eric B.
Terrible customer service experience
Terrible customer service experience. I went to my doctor’s office and received a brand-new contact lens prescription just a couple of days ago. I placed an order with 1-800 Contacts, and they canceled it claiming my prescription wasn’t valid. They said they contacted my doctor’s office and were told the script was invalid but the prescription is literally in my hand and clearly shows it was just issued. I tried replying to their email to explain, but the message bounced back as “unavailable.” Now they’re sending me emails telling me I need to call my doctor and fix the problem myself. That’s ridiculous. If they have the prescription and need verification, they should be the ones contacting the doctor’s office again. Instead they canceled the order and pushed the work onto the customer. Not a good experience. I’ll be taking my business elsewhere
Response from 1-800 ContactsMar 23, 2026
We are so sorry to hear about the trouble you experienced with your order. It is not the experience we want you to have. We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. We'd love to look into your situation to review our verification process and email system to see where we fell short. Please reach out to us at [email protected] and we can look into that further and turn this experience around.




