Have you ever walked into an outlet like OPSM, Specsavers, Bailey Nelson, or Laubman & Pank for an eye test and left feeling like you’d been gently pressured into spending $500 on a pair of glasses?
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[B]osses impose onto optometrists a variety of targets – whether its “converting” eye tests into sales or increasing rates of certain types of tests.
This type of pressure is reportedly causing many optometrists “significant moral distress” and some are starting to fight back.
I always order glasses online for $20… I only need the eye test in person. Surprised more people don’t do it
Where from? I looked at Zenni for mums and they were going to be $500aud. Multifocal transitions. Specsavers are $700.
I’m super confused as to how your glasses were this much. Unless you chose every option possible, chose the most expensive frame, lense type , etc, typically zenni is the place to go. I got mine for like $20 for the second pair, and I want to say it was like 50 with poly carb on the first. This doesn’t sound right at all that you paid so much.
Multifocal, polarised & transition. It came out to $294USD, which is just shy of $500AUD.
That’s crazy. Prob like $600 from any luxottica based eye place around here. Mine were always 300 plus
As mentioned above, they’re $700AUD from the local shop (specsavers), and for a $200 discount mum’s not interested in international internet ordered spectacles in case there’s any issue.
Zenni, actually. I just got the basic $5 frames with the basic prescription
Yeah before I got Lasik I would always buy my glasses overseas (where I lived at the time), despite usually getting the tests done here. It was much cheaper that way.
How did lasik go? Doing well? Would you recommend it?
Yeah it went really well for me. It was a strange experience at first, not having glasses. I kept reflexively wanting to push them back up my nose, for weeks. And it took nearly a year before I could eat hot food without reflexively wanting to take off my glasses to avoid them fogging up. But I’m nearly 8 years on now and am so glad I don’t have to wear them anymore, especially during exercise.
I got it done in Vietnam, where the total cost was half of what the per-eye cost would have been in Australia. That was at an expensive by local standards place, which caters mainly to wealthy expats.
Awesome! I’m glad it worked out for you.
I got my last eye exam in vietnam… and orders the glasses to be delivered from Shenzhen. small world!