Auld Yin

And how are people in straitened circumstances going to find $50 for the Costco membership or the bus/train fare to Buffalo to go to Target? I now know why your eyeglasses cost so much. They are rose-tinted because that's obviously how you see the world. So you think that people who shop in Walmart are in the gutter? Get real. Those in poverty are not below you. I would posit that from this post and many others that they are quite entitled to look down their noses at you. You are beyond redemption.

dbd33

I don't say that those with whom I share penury are beneath me. I say that people who shop at Walmart are beneath me. I say that people who shop at Walmart are either shockingly ignorant or have the morals of lawyers. I say that people who shop at Walmart deserve their flabby bodies and pasty complexions. I think their willingness to trample the staff literally to death and then to continue snatching the tat made by the bleeding fingers of child labourers makes them repellent, no better than child molestors.

Do you have a Sam's Club card? Do you think poverty justifies any sort of action, is it reasonable for example to sell one's mother or one's children into prostitution because one is poor? I say not, I say that we should struggle to maintain some minimum moral standard even in hard times. I say that shopping at Walmart falls below that minimum standard.

Auld Yin

Well you just insulted hundreds of millions of people in the world including many who frequent this website. And you believe that Costco and Target don't sell tat made in third world countries by child labour? You are living in a dream world and have no understanding, whatsoever, of poverty. Everyone is aware of the terrible conditions existing in many Asian countries and nobody of moral character could but condemn it. Your priveleged life may allow you to not purchase goods made in Asia but for most people around the world that's not an option. And yes, I do have a Sam's Card and yes, I have shopped in Walmart, so I suppose that makes me beneath you, ignorant &/or immoral, flabby and pasty, willing to trample people to death for tat and a potential child molestor. I'm off to cut my wrists as are, I'm sure, many other members of this website.
I apologise to other readers of this site. The thread has gone much too far away from the original post and that is wrong. I am unsubscribing to this thread.

dbd33

Indeed, Pickering's answer to Sir Jimmy Saville. Also a bit humourless, I reckon.

Elaine B.

DBD I never new you had such power over members of this forum. Do you do Voodoo?

BristolUK

I remember in a previous thread that someone did this sort of thing from a US website. Some measurement was needed as well as the prescription. The cost could be as little as $15 with coatings adding another $30.

But a good fit of the frames sounded a bit hit and miss.

I paid £240 in Bristol...ultra thin lenses, anti-glare, anti-scratch...the works.

An Eye exam here for my wife last year was $70. Her complete price was around $500 - roughly similar to mine on the exchange rate then, for all the same treatments. Except her 'thin' was nowhere near as 'thin' as mine. OTOH hers were bifocal and included prescription sunglasses.

bodgerx

I try the frames I want out at the opticians. A bit cheeky, but hey. I've never had a problem with this, most frames fit me. I think it helps if you get a decent quality frame. The Bolle's are good. I've tried the cheapy Glasses DIrect frames and they were surprisingly good.

I'd never go back to paying optician's inflated prices.

startwin

I may regret this, but..... this is probably the one time in my life that I will come to dbd33's defence. I think his posting has been taken out context and I understand what he was trying to say. Apart from the Walmart bit. I personally wouldn't shop at Walmart if they were the last store open on principle, but there are millions who choose to because of limited income.

fledermaus

He's got the chickens

nooka

I don't think there is much point in comparing costs of glasses because it's never possible to compare like with like. I am very short sighted and wear my glasses all the time. I would never get a prescription from an online site, because if it was even a little off I would get terrible headaches, so for me it would be a false economy. But if you only need them for a little long sight, and wear them as little as possible, then cheap is obviously good.

I buy a new pair of glasses about every three years, and they basically live on my face, except when I have a shower, or am asleep. So they need to be perfect, and nice frames are also not something I would sacrifice. I also have to have the highest thinned lenses, because otherwise my left lens is so thick, my glasses always slip to one side. In the UK I could quite easily spend £500. I hope I will be able to get my Nikon lenses here, otherwise I will have to plan an optician visit when I visit home. Glasses are a high expenditure in our household, as my husband also has a complicated prescription, and my son needs new lenses every six months or so.

dbd33

I never have but I think I might give it a go now.

Abracadabra!

Damn, my drink's disappeared.

dbd33

Thank you. I confess to getting carried away with the Walmart thing, I was hoping brianscottie would improve on calling me "a pimple on the arse of society" or whatever that gem was.

fledermaus

Good grief, so has mine. That's powerful voodoo chicken shit you have there.

Novocastrian

Good God, man! Next you'll be telling us the rims are metric!!

dbd33

Curious that, Swedish tyres on German rims, sold in Canada; fifteen inch rims. I nearly had Italian alloys for the same price but they only had sixteen inch ones. Volkswagens, it seems, come with some bits in metric and some not.

After the service the lady there looked at the mechanic's notes which said "1/8 left", turning to me she said, you've 3mm on your pads, we'll get them next time. Kind of her to translate. Misguided, but kind.