I had been purchasing my prescription eyeware from Visionworks for the last 20 years with never a problem. I liked the stores because of the plentiful collection of frames to choose from. In September 2015 I purchased 2 pairs, one a black wire frame and a brown plastic frame that I especially liked. Both pairs ordered with the HD single vision lenses and full everything you can get - scratch and glare resistance. In May 2016, I decided I liked the brown frames so much that I wanted to order the same frame with sunglass lenses. At the time, I ordered another pair of clear lenses in a black frame. When I returned to pick up the sunglasses, I noted to the clerk that a spot had been slowly forming on the right lens of the brown frame glasses and no amount of cleaning would remove it. Both inside and outside surfaces of the lens were very smooth, it looked to be forming inside the lens. Well, the clerk insisted I must have gotten something caustic on the lens causing the spot. This didn't make sense to me since the spot had grown in size over the past several months. I felt it was a flaw in the lens. I loved these frames so much I went ahead and ordered and paid for a replacement right lens when there was no offer to replace it at their cost - and it had been about 8 months. When the right lens came in, I took the frames in. After repair, I put the glasses on and immediately could not see out of the right lens. The clerk took them from me and after examination decided the wrong lens had been ordered. I had to wait another week for the right lens to come in. Once in, I picked them up and everything initially felt right. After wearing the glasses for about 15 minutes, I noted that I felt right eye strain. When I took them off and traded them for the other pair of glasses purchased at the same time (same prescription and lens type), it took about 60 seconds for my eyesight to clear again. I felt a shifting in my right eye when I put them on and took them off. I noted over a few days that when I traded them for the sunglasses - same frame and prescription lens - I would have blurring in my right eye for about 60 seconds as my eye adjusted. I noted this same effect when I would take the eyeglasses off to read. After 4 visits back to the store and multiple checks of the lens with no improvement, they finally agreed to order another right lens at their cost. When the lens came in they put it in and again, as before, the lens felt okay for a few minutes. I told the store manager that if that did not correct the problem that I would not be back. Once I left the store, I noted again difficulty seeing out of the right eye when I removed the lenses. After a few days, I went to an independent eyeglass store in my area. The optometrist overheard me telling my story to the clerk. He came over and took the eyeglasses. He immediately popped both the right and left out of the frames. He looked at them carefully and then let them both drop gently onto the counter. Even I could immediately see and hear that the lenses were not the same material. The replaced lens was not the HD high quality lens I had paid for but was a plastic lens. It did not have the coating the other lens had. The doctor was very informative and helpful. He quoted me a good price on replacement lenses. He told me he never replaced only one lens but both at the same time. I ordered replacement right and left lenses of high quality. When they came in, they were put in right away. I took them home and have had them 2 weeks now and they are perfect again. I ended up spending approximately $860 on this one pair of glasses - $400 initial, $160 for a single replacement lens, and $300 to replace both lenses. I am very disappointed the the Visionworks staff would send me off with a lens inferior to the one I'd ordered. I will NEVER again step foot in a Visionworks store because of this. read more