Discount Contact Lenses

Why is my family talking to me about contact lenses these days? My son says all the other kids have them in school and he wants them too. My sister-in-law is asking me about renewing her Acuvue prescription online. After looking briefly at ordering contact lenses online, I first found out we need to get an optometrist prescription. Once that is done, next it is time to figure out the best store buy contact lenses online.

Obviously, we all want to get contact lens deals, and while getting good Internet prices is easy enough, one has the sense there’s always a better deal just around the corner. So as I looked at offers, coupons, specials, free shipping, it wasn’t easy to keep track of all the information. Pricing information starts to make more sense when “written down” and entered into spreadsheets.

Clicking through the various sites thinking there had to be an easier way, I gathered the information needed to make a purchasing decision. It also crossed my mind that the time spent trying to save $20 wasn't worth the effort. But then, why bother to research prices online if that's the case! Nope, the object here is to find the best prices, save some money, and when the time to reorder lenses arrives again, all the work will be done. Right? Well, maybe. Prices go down (and up), new merchants enter the market, competition increases. Online pricing changes and maybe challenging to stay on top of.

So the spreadsheet data looked something like this for Accuve 2:

Store name	Qty	Price / Box	Coupon	Handling	Shipping	Total	Real Cost Per Box
Lens.com	4	$21.95	Free Shipping Over $99.00	6.5%	$7.95
Do the math		21.95 x 4 = $87.80	Free Shipping Doesn’t Apply	Calculate handling:$87.80*0.065 = $5.71 Sub Total = $93.51	Add Shipping Sub Total = $101.46	$101.46	$25.36

 

Store name	Qty	Price / Box	Coupon	Handling	Shipping	Total	Real Cost Per Box
Lens.com	6	$19.99	Free Shipping Over $99.00	6.5%	$7.95
Do the math		19.99 x 6 = $119.94	Free Shipping Applies	Calculate handling:$119.94*0.065 = $7.80 Sub Total = $127.76	Free	$127.76	$21.29 Buying 6 boxes offers a 15% cost reduction over buying 4 boxes

Well guess how long it took to find an up-to-date, valid, coupon online, find the shipping information on the Lens.com Website, and then make a calculation for each scenario, i.e. purchase 4 boxes vs. purchasing 6 boxes? It took 52 minutes, almost one full hour. Then I found another online store and repeated the process. Of course, calculations are easier to make and to track once entered to a spreadsheet. Pricing gets easier as more stores are visited and evaluated. But there’s still the problem of finding the best contact lens stores online, and ones that seem to be trustworthy. Also, many shoppers buying lenses online buy periodically, and don’t get practiced in setting up spreadsheets or shopping processes, and calculations to save money.

Contacts are an ongoing expense and so as shoppers we should always try to lower ongoing expenses as much as possible. It can take quite a bit of time to research contact lens deals online! While taking notes, we made a list of tips for buying contact lenses online.

But what about all those price-comparison shopping sites out there, you say! Having used big price comparison sites before, I found them to be somewhat superficial towards listed items. Sure, they list prices but often don’t provide other necessary information like shipping rates, handling rates, coupon offers, and rebates.

So after looking at this for a while I figured it was time people who want to Buy Contact Lenses need better shopping tools. Much better shopping tools allowing them to purchase discount contact lenses easily! That’s why LensPriceCompare.com allows lens shoppers to:

• Compare prices from leading stores
• See coupon offers and specials (if available) on the very same page
• Find listed shipping costs or estimates
• Find listed handling costs or estimates
• Calculate total cost and estimate real cost per purchase

Your problem of online search, price comparison, coupons and specials search, and across store cost comparisons has just been solved. You will save countless shopping hours and significant costs when buying contact lenses using the information and tools provided at LensPriceCompare.com!