Boots Opticians-Less than transparent pricing?

terra_ferma

Victors_Bruvver wrote: »

This post came at an opportune time as this week my wife had an appointment at Boots for an eye test.

As she suspected her prescription had changed and as she was comfortable with the current frames just wanted the lenses replaced which carries an additional but small 're-glazing' charge.

Boots lenses would be 475.00 and for Zeiss, 505.00. She asked but no one at the branch or even later at their head office in Nottingham could tell us the name of manufacturer/supplier of 'their' lenses were.

This may be okay with a simple prescription but when it is complex and being charged almost 500 pounds wouldn't you want to know?

Tried and gave up trying to find out from who Tesco sourced their lenses and popped into a local independent optician for a price and guess what? Top of the range lenses manufactured by Nikon - 404 pounds!

Asda is great to buy just lenses, someone I know saved a lot of money on the thinnest lenses used by people with high prescriptions. She shopped around and found their price much lower.
I don't like their frames though, but the pricing is very transparent, I have a normal prescription and paid exactly what was described.

C_Mababejive

As promised, my bottle of armour etch arrived a couple of days ago. An hour ago i donned my safety specs and disposable gloves and spent about 20 mins simply painting the product onto both sides of my plastic lenses then rinse off and i am now looking through crystal clear specs again !!

Not,this product strips the anti scratch/reflective coating off lenses where it has worn or is patch.

It only works on plastic lenses,DO NOT use on glass lenses.