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Lensabl has a rating of 4.0 stars from 5,724 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Lensabl most frequently mention customer service, new lenses, and great job. Lensabl ranks 2nd among Eyeglasses sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Easy and efficient”

Mike D.
10/18/24

What an easy to use and efficient service. I have a complicated prescription but Lensabl got it right there first time with minimal follow up questions. 10/10. I am grateful friends recommended me to you.

Top Critical Review

“Disappointed”

Alissa Q.
9/26/24

The glasses that I ordered are not useable. I'm INCREDIBLY disappointed and frustrated. Due to my light sensitivity, I decided to save my money and order a pair of prescription sunglasses. I ordered the top notch everything, and they're not useable. Also, it took an incredibly long time to receive the sunglasses. The interactions with Lensabl was a shame. Customer service isn't difficult. Kind, isn't hard. As I previously stated,

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1 review
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July 3rd, 2018

Overall not a good experience and I will not be using them in the future or recommend them to anyone.

Before I dig into the cons, let me start with what I liked: easy ordering process, cute case that the glasses come back in. Unfortunately, those are all the pros that I can list.

Now to what I didn't like:
* The wait time: It took FOREVER to get my glasses back (note: I was on the East coast, so if you are in the West coast, your shipping experience probably won't be as long). But for me, it took almost 1 month to get my glasses back. It took over a week for the box to ship for me to put my glasses in. It then took a week to ship it back. The glasses just sat around the Lensabl office for another week, and finally it took another week to ship back.
* They DID NOT follow instructions: I requested the original lenses in the glasses be sent back with the new ones that they were being replaced with. Only one of my original lenses came back. I sent in an inquiry to let them know that one of my lenses had been lost and have yet to get a response. I sent in a second inquiry and still waiting for a reply.
* Communication was not good: I kept having to send in inquiries proactively to inquire into the status of my glasses. I wanted them to be more proactive in letting me know where the glasses were or note any delays.
* Edges are not polished: I don't recall even seeing an option for polishing the edges, but my glasses came back with unpolished edges, and I hate the unrefined look of them (I'm going to have to take the glasses into a local optical shop to get the edges polished). I ordered one of the most expensive lenses on Lensabl, so I expected polished edges, but sadly this was not the case.

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November 13th, 2020
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It was just delivered to me and unfortunately after ALMOST A MONTH OF DELAY FOR THE REASON OF QUALITY CHECK DUE TO ISSUES WITH WORKMANSHIP, you have managed to send me a damaged pair of Bose frames that I purchased brand new.
Whoever worked on and put these lenses in this frame has manged to scrape/rub off and take the shine off the frame all around the edges and discolored it in a few different and random spots on both sides by what seems to be some kind of polishing/sanding device, my $600 pair of Bose frame & lens now look like some previously used for years pair of glasses.
This has been a really disappointing experience to start with and even worse now to finally receive them after all this time damaged like this by the person who worked on it.
Making it a flawless workmanship was the reason for it's delay to begin with as per your own customer support emails to me, and now this, completely disappointed and unacceptable.
I expect a call from a supervisor along with the return instructions for correction/refund ASAP, I will also be reaching out to Bose customer support to discuss this matter further in details.

Thank You,

* Lensabl attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

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March 16th, 2023
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Oy! I had what has to be the worst experience possible with Lensabl. I reached out to friends on Facebook to get suggestions for online places to fill my new eyeglass prescription. Several people recommended Lensable so I went with them. It took a month to finally get my glasses -- which had a very simple, single-vision prescription -- back from Lensable. When they arrived, they were bent out of shape as though they'd been on the head of the Statue of Liberty, lol. I had to take them to Warby Parker to have them re-adjusted for my small face. But worst of all, after cleaning my new lenses ONE TIME, using high-end Zeiss Lens Wipes, my glasses were completely scratched! I need them for night driving and when I put them on at night, the scratches made all lights (and especially headlights) look like something out of a psychedelic nightmare. I now have to spend another $120 to have the lenses redone from a local optician. Worse, the Customer Care I received during the month I waited and waited for my glasses, while relatively responsive, basically told me nothing except "We don't know what's happening, we contacted the lab and we'll let you know when we do." In desperation -- I had a trip coming up and needed to take my glasses with me for driving -- I sent a strongly worded letter saying I wanted to cancel my order and just please send my beloved frames back to me so I can get them filled before I leave. The next day I received a letter saying they had to be redone and were on the way. The whole experience was a total fiasco. Sadly, Lensabl is the LAST company I would now recommend to anybody I liked to fill their eyeglass prescription.

While Customer Service was relatively effective getting back to me within a few days each time I sent a message, they basically kept saying the same thing: "We don't know what's going or why it's taking so long, just be patient and we'll tell you when the lab gets back to us." Not very helpful or reassuring.

Reason I chose this business:

Several Facebook friends recommended Lensabl to me.

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May 7th, 2021
Verified purchase

Two orders made to your company have been extremely problematic. First of all, any company that doesn't have live customer service for this type of service is sketchy at best and just tells me that you don't want to deal with your responsibilities and most likely the tons of complaints. Both orders made with your company we're done precisely to the specifications laid out by your own personnel. Both times the service was horrible with little to no explanation on delays. The last order was confirmed to be for Tenor frames and it was expressly indicated that the lenses would be sent directly to me. This order was confirmed by staff but after almost a MONTH, I had to reach out to Lensabl to figure out what the delay was (for the second order straight). ONLY to find out that Lensabl disregarded the instructions and sat on the order to await my Tenor frames. Never once reaching out, but waiting for the customer to do the leg work. Not only that, because I didn't want to wait for days on end to get slow email responses, I waited for the chat service to be available but guess what…. That's broken too. I will be specifically telling everyone I know that when they get their frames go to a reputable lens service company and have them do it. The only reason I didn't blow up at your staff is because you of course already had my money (no incentive to perform professionally and responsibly because you already have what YOU want) and I didn't trust this company to make good on any orders since I had no leverage at this point and you already demonstrated how much your could screw up at this time on two separate orders. Then when you do send out the lenses, you send it in a reused box with a scraped up case where the lenses shifted around loosely inside because the padding wasn't even taped. Very nice…but most importantly, never again will I or anyone I know do business with you again.

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August 13th, 2023
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I was a bit skeptical about the lens replacement service that Lensabl provides but it was an amazing experience! I will definitely use Lensabl again!

Reason I chose this business:

They make the process easy.

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Sheridan C. – Lensabl Rep

Hi, Brandy! Thank you for your fantastic 5-star review! We're thrilled to hear that your initial skepticism turned into an amazing experience with our lens replacement service. Your trust and satisfaction mean the world to us, and we're so glad we could make the process easy for you. We can't wait to serve you again in the future. If you ever have any questions or need assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out. Your feedback is truly appreciated!

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November 16th, 2020
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Great experience! I was sent a box to pack up my frames in, and I received them back with a nice case and lens cleaner. Lenses are great too!

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December 14th, 2023
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Glasses came out amazing! Adding a prescription can sometimes be difficult but lensable made it easy!"

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Sheridan C. – Lensabl Rep

Hi, Tim!

We're delighted to hear that you are satisfied with the outcome of your glasses and that our service made the prescription process easy for you. If you have any further needs or questions, feel free to reach out. Thank you for choosing Lensabl!

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August 28th, 2020
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I sent over a pair of knock around NERF special editions and spent way too much money doing some custom lenses, but it was totally worth it and I love what I ordered!

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May 24th, 2022

I sent in 4 pairs of frames and 2 prescriptions (two pairs for each person). There have been nothing but problems from the very beginning. Early on, I got an email from a rep there asking why one of the pdf prescriptions didn't match "what you entered in the grid." I didn't enter *anything* into a grid. I sent in pdf photos of the prescriptions my doctor gave us.
Sure enough though, the hand scrawled prescription in the 'grid' didn't match my doctor's.
I wrote back immediately, but got no response, so I called... and called... and called (until I finally got a live person).
When I did, the live person confirmed that the perscription for 2 pairs of frames, was, indeed, wrong. And, they went into production that way! Turns out, someone THERE, at their LAB had transposed the prescription incorrectly. And, without double-checking, or waiting to hear back from the customer, they just went on ahead.
So, production had to be halted and started over with the right prescription.
Here we are, weeks later, and it's nothing but delay after delay. The 'live tracker' (which doesn't work, Lensabl!), shows "7 business days" as the time to shipping. It's said the same thing all week.

When I chatted with customer service, they hemmed and hawed and said, "Well, there was a holiday." I said, "What? Easter? That falls on a Sunday anyway... how is that adding to the delay?" The customer service rep said, "Good Friday is a federal holiday."
Um... no, my dude. It's NOT.

So I have no earthly idea what those Christians are doing over there, at Lensabl. They sure as heck aren't making lenses correctly, or shipping out glasses though!

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September 20th, 2021
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Took dam 2 months for lenses and didn't put in the line for reading can't read with them. Big waste of money for $#*! lenses.

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July 24th, 2021
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Great experience. I needed to replace my prescription Maui Jim lenses without the Maui Jim price and here we are! Great job. Came in perfect!

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June 3rd, 2021
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It took about 2.5 weeks from start to finish to receive my box, ship my glasses, and get them back. Totally worth it! Very happy.

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May 28th, 2021
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Took a while to get them but worth the wait. I love my glasses! The prescription lenses are perfect and the frames are light weight.

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May 27th, 2021
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This is my second pair of lens replacement and again very impressed with the quality of work! My glasses are well packed and cleaned. Thanks!

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December 20th, 2020
Verified purchase

Loved that you guys were able to send a box for me to ship my old glasses for free. New lenses look great. Thank you.

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September 8th, 2020
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Very happy to find Lensabl. They put new lenses on my favorite frames. The website is so easy to use and the service is great!

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November 13th, 2020
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The glasses I received are great. The process was a bit slow and their customer service is questionable but the website ordering process worked well.

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April 23rd, 2021
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After 3 weeks my 3 pair arrived with wrong prescription in them. E mailed company and still waiting for them to get back to me

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September 30th, 2020
Verified purchase

Pretty good with the exception of my glass case being exchanged for yours. I want my case returned. It's sturdy and protects my 409$ frames.

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October 19th, 2022
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It took a month for my glasses to complete and when I received it, the metal nose pad holder broke off making my glasses useless.

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October 28th, 2020
Verified purchase

After my eye surgery, I could not use my old glasses, but the frames were still great... and you, Lensabl replaced my new glasses beautifully

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April 20th, 2021
Verified purchase

When I got my glasses I was so excited and made me look younger they're perfect fit awesome color on me

I know I think I still get a reimbursement that I'm waiting on it's taking a while

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October 24th, 2022
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I ordered my glasses in June with a blue xtractive transitions lense. A month later, I still hadn't received them. Then I had someone from customer service find out what was going on at the lab because the site hadn't updated the status. A couple of weeks later, I got the glasses and the tint was brownish amber. I sent them back and weeks later I was notified they had broken the frame I had purchased from them and it was discontinued. They said I could send them a link and they could buy a frame I wanted. It has been three months since I first ordered and they are waiting on an outside frame and I have no idea when I will receive them. I need them now. I already paid and cannot just buy another pair. Although they are trying to solve it, they don't seem to have any sense of urgency or willingness to expedite the process. In the past I had a good result with them on replacement lenses, but apparently things have changed post COVID. They claim to check orders before sending them out but mine weren't close to blue and the order form said blue lenses.

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November 3rd, 2023
Verified purchase

The ordering interface was clunky and confusing. The UX and ease of use for customers could definitely be improved.

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Sheridan C. – Lensabl Rep

Hi, Karla!

Thank you for sharing your feedback about the ordering experience with Lensabl. I'm sorry to hear that you found the interface clunky and confusing. User experience is crucial for online services, and it's important for companies to provide a seamless and user-friendly ordering process.

Your feedback is valuable, and it can help identify areas for improvement.

If you have any further eyewear needs or feedback in the future, please feel free to reach out to our customer service team.

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November 2nd, 2023
Verified purchase

The entire process took weeks more than I had anticipated with few updates (accurate updates) on the tracking portal.

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Sheridan C. – Lensabl Rep

Hi, Harrison!

We apologize for any inconvenience you experienced with the length of the process and the tracking updates. We understand that timely service and accurate information are important to our customers. If you have any specific concerns or if there's anything we can do to improve your experience, please feel free to reach out to our customer support team. Your feedback is valuable to us, and we're here to assist you further if needed. Thank you for choosing Lensabl.

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