Well with my advanced age I am in the market for a prescription pair of sunglasses. The optician stated Maui Jim has the best prescription glass lens over Smith Optics then Costa.
Just curious what other folks think?
i'm curious did you buy your scripts through an authorized Costco prescription dealer in person? I did and mine are literally a better prescription than my regular glasses. I did get the glass lens for clarity purposes.
I went to my normal eye doctor for the exam and script, then took it to Costco to pick out and order the glasses. Your script needs to be less than a year old. I don't know why they care about that, but they do. They don't have the world's greatest selection of frames, but I've always found some that work for me.
I used a shop in North Carolina that a buddy of mine was really pushing. He was on the Costa pro/guide program I believe. I certainly assume they were an authorized rep, but can’t say I looked into it that carefully. This was probably 5-6 years ago.
I am on my third pair. I am sold on smith. I have glass amber lenses just for distance (because I didn't know better) and I like them a lot. Also later i bought rose low light plastic lenses (chroma-pop I think) they get lighter and darker w the sun. I absolutely love them for driving and wear them every day. A couple months after buying them I was running my boat after putting a new fuel tank in it and it was rough! I wanted to video tape the motor running - so I grabbed my phone to video it for the wife and while holding my phone with both hands the boat dug in right and I flipped heels over head right out of the boat at 25 knots.. needless to say I bought a new pair of glasses and a new phone. I got the 2nd pair from Patty at "eye and eye" off of sunset dr in miami and she suggested putting the reader a little lower than normal so when walking down a gunnel or getting off the platform you don't get thrown by the difference from the reading portion of the prescription (*brilliant*). It works great and I can read the GPS without adding readers! The glass amber lenses are better for sight fiahing. The rose ones are great all around glasses and I don't change them unless I am looking for fish once the sun is up.
I fished with a very well respected tournament guide recently and his opinion is that the ONLY lenses is the smith amber glass lense.
As well, a guy I met recently was in the keys and on a few overcast days swore that the tarpon were glowing while wearing the real low light smith almost clear lens.
I’ve been thrilled with Costas for decades. The only hitch was I got talked into plastic lenses by the helper at the optometrist - they fogged due to salt scoring in months, replaced with glass, fixed the problem. Good warranty, I’m sold
Costa and Smith are top quality. You also get to pay for the name too. Personally, I am a long time Costa fan. Buddy of mine really likes his Wiley X scrips.
I love my Smith scripts.
And it your ex-military you can get s hefty discount through Experticity. Wish I would have done it years ago.
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