GUNNAR OptiksReviews of gunnar.com

Gunnar's marketing material states how much light is blocked at the 450nm wavelength. While this is very useful information, it is only telling you the lens performance for a single wavelength. I recommend sticking with manufacturers that publish the performance of their lens over the entire visible spectrum, not just a single wavelength. Note that the blue light spectrum runs from 380nm to 500nm wavelengths. Current studies are showing that any blue light from 400 to 450nm can cause retina damage. Blue light from the entire blue spectrum (380nm to 500nm) is shown to effect sleep quality (blue light is good in the morning, bad at night), cognitive functions (tied to sleep quality) and mood (blue light helps prevent Seasonal Affective Disorder). Thus it is critical to understand how your lens performs over the entire blue light spectrum, not just at a single wavelength I reached out to Gunnar asking for their light transmittance data (a graph that shows how much light the lens blocks/passes over the entire visible spectrum) for their Amber Max BLPF 98 lens. They did respond promptly, but sent information for their Amber BLPF 65 lens. I wrote back thanking them for the info, but pointed out that I was asking about the Amber Max BLPF 98 lens. They wrote back saying they did not have that data for the Amber Max BLPF 98 lens. Given that blue light protection is important for critical health reasons I suggest sticking with manufacturers that test their lens over the full visible light spectrum and publicly publish the results. Several of Gunnar’s competitors openly publish the light transmittance graph for their lens on their websites

I’m extremely disappointed with my experience from Gunnar optiks. I made a request to have my package shipped to a different address than my billing and heard no reply from the customer service department after this request was made. This carelessness and inability to help your customers has caused the package to be stollen.

I finally get my GUNNAR glasses in the mail only to find out 1 my cleaning spray bottle is dented pretty deep and 2 my glasses came with close to a quarter inch crack in the lens. This tells me these items aren’t handled with care. Paying about $100 dollars for glasses you would want them to be crack free but now I have an issue that can become way worse down the road.

I bought amber-react lens and received amber

Overall a bad experience. I found the pricing was not very clear since I live in Canada. First, there was a promotion going on for exactly my set of glasses but it was not well-placed on the website and there was no prompt when I was at check out. I only saw the promotion after my order was processed and confirmed. So that is not great - I missed out on the promotion. Then, more significantly, I was surprised to see that I would be paying far more than I thought I would be. The shipping prices (to Canada) are exorbitant for the small and light weight package that one set of glasses takes, especially when considering duty charges on top of that. When I e-mailed customer service to complain I had to try three times, and 2 days after my third attempt I finally got a response which said there is nothing they can do other than to return the glasses and I would get a refund, except for the $30.00 USD in shipping, so that would be thrown away money. I don't even want the glasses now. I tried the glasses on and there is a slight blur. Not terrible but still perceptible. I tried cleaning them and there is no scuffing but I still find them to create a slight reduction in acuity. So having paid too much for them, now I likely won't even be using them.

Tried to register my product for warranty and I still have no confirmation that my product has been registered. I have a feeling that if anything does happen I won’t be covered.

I adjusted my shipping address very shortly after submitting the order. The support person confirmed that the address had been updated before it was shipped. Found out it was NOT updated and did not get delivered after paying priority shipping. I ordered them on Amazon and they will be delivered tomorrow. I will be returning these. I would recommend your glasses but not your support. I will be telling people to only order your glasses on Amazon.

Item was never delivered, 2 days so far with no response from customer support