Goodbye Dollond & Aitchison

geri1965_2

I went to D&A yesterday - £380 for a pair of glasses! Have paid half, and found 20% off voucher in M&S magazine, so that will save me £76. :cool:

Running_Horse

SGE1 wrote: »

and the length of the arms

The side length is pre-fitting and will almost certainly have to be adjusted by someone with experience. Unless you want your glasses to fall off or leave painful red marks behind your ears.

SGE1

Running_Horse wrote: »

The side length is pre-fitting and will almost certainly have to be adjusted by someone with experience. Unless you want your glasses to fall off or leave painful red marks behind your ears.

As I said, I've ordered 2 pairs online - neither needed any adjustments that I couldn't do myself.

Lady_K

beaujolais-nouveau wrote: »

I like your contributions to this forum, PasturesNew, so I've logged on just to reply on this.

The best argument for having your eyes tested is retinitis pigmentosa (RP). RP can be detected by an eye test in the very earliest stages and then (I understand) treated with eye drops. However, by the time you notice that your sight is deteriorating due to RP (which will be about 10 years after it actually started deteriorating) it is impossible to save your sight, and you will go blind.

http://www.brps.org.uk/index.php?tln=aboutrp

Retinitis pigmentosa is a hereditory condition that has no cure, it can progress at different rates in everyone. Some go blind when babies or anytime of life. Eye drops don't cure that at all.

PasturesNew

I would say glaucoma is a good reason among many reasons to have regular check ups its crazy not to think you need to have them. They also can uncover other conditions such as diabetes and brain tumours in some cases.

Dont ever put a price on your eyesight its a gift that some people have never had

Running_Horse

Worth a read:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2269827.ece

Kez100

PasturesNew wrote: »

Call me tight, but I've never had my eyes tested.

Opticians were always expensive and while I could see OK I didn't see the point.

Tesco often (always?) have free tests. Their glasses are not expensive either.

Do you drive?

On the topic of D and A if they are that expensive I'm not surprised they have problem.

I paid just £160 for two pairs of glasses from Tesco from their most expensive desugner range. Both had special thin lenses and reflective coatings added. One also had sunglass lenses.

I then broke my main pair - my fault completely - so went back and couldn't afford the same again. This time I paid £80 for two pairs (get the second free) and they gave me the thin lenses for free because I had only had my other glasses such a short time. I thought that a kind goodwill gesture as it was not their problem they broke.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

D&A took the usual 80s look on retail, they were a very short sighted outfit. Todays profit was all that mattered to them, they were blinded by the colour of money & businesses that continue with this tunnel vision in the current decade will become miopic.