Rip Off Britain - Spectacles

Nilrem

roddydogs wrote: »

Who on earth would want to use a 2yr old plus prescription?

Someone who didn't think their eyes were worth the small fee to get a regular test done...
It amazes me that people think that the eye test fee isn't worth it, when it can save your eyesight, let alone making your life more comfortable and you safe to drive.

I get my eyes tested as regular as clockwork at intervals of no more than 2 years, possibly because I value my eyesight, possibly because I need glasses to drive, possibly because various of my family members have major eye issues, and possibly because I've seen the end results of people ignoring common sense regular health checks.

Arg

Eye testing and buying glasses are two seperate subjects. We all know that they're a business but that doesn't mean we should be subsidising them through high markups.

macygrey

Does anyone know if I can get a refund on varifocal glasses which I can read through? I have spent £170, including an upgrade on the lenses but I still cannot read through one eye. The optician says I cannot have a refund but have to buy reading glasses to the value of £170. I don't need any reading glassses. Does anyone have any advice please?????

roddydogs

macygrey wrote: »

Does anyone know if I can get a refund on varifocal glasses which I can read through? I have spent £170, including an upgrade on the lenses but I still cannot read through one eye. The optician says I cannot have a refund but have to buy reading glasses to the value of £170. I don't need any reading glassses. Does anyone have any advice please?????

First name the optician, i assume your not blind in one eye.

Oldbiggles

tidus wrote: »

Hey there Ned!

Are you certain about that? I'm normally pretty good on rules and regs... but I'll admit my ignorance if you're certain.

There seems to be some confusion about the 2 year prescription rule.
As I understand it, the rule is that you are only permitted one ‘subsidized’
NHS eye test every 2 years. That is why the optician always asked ‘when you had your last eye examination’.
But even after all the protestations by opticians posting here, I still say specs cost far too much. And as for so called designer frames… #&!@~*%+!, (or words to that effect). Have you noticed that there are always more of these designed frames on the racks than any other cheaper brands???



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nedmundo

Oldbiggles wrote: »

There seems to be some confusion about the 2 year prescription rule.
As I understand it, the rule is that you are only permitted one ‘subsidized’
NHS eye test every 2 years. That is why the optician always asked ‘when you had your last eye examination’.
But even after all the protestations by opticians posting here, I still say specs cost far too much. And as for so called designer frames… #&!@~*%+!, (or words to that effect). Have you noticed that there are always more of these designed frames on the racks than any other cheaper brands???



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2 separate issues OB. It doesn't matter if it is an NHS or private patient, the prescription still needs to be less tha 2 years old.

What you're muddling it up with is the NHS protocol where a normal healthy adult is only entitled to an NHS eye exam every 2 years, unless there is good clinical justification to do one sooner. This was put in place to cut out the situation where NHS patients could have a free eye test every week if they felt like it, funded by the good old taxpayer.

nedmundo

More Designers are stocked because that is what more of society expects. No other reason.

Having said that, most are 'brands' rather than true designer.

Oldbiggles

nedmundo wrote: »

2 separate issues OB. It doesn't matter if it is an NHS or private patient, the prescription still needs to be less tha 2 years old.

What you're muddling it up with is the NHS protocol where a normal healthy adult is only entitled to an NHS eye exam every 2 years, unless there is good clinical justification to do one sooner. This was put in place to cut out the situation where NHS patients could have a free eye test every week if they felt like it, funded by the good old taxpayer.

If you think I’ve muddied the waters, as it were, it’s because I read this posted by laz123 (see #67)

And another thing that annoys me is this imposed two year eye test limitation. You can't get a pair of specs if the prescription is older than two years.

But it's for your own good because you may have something wrong which will only be picked up by regular eye tests.

I don't have medical tests every two years, so the choice should be mine, not theirs


Did I misread what laz123 was trying to say?

wallbash

Some of our patients used to have very complex prescriptions wanted the very best so then we'd source our lenses from carl zeiss et al.

Zeiss wearer here . My sight is priceless , so I pay the bill gladly and thank the optician.

Rest of you can go down the budget route , but don't expect me to join you.

RealPolitik

If you're not bright enough to engage in intelligent discussion, always good to start name calling