I have been using various Simon Eye locations since the 90s, and this is the only location that has…read moregiven me problems. The doctors and their staff are fine. It's when you want/need to buy glasses that the problem begins. I have purchased glasses from Simon Eye every year for the past 10+ years. I now have several pairs of glasses I can't wear because my prescription changed. This location carries the brand I like, but did not have the frames I wanted last year in 2024, and said they could order them, which they did. The associate also ordered the lenses, and when I picked up the glasses, they didn't seem right. Everything appeared concave through my lenses. She got the measurements wrong and had to remeasure and have them remade. In the meantime, I was wearing the pair I had purchased the year before, in 2023, and inquired about a scratch on the lens that I couldn't remove. She said oh you did that. Nothing we can do. I said Why do I pay for scratch-proof lenses?? Suddenly, they could honor their "scratch-proof" warranty and make me new lenses. The other new pair with remade lenses came in, and the 2nd set of lenses was fine, and I also purchased prescription sunglasses. Both pairs of glasses from 2023 and the new 2024 had brown transition lenses. I purchased frames back in 2022 with grey transition lenses. I returned several times during 2024 to have both pairs of glasses and the sunglasses adjusted, and every time they asked Did you get them here? Even though it is in my records that I have made all these purchases, and they say to come back anytime for adjustments.
Fast forward to 2025, and my prescription changed AGAIN. I don't want to BUY another pair of frames. I have been wearing them for not quite a year. I want to get some more use out of them; they are beautiful and I like them. Should glasses be disposable? They are not disposable contacts. The doctor appointment was fine, but I mentioned how many weeks it took me to get glasses the year before because the associate measured wrong, and the doctor said Let me give you this person who has been here forever and knows what she is doing. The optician asked me what glasses I wanted to buy, and I told her I just wanted new lenses for the frames I was wearing that I purchased here, as they were less than a year old. She was clearly annoyed and said they can't guarantee anything, even though the frames came from there, and proceeded to fill out the lens order. I should have taken my prescription and left at that point. She did not take measurements or ask questions, and handed me the form to go pay at the front. I just assumed she knew what she was doing and was replacing the exact lenses in my frames with the new prescription, which is what I asked for. I paid and went home, and then noticed on the receipt it said grey lenses, called back and said these should be brown. Received a call from her saying it's not grey, I straightened it all out, they are brown.
I get a call that my lenses are in. Come to pick them up, and can see that the techs are looking at them and asking questions. Someone told me the lenses came in grey, so they sent them back and got brown lenses made, but now the lenses don't fit my frames. They fit my frames from 2023, with the grey being from 2022. I was told the associate was a long-time employee from another location who filled in that day. She obviously could not be bothered to do her job correctly. They told me I could get them remade as a courtesy. What?? Finally, a different optician came over to help me out, and she said we would make this right. I also tried to get my sunglasses adjusted and was told by the tech that we can't guarantee anything. The optician did finally figure out what was wrong. The order was placed for the last pair of lenses I received, which was for the scratched lens replacement for the 2023 frames. So the "long-time employee who knows what she is doing" who placed my order and did not ask questions, just lazily looked at the last order, and ordered that size with the color of my 2022 lenses. NOT the last pair of frames I purchased, which were on my face. It doesn't even make sense. And did she lie that she corrected it since they still came in grey and had to be reordered in brown? The last optician did make it right, but that took another 2 weeks, and of course, she should have made it right because it's not like this was a favor. After all the time this took and all the issues that have occurred, I will be taking my business elsewhere. There are so many other options available, and I have been wasting my time and my money here. I am also starting to think that my prescription has not actually changed so many times, and that it's just that they can never get it right here. I will find out for sure next year when I go somewhere else.