Waldo is a contact lens subscription for affordable, high-quality daily contact lenses that you can tailor to meet your needs. They offer an Easy quarterly plan or a Flexi plan with options for deliveries every 4, 6 or 8 weeks for $18 per box + free shipping.
This review is of the Waldo's Free Trial Box – you can get your own for free here (just pay shipping)! (You can learn more about subscription boxes you can try for free here!)
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About Waldo
The Box: Waldo
The Cost: $18 per box (making it $36 for both eyes) + free shipping
Free Trial Deal: Get 10 free pairs for just $2.95 shipping! No coupon required, just use this link!
The Products: 30 lenses per box
Ships to: US, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and military APO/DPO/FPO addresses.
Good to know: They currently don't offer multifocal lenses or toric lenses. From Waldo:
We don’t offer toric lenses for those with astigmatism just yet, however, we’re working hard on these! If you would like to be notified as soon as we offer toric lenses, please complete this form.
Waldo Contact Lens Free Trial Box Review February 2019
I have been wearing contact lenses for at least 20 years now and I always prefer low-maintenance lenses. I usually wear monthly lenses, but I like the idea of having a fresh pair to wear each day since monthly lenses seem to get a bit blurry and dry as I near the end of the month! Also, daily lenses are supposed to be more hygienic.
Waldo began as a UK company and recently began offering lenses in the US. They offer two different options, the Easy or the Flexi:
- Easy: Quarterly subscription- 3 boxes per eye every 3 months for $108 every 12 weeks
- Flexi: 1 box per eye every 4, 6 or 8 weeks for $36 each delivery
You can also select the option to have lenses delivered for just one eye for $18 per box.
Signing up for the free trial was easy. You select your prescription and then enter in your doctor's details. You can look them up, or enter them manually and they will take care of contacting your eye doctor for your prescription. Once your free trial is complete, you are automatically signed up for the Easy plan, but it was very easy to cancel, which I'll talk more about later!
It took about a week for me to get my lenses after signing up, but I think it should typically be quicker than that since there was a postal holiday during that week. Waldo lenses come in a recyclable blue box and each lens comes in its own recyclable plastic container, which is typical of monthly lenses as well.
My lenses came with a guide that included instructions for wearing them and removing them. I have tried lenses in the past whose shape has made it difficult to tell which side is for applying to your eye, but it was easy to distinguish whether these were inside out or not!
The guide also included some information about the lenses and recommended that you not sleep in them or extend their use longer than their intended daily use. The lenses are made of 58% water content + 42% Etafilcon A and their oxygen permeability is 25 x 10 Dk/t. They offer UV protection and are a Class II meaning they block at least 70% UVA and 95% UVB radiation.
The lenses are 14.2mm diameter with a base curve of 8.5mm, which is suitable for most contact lens wearers, although they hope to expand their options as they grow. The expiration date and lens power are marked on the outside of the box as well as on top of each individual lens pack. They currently offer lenses with powers ranging from +4.00D to -12.00D. At this time they don't offer multifocal lenses or toric lenses. From Waldo:
We don’t offer toric lenses for those with astigmatism just yet, however, we’re working hard on these! If you would like to be notified as soon as we offer toric lenses, please complete this form.
These lenses are designed for comfort with a super fine edge design so that you can barely notice them when you blink and the aspheric lenses are supposed to give you HD vision. My vision was definitely clear and I found them to be comfortable and not noticeable in my eyes.
I felt that they kept my eyes moist throughout the day, but they were pretty comparable to my monthly lenses as far as feeling a bit dry towards the later part of the evening as my eyes grew more tired.
Another nice perk of this subscription is that there is no commitment. From Waldo:
You can easily tailor your plan to suit you: set your delivery frequency, change your next delivery date or cancel your plan any time in your account online.
It is incredibly easy to change your frequency or even to cancel your account. To cancel my free trial I just went under the billing section and selected the option to stop my subscription. Then I answered a few questions and I was done. No calling in or hassle of emailing customer service.
I was also able to easily reactivate my subscription and all of my information was saved.
Verdict: I think that Waldo lenses are exactly what they proclaim to be: affordable, hassle-free daily contact lenses. The lenses themselves were comfortable and improved my vision the way they should. I love that they offer flexibility in their plans and that you can cancel and reactivate your membership at any time. The Flexi plan is great for anyone who doesn't wear contacts regularly so that they can have them on hand when they need them. I also thought the free trial was the perfect way to test them out and was pleased with how easy it was to verify my subscription and get my lenses delivered to me. For $2.95, I definitely recommend testing these Waldo lenses out!
To Wrap Up:
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