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How to Buy Contact Lenses Online
The first step to buying contact lenses is to ensure that you have the correct prescription from your eye doctor or eye care practitioner. He will give you the extent of defect in your vision and the requirements to correct it. While there are many options including your own doctor, optical chains and mass merchandisers, online retailers selling contact lenses have acquired an importance of their own.
It is essential to first research different online retailers before making an informed decision. Internet contact lens sellers range from publicly traded companies to back-room operations with little staff. There are several online contact lens sellers with credible looking websites, but they all may not be suitable for you. Very often a website may look attractive and offer discounts and boast of a large variety of contact lenses, but it is difficult to judge the true operations behind the curtain of the Internet.
The Internet also offers the benefit of using Online Shopping Sites where you can compare prices of online contact lens sellers by using Comparing Online Prices websites such as BizRate, MySimon, Shopping.com, Froogle and Yahoo! Shopping. By entering a brand name a list of sellers with prices as well as links to the seller will pull up for your convenience. It may introduce you to new and unknown seller that you hitherto had not heard of or not come across. It also provides you with verbatim reviews and satisfaction ratings that will help you make a better decision. Typically, bigger companies are better as they have a larger stock catering to different needs, superior infrastructure in terms of efficient delivery, return policies, customer support etc. The company you select doesn't necessarily have to be huge — you just want to make sure you're not doing business with a basement operation.
Before you decide on a particular site use the check list given below:
- How credible and trustworthy is the company?
- Can you trust it with your credit card information?
- Do they accept telephone orders?
- This will show you that it is not some one-man website but a more reliable operation. How safe is the ordering process?
- How speedy and efficient is their shipping and handling?
- How is their return and refund policy?
- Is customer service readily available?
- Is there a 24/7 helpline and how efficient and courteous are they in solving grievances?
- Does the site have an "About Us" page?
This will allow you to check on the company, its people and its history.
Compare all the prices, base price, shipping handling and other hidden costs.
After taking all these factors into consideration and evaluating the online sellers, you can choose your internet shopping site.