Vision Direct Review

Do you wear contact lenses but hate the high price charged by your local optometrist? If so, then you should try Visiondirect.com, a web store for purchasing contact lenses on- line. This store is an affiliate of web giant drugstore.com and it is designed to get you the corrective lenses you need at a low price.

Web Site Commentary:

Visiondirect.com is an efficient, easy to use web site for purchasing contact lenses. I have been wearing contacts for a long time and one of the nice things about this particular piece of merchandise is that the prices have slowly been dropping over time. In the 1980's, contact lenses were more expensive and less comfortable than they are today. So, not only has the price fallen, the product has gotten better as technology has advanced.

Even though prices are generally lower than ever before, a contact wearer can still benefit by spending some time to search for the lowest price possible. Eye care centers often charge inflated prices, both for the convenience they offer and because they know that many consumers are covered by insurance and do not care much about the price. By buying on- line, contact wearers can minimize expenses and still get the same quality product they would find in a store.

Placing an order at Visiondirect.com is pretty simple. If you already have an account with drugstore.com Visiondirect.com is affiliated with Drugstore.com), you can use the same logon information for visiondirect.com since they are directly affiliated with each other. I have been using drugstore.com for many years, so my information (billing and shipping address, credit card number, etc.) were already in the database. All I had to do was enter my e-mail account and password, and select my lenses and the number of boxes. With two more clicks, my order was completed.

You will have to enter your prescription information to complete an order. The site will ask for your eye doctor's name, the place you got your last exam, the phone number, and so forth in order to comply with federal law. If it has been a long time since your last exam, your order will likely get rejected. You will have to get an eye exam and try again later.

The prices charged here at visiondirect.com are a little less than other on- line services and substantially less than those charged at your local vision care office. When I purchased my eight boxes of Bausch & Lomb #59 soft lenses, I paid only $13.95 per box. Since my order exceeded $100, I was given an automatic discount on top of the already lower prices. Had I purchased these same eight boxes at the store, the total cost would have been about 40 percent higher.  

Bottom Line:

Overall, this is probably the best on- line contact lens shopping experience I have had thus far. I have used other sites but they didn't offer prices as low as Visiondirect.com. There are probably some other good contact lens on- line stores out there in cyberland so I will keep my eyes open for them. One of these days, I will break down, get laser surgery performed on my eyes, and I won't need contact lenses again. But until then, I will continue to shop at Visiondirect.com. The site is easy to use, uncluttered, and efficient. The prices are low and the shipment was sent to my home in a very short time, earning Visiondirect.com a high recommendation.