Free eye test at Dolland and Aitchison

Tigger_2-3

Please forgive me if I am being stupid, but I just clicked on the link for the free eye test and it states that the eye test is half price at £12.50 not free

heatherw_01

This link works

http://www.danda.co.uk/opticians/promotions/detail.asp?campaign=20

Tigger_2-3

Thanks Heatherw
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AMILLIONDOLLARS

I did post on this website that in the February's issue of Gardeners' World there was a D&A voucher for a free eye test, plus £50.00 off a pair of glasses if they cost £199. If your quick you might just get a copy!!!

MORPH3US

Many thanks to the people who finally managed to post links to the FREE eye test, not the half price one!

M

tomartomartini

free eye test for cheep and good specs this is the best i have found.

http://www.spex4less.com...any advances on this .

quoia

Anyone who bought REAL PEOPLE magazine ISSUE 2 (on sale 7 to 14 days ago for 30p - half price) can have a FREE D&A eye test using the coupon on page 3.

Valid until 31/3/06 - normal cost £20

xgsbig_al

Does anyone know a good optician where i can get a free contact lens check without having to pay, enabling me to buy lenses off the internet without the fear i might be really damaging the eye or wearing the wrong prescription?

Most of the places i have tried have said that would charge me.

JohnG

My wife needed to check her eye sight due to frequent migraines. Normally we both go to Specsavers but due to one or two concerns with them of late, thought we would try somewhere else for a change and perhaps may get a more accurate prescription?

Seeing the free eye test offer thought lets go with D&A. Unfortunately we could only find a half price offer but still thought we may as well go with them.

Anyway, sure enough my wife needed a change of lense so went through the process of ordering a new pair of glasses straight away. Many frames were apparently reduced and in the end a fairly basic £50 set was selected to keep the overall cost down.

My wife stayed to finalise the order so I was horrified to hear later what the final bill came to, £237.00 !! Admittadly they were varifocals but my word this seemed very high, especially having chosen a relatively cheap pair of frames.

We later rechecked the breakdown of the price and sure enough this price was correct - the lenses were simply extremely expensive.

In hindsight (excuse the pun) we should have shopped around for glasses but unfortunately we have this tendency to be loyal and I guess, felt a kind of obligated to buy the glasses through them - not next time that's for sure!

What's annoying as much as anything is the lack of information relating to lense pricing, we simply trusted that they would be a fair price, in future we will want to know in advance of handing over the plastic.

Incidently, my wife has got to take her glasses back as they've got a scratch down the middle (Not her doing I must add).

Maybe Specsavers arn't so bad after all, certainly found they're customer service to be much better and I'm sure they have a clearer pricing policy than that of D&A (Reading, Berks).

In the end we saved £10 on an eye test but can't help feeling we have been duped into paying much more.

Cheers
John G

JohnG

Further to my previous msg, my wife (Clare) went back to D&A with her scratched glasses and found they were very disbelieving that the (Vertical)scratch could possibly of been there when they left the shop. It was obviously Clare's word against theirs but we are absolutely positive this must have been there originally. Clare had only worn them one day as they were too uncomfortable to wear. What reinforced this opinion was that D&A confirmed the scratch was on the inside of the lense, once they had located it. Of course there is no scratch protection on the inside, as they pointed out, but it seems extremeley unlikely that it could hv happened inadvertantly since picking them up.

To add insult to injury, the D&A staff member asked if they had previously explained how to clean the glasses? Clare's answer was an unsurprising "No" so the guy proceeded to explain that they had special cleaning fluid etc that should be used. Apparently the cloth they provide with the glasses case is only mean't to protect them inside the case and not for actual cleaning!? This strikes me as extremely odd to say the least and frankly a load of balloney but it made it quite clear who they thought was to blame.

Has anyone else been told about the use of these cloths? They ought to make it clearer if they have the potential to damage the glasses if they are used for cleaning?

Incidently Clare hadn't felt it necessary to clean them (they had done that when she went to pick them up) so again there is no way this was her doing.

Anyway, it seems D&A are grudgingly and reluctantly going to replace the offending lense but in the meantime we can categorically state that we will never ever use D&A again, even for a free examination. :mad:

Cheers
John