What would you do? Pay or not pay ...

peardrops_2

Update :

My son has arrived home from school with an invoice for the glasses. The lad has been without glasses for 3 months so they weren't in a hurry to replace them obviously.

The invoice is for £97.00 and they have just written on the bottom:

"half would be appreciated but we are willing to accept £25".

puddy

good god, even i try to spend less than that and i need various thinning and tints (dont often manage it though, specsavers are good but not that good)

euronorris

97 quid? What kind of glasses have they bought him?

On the assumption that he doesn't have any special needs, with regards to the glasses, I can't see why they've spent so much. I'm 28 and spent less than €40 on my last pair!

Does it state what type of frame it is, whether the lenses have been thinned, etc etc?

peardrops_2

I will check when I get home - I will type up exactly what the invoice says and let you all know.

Thank you everyone for your comments though - it really is appreciated.

pigpen

Cheeky blighters!!!!!!

I'd be telling them exactly where they could shove their invoice!!!

Or rather.. no.. actually, i'll not be paying anything.. NHS frames are free for children, the NHS voucher covers the cost of the lenses so they CHOSE to pay stupid amounts of money.. after leaving the poor child 3 months without them.. they get to pay the full lot!

Mine can't function without glasses!!! I always get them a second pair as spares.. usually just update the lenses in an old pair.. the optician puts them through as a repair so I have never paid for spares either!

Mojisola

peardrops wrote: »

My son has arrived home from school with an invoice for the glasses. The lad has been without glasses for 3 months so they weren't in a hurry to replace them obviously.

How on earth has he managed for three months without glasses if he really needs them?

melancholly

peardrops wrote: »

"half would be appreciated but we are willing to accept £25".

how very gracious of them!!

so no note, just a demand of payment? rude, plain rude and incredibly badly handled by them.

pulliptears

As I said previously, has he managed without? Or did he get them fixed and has broken them again?

Either way, they are taking you for a mug. I'd send a polite note back thanking them for the invoice but declining to pay as there is no proof your son caused the latest damage.

vax2002

I think they are trying it on here, £50 is the voucher price allowed for NHS glasses, Specsaver will issue a receipt for the voucher price, paying money to stop your child getting bullied is not a good idea, give in and they will be back for more.
The incident was an accident, I would Just Ignore Them and see the head about the demanding money with menaces bullying by the older child, demand it stops and ask the school for a written plan to how it proposes to stop it.
ill give you and the other posters some advice, if you give in to such things in life, you had better be prepared to have nothing, because they will come thick and fast and take everything you have until you learn to fight back, this is real life, its tough and its dirty and only the strong survive.

Buttonmoons

*cough choke splutter* £97 for glasses? That is presumably with the NHS discount too, and 3 months later on? What's he wearing? Gok wan supremios?

I'd tell them to jog on.