Seattle Vision Care Center
311 Union St,
Seattle, WA

The doctor refused to write me a prescription for 2 week lenses after I mentioned that I sometimes wear them longer than 2 weeks because I clean them. The doctor outright refused - and essentially required me to go to another doctor to get the prescription I wanted. A total waste of time. The doctor was going to charge me $80 a month for the crappiest one day contacts I've ever tried. The "nicer" ones were $160 a month. These guys are running a racket for "my safety." Well, I've been wearing 2 week lenses for 10 years and have only had a small number of incidents that usually stem from leaving them in overnight (which has nothing to do with the duration of the lenses). The refused to write the prescription, kept giving me daily lenses to try to keep me strung out, and I completely felt like they were pushing me into a product I didn't want. I'd avoid this place at all costs - it was really disappointing. I felt like their motivations were monetary, not that they cared about my eyes. I felt like they were looking for reasons to sell me a more expensive product, and keep me on their dole at $100+ a month.

These guys are great! I've been going to Dr. Habib for the past few years. He provides friendly and fast service. His staff are great as well. Ordering new lenses and getting paperwork sent to me have always been easy tasks. They even decided to overnight a shipment of contact lenses when the original address on the shipment was incorrect.

I have a very strong prescription, tend to go for thin metal frames, and am used to transition lenses. All of these combined tend to make me the perfect difficult case for vision clinics to deal with. Most average places take me about 2-3 months to get my glasses finalized. The usual process for me looks like this: 3-4 weeks cause special order lenses+cutting them down, the first time they are never done right. Second time a manager takes over my case, and after another 3-4 weeks backorder for new lenses+manufacturing, I get them back almost right, but there is usually one big glaring mistake that makes the glasses uncomfortable. For round 3, (another 3-4 weeks) they focus on the one thing they got wrong in round 2, and I get back something I can wear. This has hands down been the easiest glasses acquiring experience of my life. I got my glasses back after 2 days, and they were perfect. Seriously, hats off to the technician. The have the highest index for transition lenses that I have ever seen, carry a couple of really great brands (looking at you Mykita!), and the craftsmanship of their technician is wonderful. They did make a mistake with my order, ordering non-transition lenses by accident. When I brought this to their attention, the first thing they asked was how they could make this right, I am currently working with them to get this corrected. Given how great my experience has been to date, I almost feel guilty about making them redo my lenses.