"Amazingly Low Prices" Tested — ContactsCart Review
By Julie Sennett
·5 min read
The contact lens website ContactsCart's homepage claims "Your favourite contacts. Amazingly low prices." Ok, I'll bite!
Finding the lowest contact lens prices on the internet is my specialty. In this article I will review ContactsCart and we'll see just how low their prices are compared to other popular contact lens websites.
Who runs ContactsCart?
Before we dive into their prices, let's get a sense of who operates ContactsCart.
If you open up their privacy policy, you'll see that their parent company is Vision Path, Inc.
Vision Path, Inc... sounds familiar. Where have I seen them before?
Oh yeah! Hubble Contacts!
Well that makes sense. After all, the very first thing you see when you go to Hubble.com is a half-page link to ContactsCart on the right.
Ok so Hubble Contacts and ContactsCart are run by the same company. That's not necessarily a knock against ContactsCart except — as I've written about in the past, Hubble Contacts has made some false claims about its product in the past.
But let's keep an open mind!
ContactsCart Price Claims
Here are some of the claims found on ContactsCart's website:
- "Amazingly low prices"
- "the prices you want"
- "affordable contact lenses"
- "That's where we come in"
They don't specifically claim to have the lowest prices for contact lenses, but it does seem like they consider themselves a lot less expensive than their competitors. Let's see if that's true!
ContactsCart Prices — The Test
I'm not going to nitpick which brands I compare in order to try to find worst examples. I'm going to compare the brands that ContactsCart lists in their "Top Brands" menu, using the most common brand variation and box-size. I will compare ContactsCart's price with the 2 lowest prices I've been able to find at other contact lens websites.
| Brand / Size | ContactsCart | Lowest Found | 2nd Lowest Found |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acuvue Oasys 24pk | $88.99 | $60.94 | $82.95 |
| Biofinity 6pk | $34.40 | $19.58 | $26.75 |
| Proclear 6pk | $32.80 | $15.95 | $29.25 |
| SofLens 38 6pk | $21.26 | $14.95 | $15.97 |
| Clariti 1-Day 90pk | $46.40 | $52.98 | $59.74 |
| Biotrue ONEday 90pk | $48.00 | $30.78 | $49.95 |
| Bausch + Lomb ULTRA 6pk | $36.80 | $22.11 | $29.95 |
| Avaira Vitality 6pk | $23.20 | $18.94 | $26.95 |
Findings
As you can see from the contact lens price comparisons above, ContactsCart has mediocre-to-bad prices.
I compared all of ContactsCart's top brands and found that for all but one brand, ContactsCart's price was significantly higher than at least 2 other contact lens websites.
Surprisingly, however, for the brand Clariti 1-Day it actually had the lowest price I could find anywhere online. So credit to them for that!
About ContactsCart
My name is Julie and my mission is to uncover and showcase where the lowest contact lens prices can be found for every brand.
With all the different contact lens websites out there these days, what makes ContactsCart different?
Subscription Model
Much like their sister company Hubble Contacts, ContactsCart does everything on a subscription basis. A contact lens subscription means that when you order contact lenses, you will automatically be charged and sent a new supply when you're supposed to have run out.
For example if you wear monthly contact lenses and you purchase 6 pairs, in 6 months you will automatically receive 6 more pairs in the mail. This process goes on indefinitely until you cancel your subscription.
Pros
Contact lens subscriptions are good if you are prone to forgetting to order new contact lenses until you've already run out, putting you in a bind each time.
Cons
Price: You are locked into a certain price, which is not necessarily the best. Contact lens prices are always changing meaning that unless you do some price comparisons before each purchase, you're going to be overpaying for your contact lenses.
Practicality: If you are an infrequent or irregular contact lens wearer, it simply makes no sense to receive a set amount of contact lenses at regular intervals. For example if you only wear contact lenses during the summer, only for special occasions, or only for sports.
Cancelling: Once a company has your credit card information and has your consent to charge it recurrently, they don't usually make it easy to cancel. When you browse complaints about Vision Path, Inc. (Hubble Contacts & ContactsCart), a considerable number of complaints are about not being able to cancel their subscription — including reports filed with the Better Business Bureau, which gives Vision Path, Inc. a B rating overall.
Final Verdict on ContactsCart
The prices were fairly average. They are definitely not the highest that I've seen on other websites such as 1-800 Contacts or Walgreens, but they're also not the lowest by far.
The fact that prices are better for some brands and worse for others is not at all surprising — all contact lens websites do this. There is not one website out there that has the lowest price for every single brand. That's just the way it is, and it's why a price comparison site like Contacts Advice is so valuable.
While most of the brands I compared in this article were considerably higher than the lowest price found online, there was 1 brand which had the lowest price I could find anywhere. That being the case, I will start including ContactsCart in the websites that I compare monthly.
However, despite that, I have to conclude that ContactsCart does not live up to their claims of having 'amazingly low prices'.
Are you a fan of contact lens subscriptions? Have you ordered from ContactsCart? Please let me know in the comments below!
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