[Magdalen] Dumb question about eyeglasses

[Scott Knitter]

Just asking around:

I'm years overdue for an eye exam and new glasses.

What I'd like to do is get an exam at a place that has the most up-to-date
technology, and take the resulting prescription to shop around for an
affordable deal (quite possibly online) on the glasses.

What I fear is that I'll go to a place like LensCrafters, get the exam, and
have to fight off a hard sell on looking at their glasses. I won't,
because I cannot afford to come out of there with $800 glasses.

But has anyone done this successfully? Got a very good exam and then
shopped around?

Last time I got glasses I like, but it took two tries to get a prescription
that worked. I went to an independent optician who was phenomenally highly
regarded, many decades of experience, but I didn't think he had the best
equipment and didn't get the first exam right. So I spent two weeks in a
fog before making him redo my exam.

I've also thought of going to an ophthalmologist, but at this point I think
I should just get a good exam from an optometrist and be referred to an
ophthalmologist if there are any concerns.

-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA