How to Get Contact Lenses for Free

You maybe have seen the offers and are wondering how people are getting contact lenses for free. Let me take a minute and briefly explain how you can also take advantage of offers for free contacts.

The way it works is, the manufacturers of different brands of contact lenses do not frequently advertise nationally on places like TV or the radio. You do see some ads in magazines and sometimes commercials on TV but they've chosen to instead put that advertising into offering free, trials of their product for you to sample. This works well in a number of ways. First, they get their product into your hands (or into your eyes - depending on how you want to look at it - sorry for the puns). Secondly, you get to try out various contact lenses and see which ones you like the best. You may be using one particular brand now but after trying a different brand, you may find that they fit better and are easier to take in and out. You don't know until you try, right?

So offers for free, trial contact lenses benefit both you and the manufacturers of contact lenses. It's a win-win situation and you get to save money on contacts while you are sampling the trial pairs. So find all the offers that you can - for sure. In doing that, you're sure to find the best ones for you.

If your contact lens prescription isn't up to date, you'll need to go see your eye doctor. It's good to do that anyway, so no big deal. You're not going to be able to get free contacts unless you have a current prescription because it does cost money for the manufacturers to make and send them to you. They're going to need to know that the ones they're sending are ones that are right for you and ones that you will need in the future. So make sure you do that.

You can, and probably should, first find offers for free, trial contacts before you go see your eye doctor. Find offers online and fill out whatever information they need so that you get the information on how to order them. Once you've had your eye exam, you'll then be ready and will know how to order your free contact lenses. Go ahead and order all the trial pairs at once. You can keep them all around until you're ready to try the next brand.

As you evaluate each brand, you will want to take notes on how each one feels to you. This will help you make your final decision later.

Also, if any of the trial contacts don't feel right, you should stop wearing them. Trust what your eyes are telling you.

Get loads more information about free contact lenses along with a download to help you keep good notes on all of the brands of contact lenses you try out at the Free Contact Lenses Guide.

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For most people who have to require some type of prescription from their optometrist, they are probably not going to want to wear overly bulky glasses, or may be completely afraid of or even not have the money for the more expensive LASIK based surgeries to help clear up your eyesight. For you guys that are in the middle group, you are going to be the ones wearing contacts and probably be receiving more than your fair share of trial contact lenses from the eye doctor to help you decide which manufacturer you want to use. Because there is such a high volume of contact lens wearers, the companies that produce these have to go to incredible lengths to ensure they are going to receive business.

Before you go out and try getting a bunch of trial contact lens offers going - which are free contact lenses, you want to stop by and see your optometrist or eye doctor so they can properly determine the prescription and give you the best suggestions for what companies to start with. Once you have this prescription, you are going to want to keep it with you at all times in case you are out and have lost your last set of contacts, you can easily stop by any eye doctor or optometry office and have them replace the set for you. You may not be able to quickly get your exact prescription, but the eye doctor is going to know what can be used by your eyes and is going to help you to avoid any type of contacts that could possibly be out of the range of your prescription, or you may have problems using.

Once you've gotten the prescription from the doctor, and have probably already placed your first order for a set of contact lenses, you are going to be receiving offers through the mail from other contact manufacturers. You will be lucky if you don't want out of the eye doctors office with a hand full trial contact lenses for you to try in the weeks to come. Once you've gone through these though, start sending in the offers from all of the manufacturers stating that they want to give you free trial contact lenses to help you determine if you want to switch to their company. As always, make sure you have a pair of glasses for backup in case you lose a contact lens.