ABCDiamond

Rodenstock R4660 B

UK £203.95
http://www.smartbuyglasses.co.uk/des...0-B-31595.html

AUS $361.95
http://www.visiondirect.com.au/desig...0-B-31595.html

Ahh, but I see you compared Australia against the US... oops

Can't find this one in the USA, but here is Canada...

C$293.95
http://www.smartbuyglasses.ca/design...0-B-31595.html

All these sites are almost identical, must be the same company.

Wol

ABCD as always I am impressed by your Googlings but the Rodenstock frames you show are not the same and in any case I was talking about the lenses as comparison.

The Australian lenses alone cost well over twice what the frame and lenses together in the US.

ABCDiamond

Not the same as yours maybe, but then we don't know what yours were, but the prices of those three frames that I checked were all for identical frames, same picture, same model number etc, for real comparison purposes.

So now we need some lens details to compare for a real price comparison

ozzieeagle

I checked this out quite throughly before my last trip back to the UK. I have special lenses as well.... highest density plastic, multifocals... AFAIK you can only get the top lenses from one source in Japan. Hence the prices work out the same... except you get rebates in Aus from your Health Insurance and also in my case, my employer.

I phone a couple of places with my script in the UK before I left, and they came out at roughly the same price. I tried to match the frames also. Could be different now with the exchange rate.

Thing is you can easily go back to your opticians here if there is a problem.

evishalarora

OMG - GBP 400, AUD 800

Thats really shocking.

In India, its way less. A good branded frame would cost you between 50$-100$. Eye testing is almost free, but If you get it done from a very reputed hospital it will cost you around 5$-10$. then about glasses branded glass come way with in the range of 50$ so all in 105-155$.

One more thing, If you are not a brand lover, you will get all of above within 25-40$

Regards,
Vishal Arora

ozzieeagle

I'd like to see anyone get multi focal 1.76 Plastic Double Aspheric Lenses for less than 600 Aud. Only Supplier that I know of is Seiko of Japan.

ABCDiamond

How do the average wages compare in India to the difference between the branded glasses ?

Non brand name ones here cost a lot less too

Wol

The point is that the Australian LENSES cost several times what the identical lenses AND frames cost in the USA. Allow a bit for the two year between the costs for inflation and it's still an enormous difference - even not taking into account the time the Australian ones took and the fact they had to be made twice because they made slapdash measurements.

ABCDiamond

Which optician was that one ? I assume it doesn't apply to all Opticians ?

How do average lenses compare in price as opposed to those Rodenstock ones ?

ozhopeful

you're not just paying for the product, you're paying for the service.

as previously posted if you have to return to have them remade, the prescription was wrong/the fitting was poor but you're happy because you paid less for them then that's fine.

when you pay what you consider over the odds for your glasses, you should be getting more personal time with the optometrist/dispenser and the peace of mind that if something is wrong that it will be sorted with a minimum of fuss

you get what you pay for

Wol

>>you get what you pay for<<

Unfortunately - as in my case above - increasingly this doesn't apply, especially in my experience in Australia.

Some of the worst service and delivery that I have had here has been the most expensive. It's all to easy for new arrivals to be conned even by "reputable" firms.

hevs

I have astigmatism and have single lense glasses. Check up was bulk billed and the glasses, with night vision lense thing cost $100 as they were half price. I don't have private health and I'm not bothered about advertising a brand on the arm of my specs so they weren't stupidly expensive.

4500 Times

I use Goggles4u......i get my eyes tested and get a copy of my prescription, then go online and choose your frames etc...easy

I have used them on numerous occasions and never had any issues, on average 2 pairs, delivered is around $80....not bad compared to what the shops are charging.

They go a good range of frames and sizes. Worth having a look...

dave99

Or you could just listen to someones experience of costs and take them at their word, rather than spending time googling trying to find ways to disprove them, which you can never do unless you were standing in the shop with them at the time it happened.

Its a bit like when people try to find statistics to prove someone wrong when everyone knows 90% of staistics are made up. I hate it when people do that to

ozzieeagle

I couldnt get my prescription online with anything over a 1.67 hi definition lens... I tried a lot of places as well.

Confused about Seiko, who make the 1.74 lenses, as they are a Japanese company... how can they sell Japanese made lenses cheaper in America ? Maybe people are buying Pentax ones which dont carry the double aspheric.


Frames are easy to get cheap.... Lenses impossible.



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