Anyone who wears glasses knows they don’t tend to come cheap — the cost of frames, lenses, lens coatings and cases can mount up to hundreds of pounds.
Supermarkets and online retailers offering frames for as little as £3.95 are increasingly tempting and the UK online market is already worth £40 million.
But as a recent Which? report found, some online ‘bargains’ were not only a waste of money, but when it comes to varifocals can be ‘potentially very dangerous’.