Opticians & Glasses
 

Ok so my glasses are on the brink, the nose pad has fallen off and the frame is about to snap, impressed I am not as they are not even two years old...I shouldn't have gone to Specsavers...

Firsty are glasses and check-ups expensive here? How much is it likely to cost me?

I'm considering going to Wal-mart Vision as I'm guessing they may be a little cheaper, I don't have alot of money to spend at the minute unfortunately. Does anyone have any experience of using them?

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We used Vogue. Eye exams were $70. Specs were from around $120 not including lens treatments like anti-glare, anti-scratch...cheaper pair was free.

It's very much like I remember of the UK with seemingly every optician offering a free pair.

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Shades of NHS 1950s specs. :)

I think a more realistic price is $200 or so for the frames, then the lenses, ranging from not much at all to about the same again (for lightweights, bifocals, that sort of thing).

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what about Costco??

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we get our glasses at costco,no problems at all, ......so far..

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:rofl::rofl:

Not at all. The cheaper ones were certainly narrower than I like, but narrow seems to be quite fashionable.

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Got mine from Lenscrafters, $440 with 50% off the lenses...........good job most of it was paid for by my medical plan :thumbup:

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It all depends on the prescription of course. I found my complicated prescription in a pair of inexpensive frames cost the same as in England, $850. I can't say I was impressed by the place I went to and won't go there again.

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Thanks for the replies.

I don't need my prescription changed and my lenses are fine it's just the frame that is fecked. I dunno what they will be able to do about that, I don't really wanna have to pay for new lenses and an eye test when I don't actually need that part.

Walmart Vision is open until 9pm tommorrow so I'm gonna call in and see what they can do for me. I've got about $200 to spend not that I even wanna spend that much but hey ho it's gotta be done. :frown:

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Honestly, try Costco.

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If you have a health insurance policy find out if you are covered - we are covered for up to $50 for an eye exam and $250 towards glasses every 2 years. :)

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yes, I can really recommend Costco after what happened to my a few weeks back, because they saved me around 500 bucks...:thumbup:

In May, I had my first encounter with an optometrist in Canada and ended up with a prescription for multi-focal lenses (I must be getting old). After the eye exam was finished and on my way to the cashier, I was ushered towards the shop on the premises (owned by the optometrist) before I even had a prescription in my hands. The price they gave me was somewhere around 120$ for the frame (which was the cheapest) and 200-250$ for each lens.. I declined and asked for the prescription, which they reluctantly printed out.
I then went to Costco and after studying the prescription the optician there said... "save your money and don't buy these glasses at all...you don't need them... " He suggested to me to use my old glasses and wait for my eye sight to become worse before getting new glasses.
I was quite surprised to say the least.

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I'm gonna try Walmart later and see and if no joy I'll try Costco.

I don't really have a health insurance policy as such, I have a working holiday insurance policy, I checked the terms lastnight and it states it doesn't cover contact lenses, sunglasses or prescription sunglasses, they don't mention normal prescription glasses. I might email them and find out if they do cover them but I highly doubt it.

Thank god I brought some contact lenses with me as I can see nothing without glasses! :(

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Good luck, i'm sure you'll get it sorted out.........:thumbup:

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I'm a little happier now, Walmart saved the day! :lol:

They were able to find a nice pair of frames to fit my old lenses into and the best part of it was they only cost $49, all sorted within 20 minutes! :)