Payless Optical

Cheap glasses and fast service.
Feb 6th, 2023

Jan 10th, 2023

An excellent little shop run by a really nice man who goes out of his way to help. I only discovered this place recently. Wish I'd known about it years ago!
Oct 6th, 2022

Felix is an absolute genius and repaired my favorite pair of glasses that I accidentally sat on when I was 20 pounds heavier.  These glasses are my absolute favorite: FENDI brand glasses that had the perfect retro 70's secretary look: slightly oversized and purple at the top that gradated into a retro burnt orange color at the bottom half of the frames.  My glasses were what I thought to be almost beyond repair: one arm had completely fallen off and the other arm was bent downward so that the glasses were unwearable and the arm connecting the nose pads was swinging left to right.  I could've let these glasses go and the original optical shop I purchased them from told me to do so, but I knew that I should keep the faith and I could visit Payless Optical for the first time and Felix could repair them.     Felix looked over my glasses turning them left and right, up and down with respect and focus, smiled and told me that he could do his best and have them repaired for me.  I came back in less than a week and the glasses look and feel brand new!!! I couldn't even believe my happiness seeing that these glasses were not only repaired but revived. I haven't been this happy in a long time! I told Felix that I almost want to sit on a few more pairs of my glasses to have an excuse to come back! Thank you so very much, Felix- you are a great guy!
Jul 6th, 2022

This was truly one of the best experiences I have had with a vendor in San Francisco! Felix is very experienced and kind... working in a small shop in the Mission where I assume he has been for years.He repaired two pair of sunglasses that I had had in a drawer for a long long time.And did so while I waited and for not a lot of money. He is also of Ukraine descent and in these troubling times I was touched by his concern for his home.I can only hope he will stay in business for many years to come.
Mar 1st, 2022