When you purchase a pair of eyeglasses from a eyeglass shop that delivers high quality, they will get multiple inspections prior to being delivered to you. These multiple inspections help make sure that you get a very nice high quality pair of eyeglasses. For me, I have worked for many different eyeglass companies including: Lenscrafters, Pearle Vision, and Doctor’s ValuVision.

Working at Doctor’s ValuVision was horrible. Eventually I left their company to work for another due to the frustrations with their overall quality. Needless to say, not only did eyeglasses get manufactured without having inspections, one of the most important inspections of all — The Final Inspection — was never done.

Customers would pick up their eyeglasses without them having a final inspection done. The final inspection is very important because it is the very last inspection done prior to delivering the eyeglasses to a customer. When I worked for Lenscrafters, they were very supportive of opticians performing final inspections on the eyeglasses being manufucatured. One of my jobs working at Lenscrafters in fact was as a final inspector.

I can’t even begin to tell you how many adjustments and changes that I have had to have ordered because of eyeglasses not passing the final inspection. It is not uncommon for an optician to reject a pair of eyeglasses due to them not passing their final inspection. Normally, the cause for the failure or very minor things such as a lens being slightly crooked. Little things like that are normal and can be easily corrected. However, if they don’t get corrected, these errors can affect the customer’s vision.

When you pick up your eyeglasses, it is important to make sure that your eyeglasses went through a final inspection. Places that do a final inspection usually include a final inspection report with your order. To find out if your eyeglasses received a final inspection, you should ask the manager. Another way to assure that your eyeglasses were made correctly is to take them to another competing eyeglass store and have them look at them.

Believe me, they will be real strict with inspecting your eyeglasses because they are inspecting the eyeglasses of a competitor. They will look at your eyeglasses under a microscope (literally — it’s called a lensometer) and a fine tooth comb. If a competitor finds something wrong with your eyeglasses, they will create a report of their findings and you can take this report back to the original place you purchased the eyeglasses and request to have them remade correctly. If they deny your request, then simply get a refund.