Buyer’s remorse can include the pair of prescription sunglasses you bought online that can’t hack it on trail runs. Tifosi Optics wants you to skip the regret of buying the wrong pair, or the hassle of trying on sporty frames in a store. With its new program, you can order multiple pairs of performance eyewear to try on (and test out) at home.
It claims its new at-home try-on program for prescription sports glasses is the first of any performance-driven eyewear brand offered directly through its website. Test out as many of Tifosi’s 11 sport-designed frames as you’d like over 5 days. Once you pick your favorite, mail back the sample frames with a prepaid label for a full refund.
How It Works
Tifosi Optics currently offers 11 different performance-designed, prescription-lens-ready frames in its at-home try-on program: Vero Rx, Swick Rx, Swank Rx, Swank XL Rx, Svago Rx, Veloce Rx, Salto Rx, Selca Rx, Shutout Rx, Rivet Rx, and the new Shumo Rx.
Each frame requires a $25 deposit to try on, which is refunded once you return the samples.
You can try on as many frames as you like for 5 days, provided you’re okay with fronting the $25-per-frame deposit fees. That gives you time to take each frame out for your favorite activities. Test each pair across a stretch of weather patterns, available light, and sweaty lengths of time.
Being able to test out multiple frames to ensure they fit your activity and your face comfortably, it says, gave Tifosi its platform for creating this program.
Tifosi Optics’ prescription glasses start at $99. It claims its at-home try-on program brings a “practical, risk-free solution to online eyewear shopping.”
Prescriptions, Lenses, and Tint Options
Tifosi Optics offers single vision and progressive prescriptions with this program. Choose from three lens types: standard (either clear or tinted), polarized for reduced sun glare, or Fototec, a tint that darkens in sunlight, like Transitions lenses.
Its lens coating options include an anti-reflective and/or anti-fog option and a blue-light blocking option. It also offers two tint colors (Smoke or Brown) and six mirror colors (red, blue, yellow, green, gray, or pink).
Why We’re Intrigued
The ability to test multiple options at home before committing to a purchase makes this program a no-brainer. It’s one of the big reasons why GearJunkie tests and reviews so many products for outdoor activities, like the Best Sunglasses for Running, Fishing, or overall being Outdoors.
Getting to test these frames out for yourself for a minimal price (that’s fully refunded) seems pretty smart.
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