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That's what the ad said. Yeah, right. Try $408.

Let me guess, it would have been $149 if you bought glasses no one would actually wear? Or that price was only for frames, not lenses?

G. Keenan wrote:Let me guess, it would have been $149 if you bought glasses no one would actually wear? Or that price was only for frames, not lenses?

Actually it was 2 pair for $99, but 2 pair of no line bifocals (for us old folks) for $149. Let me try to remember how it all added up...

$40 extra for frames to upgrade
$40 for the exam.
$x for thin lenses, I have a very strong prescription and pretty much need them.
$35 on one pair for anti-glare.
$y because on pair were sunglasses.

And that came up to over $400. When I saw the price and picked myself off from the floor I was just going to put new lenses in old frames. Then I found out that was going to be $260, so I leave the store and take my prescription to For Eyes. The prices there were the same, except that charged a $50 surcharge for not using their frames. Eff that, so I went home and pouted for an hour before I finally caved in and went back to VisionWorks to get the two pair.

My employer dropped vision covereage a couple of years ago and it's a bite. I can't wear contacts anymore, and glasses are really expensive. My wife did Lasik but she claims it's wearing off, and she never did have 20/20 vision with it to begin with so I'm not looking to go down that route.

I guess I"m just stuck paying these high prices.

do you have "America's Best" there?

i got 2 pairs of glasses and my exam for $69

and it's that price every time..

omaha_red wrote:do you have "America's Best" there?

i got 2 pairs of glasses and my exam for $69

and it's that price every time..

Apparently we do, but here is "fine print"...

including single-vision basic plastic lenses, frames, including an eye exam - for as low as $69.95.

The no line bifocals are $100, which is $40 cheaper then where I got mine at. But like I said, turn one of those pair into no-line bifocal sunglasses, get the lightest lens possible, get the anti-glare and I'll bet you are over $350 easy for two pair. My prescription is -5.50 and -5.25 so I need to get the lighter lens or they will not fit in the frames I want and be too uncomfortable.

edit - another piece of fine print:

Further lens upgrades are available.

It's the lenses and not the frames that get me.

jim wrote:

omaha_red wrote:do you have "America's Best" there?

i got 2 pairs of glasses and my exam for $69

and it's that price every time..

Apparently we do, but here is "fine print"...

including single-vision basic plastic lenses, frames, including an eye exam - for as low as $69.95.

The no line bifocals are $100, which is $40 cheaper then where I got mine at. But like I said, turn one of those pair into no-line bifocal sunglasses, get the lightest lens possible, get the anti-glare and I'll bet you are over $350 easy for two pair. My prescription is -5.50 and -5.25 so I need to get the lighter lens or they will not fit in the frames I want and be too uncomfortable.

edit - another piece of fine print:

Further lens upgrades are available.

It's the lenses and not the frames that get me.

yeah.. i just get simple glasses for reading, computering and driving..
but you can't beat that deal for that..

jim wrote:That's what the ad said. Yeah, right. Try $408.

As a world class fisherman you should have known the bait was too pretty to be real and there would be a hook in it.

Spider John wrote:

jim wrote:That's what the ad said. Yeah, right. Try $408.

As a world class fisherman you should have known the bait was too pretty to be real and there would be a hook in it.

Yep, they sure did. I knew it was going to be higher then the price advertised, but not over double.

jim wrote:I can't wear contacts anymore, and glasses are really expensive. My wife did Lasik but she claims it's wearing off, and she never did have 20/20 vision with it to begin with so I'm not looking to go down that route.

I guess I"m just stuck paying these high prices.

I couldn't wear contacts once I needed bifocals or else I would have had the constant need for reading glasses. But a couple of years ago, the eye doc recommended "multi-focal" lenses, which give me both the distance and reading corrections I need. Almost like having my old eyes back. If that's your problem, you may want to check them out.


My wife had lasik also (or something like it - I think it was called PRK), and while it's fixed her distance vision (she was much worse than me), she can't read anything, and we have 30 pairs of reading glasses strewn all over the house and cars.

Radbird wrote:

jim wrote:I can't wear contacts anymore, and glasses are really expensive. My wife did Lasik but she claims it's wearing off, and she never did have 20/20 vision with it to begin with so I'm not looking to go down that route.

I guess I"m just stuck paying these high prices.

I couldn't wear contacts once I needed bifocals or else I would have had the constant need for reading glasses. But a couple of years ago, the eye doc recommended "multi-focal" lenses, which give me both the distance and reading corrections I need. Almost like having my old eyes back. If that's your problem, you may want to check them out.


My wife had lasik also (or something like it - I think it was called PRK), and while it's fixed her distance vision (she was much worse than me), she can't read anything, and we have 30 pairs of reading glasses strewn all over the house and cars.

I have some bump on the whilte of my eye that I can't remember the name of. It's common, caused by sun exposure, and completely benign. But your lens won't fit on your eye right and it will irritate the bejesus out of them.