Lenscrafters, Zenni: My journey into wearing glasses
I still don’t need glasses, apparently (my last aviation medical exam resulted in a third class medical with no corrective lenses restriction; I did the vision test both with and without glasses to see what was what), but I knew my eyes were starting to degrade a bit after almost 5 decades. So before that physical I headed over to Lenscrafters, where my Care Credit card would theoretically let me pay off whatever this was going to cost me over 6 months, no interest. Ray-Ban RX5428 frame The eye exam, apparently, was done through a private contractor operating out of the Lenscrafters store, and they didn’t take CareCredit, so I was $153.46 immediately out of pocket for that. The prescription I got from that exam: My general use prescription from my eye exam Lenscrafters was running a special, half off the lenses. The Ray-Ban RX5428 frame ( 55/17/145 - apparently a “wide” size?) was $147, and lenses with my progressive prescription was $598.34, $299.14 with the discount; total bill (i...