I have bought glasses from Anil at The Eyeglass Shoppe a number of times over the years and have always been happy with his service and the glasses that he sold me, . . . . until now.
After my experience today I will not be returning I have to recommend that others read the details of my experience as outlined below before buying from them.
I ordered a pair of $500 Trivex digital progressive focus Sunglasses (about the best and most expensive type) in order to drive to Florida for a three week vacation. I picked them up and paid for them on April 20th, 2022. I had intended to use them for driving, mainly for the distance vision obviously, but in addition to allow me to read Google map directions etc. at reading distance on my dash mounted phone.
The glasses arrived just in time for my trip however they were not made correctly. Distance vision was extremely clear but when I focused on something closer (i.e my phone mounted at arms length on the dash), only one eye at a time was in focus without having to turn my head to allow the other eye to be in the focus sweet spot. The location of the focus point for each eye did not allow both eyes to be in focus at the same time. In order to use it to see my phone while driving I had to resort to covering the out of focus eye (awkward and unsafe while driving). Bottom line they were not usable for the purpose I had bought them for DRIVING.
Anil said that he would have it corrected but that there was not time to return them to the lab before my trip and that I should just use them and come back in when I return and to get them replaced. I used them but could not use them for driving.
After returning I returned them and was advised 3 & 1/2 weeks later that they were ready so I finally returned to pick up the replacement pair today. Again the distance vision was great but this time in order to focus at arms length to see my dash mounted phone (the reason that I paid a premium for digital progressive in the first place). For close things to be in focus I needed to tilt my head far back and look through only about the bottom 1/4" of the lens next to the bottom frame, an obvious problem while driving.
So at this point Anil advised me he didn't know what to do and that he was unable to provide sunglasses that would allow me to see distance (the road) and a dash mounted phone (at reading distance) which was the point from the beginning and is the normal function for digital progressive glasses.
He shocked me by telling me that maybe I should go to a different store !!! It appeared that he blamed the problems on me despite the fact any problems we due to either his supplier and Anil's instructions to them.
Maybe he was having a bad day but this was totally inexcusable as distance and arm's length reading is what progressive lenses are for.
I'm not sure what it means that he said that he cannot provide me progressive sunglasses that do what progressive sunglasses are intended to do.
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