OPTX 20/20 Ecoclear Ozone Bio Based Reading Glasses

I have bought these flexible readers many times over 5 years. No they are not indestructible. Nor are they a waste of your money. I am hard on my readers, wearing them all day or hanging from my neck. They stand up to some pretty rough abuse from me. besides the flexibility of the frames, I have found the Optx 20/20 lenses to be exceptionally optically correct and clear viewing for being a plastic lens. I have not found a reader that is has such clear lens' and hold up so well. Look at the construction. These are light weight glasses but I keep buying when i need a new pair. Haven't found any better, yet. Lastly, since i have purchased and damaged several sets, from my own carelessness, I keep the parts. I have many times swapped parts to construct a good pair. In my opinion anyone who would complain about these glasses, had their expectations unjustifiably too high. I love them. i give them 5 stars for what they are, not what an ultimate pair of readings might be.

Love these glasses. I've been wearing them for over a decade. They use to sell them at Wal-Mart for less than $20.00. Eventually Wal-Mart discontinued them and I could only find them on the manufacturer's website, where I've been buying them for the last few years for $30.00. Now the price on the manufacturer's website is $40.00. That drove me to Amazon to find them. Same glasses, much better price. However, I'm sure the one's on Amazon are over stocks from a vendor, because the selection of color and intensity is very limited.PROS: Lightweight crystal clear lenses that don't make my eyes hurt or give me headaches.CONS: Fairy fragile. I have to tighten the screws often the and break the nose piece and lenses regularly. But I've tried other and and cheaper glasses, and the quality (per my eyeballs) is not the same. I can wear these all day and don't bother me when looking at my computer screens.

I purchased 2 pairs of these. One tortoise pair 250 strength and one black 200 strength. The black pair have been fine. The tortoise pair however, was tight at the left temple hinge right from the start. Since it is riveted at the hinge (screwed on at the lens itself) there is no way to loosen the binding hinge. I didn't use them much,mostly left them near the coffee table for book reading, and usually left them open so they wouldn't have to be opened and closed as much. Looking back on it, I should have used these as my primary pair, so they would have failed within the 30 days. Well, you guessed it, I opened them up after the 30 days and the left temple piece broke off at the hinge pin rivet.I did write OPTX 20/20 a couple of weeks ago, but no response (thus far). I was asking for a replacement temple arm (since it can be removed via a screw at the left lens). On the OPTX website, I found a warranty policy that states one is supposed to ship the 'defective' pair back prepaid with tracking and include $10.00 (for return shipping). Well,lets see... $5.00 or so to ship them there and $10.00 for return shipping? I paid $17.00 here on Amazon, so not worth the trouble I think.4.5 stars for the product itself (if not defective), and zero stars for the service and warranty = 2 stars in my book.Suggestion: Amazon is great for returns and exchanges, so if you opt to get any OPTX products, use them well for the first 30 days, and send them back for exchange if you find yours bind at either temple when first new (to Amazon not OPTX)Cheers!Update 10-29-2011I opted to try and see how much effort it would take to get a replacement pair from OPTX. After I contacted OPTX directly via an email, I got a response a week later. I did send my broken pair back (in a box) and they sent a new pair in a bubble mailer. Crushed during shipment. I called their 1-800 number the day I received the replacement broken pair. This time,they sent another pair right away and in a box, wonderful! The lenses on this last pair were marked from?? After a careful cleaning with plastic polish, all of the odd marks came out.In the end,I did get another good pair to replace the first pair, but what a lot of effort to go through. They are nice lightweight glasses anyway. So for the replacement pair that did finally ship in use-able condition, I changed my original 2 star review to 4 stars.Cheers!

I bought this pair to replace the same brand reading glasses that I have used and loved for over 2 years. Quality has really dropped since I bought my last pair. I put the glasses on the side table when I'm not using them, so I don't fold them closed very often... still, one of the HINGES FELL APART within the first 10 days I owned them. The plastic hinge is so thin and weak that I am surprised it ever held at all. The lenses are great, but the frame is junk. Very disappointing. I searched the internet to find these - what a waste of my time and money. JUNK.