Just priced the Optilabs at £179, reasonable for a non insert sports design prescription transition lens pair of glasses.
You’ll get the same at Ciliary Blue for £100 less (depending n he cost of the frames you send to them). Personally, I bought a pair of £15 sunglasses with a frame shape I liked, had them glazed for about £60 with Transitions lenses.
The technology and research that goes into an Oakley lens (as well as the materials used) are very different to lenses in lower costed glasses. Its the same old you get what you pay for thing
This is of course true. I suppose it’s a question of how good do you need the lenses to be? In a nice weak internet analogy, Transitions lenses (such that you get at Optilabs or CB) are the Ford option; perfectly good, do the job very well at a reasonable cost. Oakleys are more, I dunno, Aston Martin; do the job exceptionally well, but at a much higher cost. You have to ask yourself how good a lens you actually need, and therefore are prepared to pay for.