Grossly overpriced products or services

[vickster]

Even better, walk out with your prescription and order on line. Save hundreds.

Just hope they get the prescription right. 🙄
Last pair of glasses I ordered online (Rayban frame sunnies), the well known online retailer screwed up the prescription. They took about 6 weeks to arrive in the first place, then I realised I couldn't actually see clearly, so I had to send them back (nerve wracking as they didn't offer anything other than untracked/uninsured RM for £160 pair of specs), it took about a month to process the return and confirm there was an issue and then about another 2 or 3 weeks to send the replacement. All in all about 3 months and the summer was almost over!!!

I've worked out with my prescription with prism (which the online retailers add about £50 for), buying online doesn't end up much cheaper than Specsavers if I want a nice frame. A lottery as obviously you can try them on (yes some offer trials but still ends up taking far longer and even costs money for delivery and returns). I'm probably just too fussy about what I wear on my nose 16 hours a day to faff around to save what ends up being about £20!

 

[Drago]

The last high street opticians I used locked mine up. Id ordered varis and they did the close up part but hadn't done the distance bit. The only good news is that being a bricks and mortar establishment meant I could sort it out mano a mano.

The one time I used an online manufacturer they were fine, but it was a PITA process to navigate and at the end wasn't sufficiently less expensive than Specsaders to justify the hassle.

 

[Alex321]

Even better, walk out with your prescription and order on line. Save hundreds.

How do you do that then?

I've never aid £100 for a pair of glasses - I only ever buy the cheapest they have available, since they are only a backup for my contact lenses.

And Specsavers made no attempt at all to upsell the last time.

 

[All uphill]

How do you do that then?

I've never aid £100 for a pair of glasses - I only ever buy the cheapest they have available, since they are only a backup for my contact lenses.

And Specsavers made no attempt at all to upsell the last time.

Sigh.

I need to buy glasses annually. For the last pair Specsavers wanted £280. Varifocals, thin lenses, frame, coating yada yada yada.

Direct Sight cost £120.

Multiply that by 5 years.

 

[Oldhippy]

I got quoted 2k to connect a water heater snd hob to gas because it was a boat. I found a better way.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I just received a pair of varifocal titanium glasses, top spec lenses with enhanced field of vision, coatings, little wipers for the wet*, with 3 different magnetic clip on sunglass lenses in different tints, incl 2 polarising lenses. I paid £134 and they came from Singapore in a week. The supplier was hugely responsive (I had to change my PD a day later because I mis-entered it) and they are simply super. Other people make different choices, and have different preferences.

*Well cloths

 

[Adam4868]

Just bought a pair of glasses online with my prescription for 20 quid....fair enough they were the cheapest frames,but my partner paid 40 for some fancy sunglasses with her prescription.I try to use my local optician when I can but for a spare pair I always buy online.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Eye test due in December. Although I've been really pleased with my Photo reactive varifocals I feel I need more clarity so have decided to go for a single vision lens and ask the optician him / herself if there's much advantage in " extra thin " lenses ( mine are quite thin anyway ), and if there's a particular coating / tint to enhance acuity for my particular prescription.

 

[Alex321]

Sigh.

I need to buy glasses annually. For the last pair Specsavers wanted £280. Varifocals, thin lenses, frame, coating yada yada yada.

Direct Sight cost £120.

Multiply that by 5 years.

Not all of us need that sort of expensive eyewear. Nor need new ones annually.

It is doubtful very many of us pay enough to save hundreds by going elsewhere, though you obviously do.