O/T Eye exam at CostCo.........

My eyes are the one area where I won't scrimp. I can't believe the price I pay for a good pair of glasses. But I consider this both my necessity and splurge. I'm loyal to my eye doctor.

But I know several people who have had very good luck with Costco exams and frames.

On 8/2/2014 just bee said:

My eyes are the one area where I won't scrimp. I can't believe the price I pay for a good pair of glasses. But I consider this both my necessity and splurge. I'm loyal to my eye doctor.

I agree with you ... anything for my sight/hearing/medical - I don't bargain hunt. My eye doctor doesn't do eye exams ... my optometrist is really good.

I have gone both routes. One year I had my eye exam perform at Costco and it was perfectly fine, I also purchased my glasses from them as well.

Last year I had an eye exam done at a place call "The Eye Institute" received my prescription and I still went to Costco to purchase my glasses.

I need to add that it's an eye exam, not surgery. Costco is fine.

I've had at least three eye exams at Costco and subsequently purchased my glasses from them as well. The eye exam was perfectly fine, no different than going to an optometrist. As someone else stated, it's an eye exam for glasses, not brain surgery.

Costco optical was top rated in consumer reports. They sell designer frames. But you do know that basically ALL frames,cheap to the highest price are made by two optical companies,right! There was a big expose on like 20/20 or something. Costco makes top notch glasses for unbeatable prices!

On 8/2/2014 CAshopper2011 said: I haven't gone to Costco for an exam but purchase my contacts there. Exams are performed by an optometrist at Costco just like at any optometrist's office, right? Why would anyone think a Costco optometrist is subpar anyway? I'm just curious, not being argumentative. I do have an optometrist that I go to locally but I can't claim that she has superior education and training than anyone Costco might employ.