Read this first. Contact Lens HQ and Style Site Optical share common ownership. This is the one page on this site where we have something to sell you, and we are telling you that up front rather than at the bottom in grey text. Every other page on this site is independent and stays that way — Contact Lens HQ does not sell contact lenses. The practice does, and only to people in Florida, because that is where Dr. Bollar is licensed.
If you live in Florida and you buy your lenses online, there is a good chance you are paying more than you would pay us — because of a rebate rule almost nobody reads. And you can order from your phone and have them delivered, exactly like the websites.
The rule
Three of the four contact lens manufacturers require you to buy the lenses from the eye doctor who prescribed them in order to qualify for their rebate. CooperVision’s 2026 document does not leave it ambiguous — it excludes 1-800 Contacts, Costco and internet retailers by name. Bausch + Lomb requires receipts from the prescribing practitioner. Alcon says to buy from the doctor who prescribed them.
Those rebates run to $250.
So the comparison most people make — our price against the cheapest website — is the wrong comparison. The right one is our price minus the rebate, against the website price, where no rebate exists.
And here is the part that should annoy you: in sworn testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Johnson & Johnson’s own witness said 6 to 8 percent of Acuvue wearers actually redeem their rebate. Most of that money is never claimed by anyone.
We wrote the whole thing up, including how to claim and why claims get rejected, on our rebates page. It applies whether you buy from us or not.
You do not have to drive here to reorder
This is the part people assume works against us, and it does not.
Buying from your prescriber sounds like it means a trip to Aventura every few months. It does not. We use MARLO, Alcon’s direct-to-patient ordering platform. You scan our code once when you are here, we load your prescription, and after that you reorder from your phone and it ships to your door — same as ordering from a website.
Three things follow from that, and together they are the whole argument on this page:
- It is as convenient as the websites. Reorder in under a minute, delivered to you. There is no meaningful convenience gap left to trade away.
- You stay rebate-eligible. The purchase runs through the practice that prescribed the lenses, which is exactly what the manufacturers require. In our experience our patients claim the Alcon rebate on MARLO orders without trouble — though as with any rebate, check the current terms before you buy, because they change every cycle.
- It is not Alcon-only. We are on the tier that lets us supply other manufacturers too, so if you are in Acuvue, Biofinity, MyDay or Bausch + Lomb, we can ship you what you are actually prescribed. We are not going to switch you to an Alcon lens because it is easier for us — a lens is fitted to your cornea, not to our supplier list.
That last point matters more than it sounds. Substituting a different brand than the one prescribed is the exact conduct the FTC fined one online retailer $3.5 million for, and we wrote about it. Base curve and diameter are fitted to your eye. A lens with the right power and the wrong curve can sit too tight and starve the cornea of oxygen.
What we will actually do
- Tell you which rebate is running on your lens before you commit, and what it is worth this quarter.
- Give you the paperwork completed correctly — the exam receipt, the lens receipt, and the box panels, which is what most rejected claims are missing.
- Fit you properly. A contact lens prescription is not just a power. Base curve, diameter and material are chosen for your cornea, and a lens with the right power and the wrong curve can sit too tight and starve the eye of oxygen.
- Give you your prescription. Free, in your hand, whether or not you buy from us. That is your right under the FTC Contact Lens Rule and we are not going to make you ask twice.
When you should not buy from us
We would rather say this than have you find out later.
If you are not in Florida, we cannot help you. Dr. Bollar is licensed in Florida and contact lenses are a prescription medical device. Use our price index and retailer rankings instead — they are written without any reference to us.
If you buy three months at a time, the rebate argument mostly disappears. Most rebates require an annual supply, which is exactly why J&J found only around 20 percent of wearers even qualify. Buy in quarters and you should shop on price alone.
If you are a Costco member, check them. The one Costco price we were able to verify was the cheapest we found anywhere, and we say so on the Costco review even though it costs us.
Style Site Optical
An independent optical in Aventura since 1973. Dr. Teresita Bollar is a Florida Certified Optometrist, license OPC4426, practising here since 2009 — her full credentials are here, including the registry links to verify them yourself.
19013 Biscayne Blvd, Aventura, FL 33180
(305) 727-3937
Monday to Friday 9:00am–5:00pm · Saturday 9:00am–2:00pm · Sunday closed
Se habla español.
We fit the things this site writes about: torics, multifocals, sclerals, and myopia control lenses for children.
Why we bothered to separate the two
Nearly every large contact lens website is owned by a company that sells contact lenses, and it never says so plainly. We thought the more useful thing was to keep the review site genuinely independent and put the commercial offer on one clearly marked page.
That is why our retailer ranking puts Costco first even though Costco pays us nothing and competes with us. If the reviews only ever pointed at us, they would be worth nothing to you, and you would work that out quickly.
Reviewed by Dr. Teresita Bollar, OD. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and no lens should be worn without a current prescription and a proper fitting. Rebate terms recorded 24 August 2026 and change frequently.