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With the advancement of our technology and the emergence of the internet, people are able to shop and buy almost everything they need from food, home furniture, clothing, and even personal items like prescription eyeglasses.

In this article, I will be teaching you of the ways on how to purchase your prescription eye glasses and the requirements that you need to have, in order to have a smooth transaction online.

Some people refuse to buy prescription eyeglasses because they feel that the quality of the glasses will not satisfy them. Some also thinks that getting the perfect fit for the frame is still best done in an optical shop, where you can randomly fit one frame to another, until you are fully satisfied with the comfort. While these concerns are true, nothing still beats the many benefits that you can get from buying your prescription eyeglasses online. Furthermore, there are several ways that you can still do, in order to find yourself the best prescription eyeglasses that matches your taste, comfort preference, and more.

So what are the many benefits that you will get from buying your prescription eye glasses online? Here are some of them:

Since the internet is the home of hundreds of different optical shops, you are not limited to the designs and styles. You can compare one shop from another easily, at the comfort of your home, at your own preferred pace and time.
Since online merchants do not have too much overhead expense, they do not need to place a high mark up on their items, which give you the benefit of getting your prescription eyeglasses at the most affordable price that you can never find in physical optical stores.
Online optical shops, especially the good ones, offer a flexible payment schemes and a safe payment portal, to make sure that your financial information are secured.

These are just some of the many benefits that you can get, if you choose to buy your prescription eyeglasses online. There could be more, but I think the ones that I mentioned above are already enough to give you an idea of how practical it is to buy your prescription eyeglasses online.

Requirements For Buying Your Prescription Eyeglasses Online:

- Eyeglass prescription from your doctor (This is still needed, and you can always request this from your eye doctor any time)
- Your eyeglass prescription should indicate your pupil distance
- Contact details of your eye doctor (Telephone, business address, email etc.)
- Credit card for purchasing

Once you already have your requirements, you can now proceed to shopping for your prescription eyeglasses.

How To Buy Your Prescription Eyeglasses

The first thing that you have to do, is to find a shop where you are buying your glasses from. Make sure to read about the shop’s credibility and reputation, to ensure a smooth and hassle free transaction.

When you are convinced on a particular shop already, choose from the different eyeglasses they have in their catalogue. Make sure to read the description of the glasses carefully, including the size of the frame, material used, and brand too (if you are particular about it).

When you are done shopping, you can go ahead and place your order. Most often than not, online shops for prescription eyeglasses will require you to fax the prescription letter that was given to you by your doctor. You might also need to provide some of your doctor’s contact details. Make sure to inform your doctor about your plan of ordering prescription eyeglasses online, so that he knows that someone from the online shop’s staff might be calling his office for confirmation.

Once you have successfully submitted your prescription requirements, proceed to the checkout page where you are going to finish your order, by paying for your purchase. Enter your credit card number and other information about it. Before you hit the purchase button, make sure to read the details of your order first, to make sure that you did everything right. Read the terms of ordering, and when you are convinced and amendable to it, you can now place and complete your order.

These are the different steps that you have to know, when ordering prescription eyeglasses online.