Do you experience a feeling of dread every time you dig through your medicine cabinet/makeup case/bedside table to discover you are out of contact lenses? Does the idea of having an eye doctor poke around your eyes give you chills? Fortunately, you no longer have to put up with the hassle of driving over to visit the eye doctor and plunking down hundreds of dollars in order to get additional contact lenses. While it is still a good idea to get occasional eye doctor checkups (especially if you notice your vision is less-than-stellar), you can now order contacts online from a number of different vendors!
The most obvious benefit to ordering contact lenses online is the convenience. You avoid the previously mentioned trip to the eye doctor AND the additional trip to pick up the contacts. When you order online, the contacts are delivered to your door.
Surprisingly, in addition to being ultra-convenient, online contacts are often significantly cheaper than the ones you get from your eye doctor. And they are the SAME contact lenses – since online contact lense distributors buy and sell in bulk, they are able to give you discounted rates your eye doc probably wouldn’t be able to match.
Finally, online contact distributors such as 1-800-Contact and Discount Contact Lenses have large selections and backorders, so your contacts are generally ready to ship upon order – in some cases you can get contact lenses more quickly from ordering online than you can from a local distributor. All in all, the ability to buy contacts online makes it a good deal less stressful to realize you’re running low on lenses.
