.
So, I headed to the store, and of course Peggy was conveniently sick. One girl staff with curly hair also mumbled to a clerk helping me, "You should tell Peggy that she came today" with a scoff. How rude can you get?
It took them 20 minutes to find my pair of glasses. Although Peggy claimed she "ordered new frames to me, the frames and lenses look exactly the same with the same gap in the same place. So my glasses were sitting with them for 5 days for no reason!!
I'll cut the part about how they exchanged my frames for the sample frame out for display in the store (aka worn out). I did not pay $350+ for used, second hand demo frames!!
I finally ran out of patience and any faith I had for this store, and asked for a refund. The store clerks refused to refund my insurance claim, claiming "only managers can process insurance claim refunds" and "I honestly don't know how to prepare refunds" and "It takes 3 weeks to mail the refund paper work to the insurance company". Too bad for you I did my research beforehand, my insurance company said LensCrafters can do refunds for claim instantly. Poor, incompetent staff.
If you're going to lie, at least put more effort into it. I called my insurance company just now and had them directly ask LensCrafters for a refund. And everything was done in 10 minutes. So much for "3 weeks".