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[Yardlie]

Just wondering where you purchase your contacts from? I read once in a magazine that prices can vary greatly. I have been purchasing mine from Contact Lens King online. I just got a new prescription and am wondering if there are less expensive sites.

Thanks!

[elrager]

If your a Costco member- they are the cheapest I've found!!

[Yardlie]

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@elrager wrote:

If your a Costco member- they are the cheapest I've found!!

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Thanks, elrager. We don't have a Costco here. I think I've heard that you can buy prescriptions at the "club" stores even if you are not a member though.

[SilleeMee]

@Yardlie,

Where else??...WALMART!

If you type in "contact lenses" in their search box it takes you to a page all about contacts and free shipping for all.

[Yardlie]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

@Yardlie,

Where else??...WALMART!

If you type in "contact lenses" in their search box it takes you to a page all about contacts and free shipping for all.

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@SilleeMee, unfortunately Walmart is extremely high on their contacts. Maybe it's because their optical shops are independently owned. Crazy, huh!

[SilleeMee]

@Yardlie,

I had no idea they cost more. Will they do a price-match? They do with other things.

[Charming1]

For the last 3 years I purchased from ReplaceMyContacts.  I think they have good prices, at least for the lenses I wear.  I  usually get free shipping and they're also very easy to do business with.

When I was researching some time ago, I believe Contact Lens King was one of the places that kept popping up as having good prices too.

Wal-Mart and Sam's were more costly.

[abbeythe 8th]

Before I had Lasik, my ophthalmologist would price match. At that time 1-800-CONTACT had the best price for my lenses.

[KellyinColorado]

You can't really get discounted contacts anymore.  All of the manufacturers have instituted minimum pricing policies.  See paragraph below pasted from Money magazine.  

The manufacturers are taking advantage of a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established that it was legal for price floors to be set in certain situations.  It’s impossible to prove that Johnson & Johnson, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb, and other big sellers are conspiring to set prices, yet all have instituted unilateral pricing, which means that retailers aren’t allowed to sell their products below a certain price. The net result is that stores and online sellers can’t discount the vast majority of name-brand contact lenses on the market, so there’s no point in consumers shopping around.

http://time.com/money/3866955/contact-lens-price-fixing/

[jpie]

I used to use 1-800 contacts, but found that AC Lens (online) was a lot less expensive.  They do follow-up to make sure your optometrists phone # (and prescription I suppose) is valid, whereas 1-800 was hit or miss with this.