Who should pay for accidental damage by child

alba7

pelirocco wrote: »

Varifocals are very expensive that's more or less what mine cost.......

I, too, have had really bad experiences at specsavers so I went to an independent opticians who was recommended to me. I don't take chances with my eyesight.

Mine cost £480 as well. I need superlite frames, due to a problem with the nerves in my face that means I can't have anything heavy resting on my nose. That meant I need very thin lenses as well (prescription of +4.75), I also need varifocals.

My only choices as such were the quality of the lenses. I could have gone for a cheap lens, but this is my first pair of varifocals and, since I work in a classroom, I need to be able to see without any distortion, so I went for zeiss lenses. I did get another pair of single vision glasses free though and I get free repairs on my glasses for their lifetime. I may have paid a lot, but I feel confident in my choices and I think that's what counts.

Georgiegirl256

jaylee3 wrote: »

Unbelievable!

A decent adequate pair of glasses does not cost £500-£600. Your post proves it is only fancy designer glasses that are silly prices.

There is no need whatsoever to spend silly amounts on glasses; you are choosing to pay this by getting extortionately priced, fancy, designer glasses, when you could just have non designer ones for probably less than half of the price of the designer ones.

Nobody has any right to say 'I had to pay £500 for my glasses,' when they chose to get a ridiculously overpriced showy designer pair! And sterling silver? Really?

If someone wants to pay those prices, then go ahead if you have money to burn, but don't come out and complain about the cost because you chose to get an over-priced designer pair. And if someone breaks them for you, you have only yourself to blame for paying silly money for fancy glasses, when a non designer pair would have been less than half price for the same quality.

Why £500? Varifocals are no more than £250 at Specsavers and Boots. I can only assume your husband and you had fancy designer frames too.

Seriously when someone says 'I had to pay £500 for mine,' and it turns out they are designer ones, it's just laughable; like, you did not have to get designer ones. That is like me saying I can barely afford to run my car as the monthly payments are so much, and then announcing I bought a porsche! It would be my own silly fault for showing off and buying an overpriced and fancy car!

Do you wear glasses yourself jaylee?

For the majority of people who wear glasses, they're on your face for at least a good 17-18 hours of the day, and for that reason alone, you want a pair that looks good. If you've got to wear them all the time, then it's worth paying extra if needs be so that you feel comfortable and confident in what you're wearing.

Yes, I agree with you that some cheaper pairs would do the job, and I say some for a reason. My Mam has to have her lenses thinned down, but even after being thinned down, at certain points in the lense it is still slightly thicker than others (due to an eye condition) and so the lense will only fit into certain frames, so that narrows down her choices considerably.

In the end up she went for a metal framed pair, non designer, and even they weren't cheap, and they were from Boots opticians.

My own frames (the old ones that I loved before I sat on them!) were £25, so yes I get your point that you don't have to spend a fortune (in some cases, ie, standard lenses), but the difference is, I was happy to choose them, because that was the style I wanted, chunky plastic frames. I didn't go for them because they were cheap, I went for them because they were the exact style and shape that I wanted. If they had been a lot more then I'd have still payed it as I want to feel comfortable in my choice of glasses and that they look good. I don't wear them all the time, but I so wear them quite abit out and about driving etc.

So yes, there's no need to spend a fortune in most cases, but if some people want to then that choice is theirs, and they are perfectly entitled to do so. As well as some people needing specialist lenses, they also need to suit a person. First and foremost obviously, they're there to correct your vision, but they are also part of your outfit, an extension of you and so if people want to pay hundreds, thousands even then that it totally up to them, if they can afford it then that's their choice is it not? And yes, if they get broken say beyond repair, then that person is perfectly entitled to charge the person who broke them exactly what they cost, because that's what they paid for them. It doesn't matter if something cost £5 or £500, that's their perogative to pay what they choose to.

You could apply that logic to anything really. A handbag does it's job of carrying stuff from a to b. A market stall one will do the same as a designer one, but why not get a designer one if you so choose? Your choice, your business, no one else's!

Pollycat

I think what people pay for spectacles is nobody's business but their own.
If they can afford it and wish to have designer frames or ultra thin lenses, why shouldn't they?

I didn't see anyone complaining about how much they paid, just stating a fact relevant to the context of this thread.

PenguinOfDeath

Crikey what is the next thread going to be?

'My daughter came round and scratched my girlfriend's car whilst playing outside '

'Why did you let her near a car worth £10,000?'

'you paid £10,000 for a car?! You could have picked a banger up for £200, it still drives!'

jaylee3

Nah don't buy it.

Despite all the cries and insistence of 'mine cost £500 to £550 because of the thinned lense, the bifocals/varifocals, the UV filter, the fluffy bits of extras and all that jazz,' no way in hell does a pair of glasses need to cost £500 to £600 for one pair, not anywhere, not ever, no matter what extras you have added, unless they are designer. I know many people who have had glasses with all the bits that everyone has mentioned and no way does it cost that.

And people are saying that nobody is complaining, but this started with a conversation about whether you should pay for a pair of glasses that your friend or partner owns if your child breaks them. Some people came along and said 'well you can get reading glasses for next to nothing' and then some other posters came along and said some glasses cost £500-£600, so then they should have to pay because of the great cost of them. It's here that I thought 'come off it, you don't need to spend that much on one pair of glasses, and if you do, more fool you. You are obviously buying designer.'

And I don't need to wear glasses myself to know all this! My father wears glasses all the time, and has done for 30 years, and so does my brother, and also my husband's brother. All 3 of them need them all the time, and all 3 of them them have all the extras that everyone is mentioning here, and neither they, or anyone else I know ever spends £500-£600 on one pair of glasses.

As I said, the only way you would do that is if you bought designer frames. You can get a perfectly decent frame from Boots or Specsavers for £60 to £85. Even if you had every 'extra' going, you would not pay more than £300 - and that is the absolute maximum. You can often get them for less, and get 2 pairs for the price of 1 sometimes too. So I don't buy this claim that 'my one pair of glasses has to cost £500 to £600.'

And yes I am feeling all right thank you, I just can't believe the things people are expecting people to believe.

I am done on this thread now. The thread has just got the usual people backing each other up now.

Bye. :wave:

Pollycat

jaylee3 wrote: »

Nah don't buy it.

Despite all the cries and insistence of 'mine cost £500 to £550 because of the thinned lense, the bifocals/varifocals, the UV filter, the fluffy bits of extras and all that jazz,' no way in hell does a pair of glasses need to cost £500 to £600 for one pair, not anywhere, not ever, no matter what extras you have added, unless they are designer. I know many people who have had glasses with all the bits that everyone has mentioned and no way does it cost that.

And people are saying that nobody is complaining, but this started with a conversation about whether you should pay for a pair of glasses that your friend or partner owns if your child breaks them. Some people came along and said 'well you can get reading glasses for next to nothing' and then some other posters came along and said some glasses cost £500-£600, so then they should have to pay because of the great cost of them. It's here that I thought 'come off it, you don't need to spend that much on one pair of glasses, and if you do, more fool you. You are obviously buying designer.'

And I don't need to wear glasses myself to know all this! My father wears glasses all the time, and has done for 30 years, and so does my brother, and also my husband's brother. All 3 of them need them all the time, and all 3 of them them have all the extras that everyone is mentioning here, and neither they, or anyone else I know ever spends £500-£600 on one pair of glasses.

As I said, the only way you would do that is if you bought designer frames. You can get a perfectly decent frame from Boots or Specsavers for £60 to £85. Even if you had every 'extra' going, you would not pay more than £300 - and that is the absolute maximum. You can often get them for less, and get 2 pairs for the price of 1 sometimes too. So this claim that 'my one pair of glasses has to cost £500 to £600' is utter nonsense.

And yes I am feeling all right thank you, I just can't believe the things people are expecting people to believe.

I am done on this thread now. The thread has just got the usual people backing each other up now.

Bye. :wave:

You don't seem to grasp the difference between 'need' and 'want'.

I may not need a new pair of shoes, but if I want them, I'll buy them and I'll answer to nobody - except maybe someone who shares my bank account.

So you're right, nobody needs to spend that much on spectacles but it's really none of your business what they spend.
And it doesn't matter what your family spends on spectacles either.

Personally, if someone posts on here saying their spectacles cost £500+ , I'll believe them.
I certainly wouldn't post that they were talking 'utter nonsense'.

As for 'people backing each other up', there's usually a few difference of opinions on threads.
Just because people post agreeing with an alternative viewpoint to that which you hold doesn't make them wrong.
It doesn't make you right.
It's a diffference of opinion, that's all.

:wave:

cbrown372

£500 for a pair lasting say the 2 years before you need to replace equates to less than 70p a day for something you wear every day, bargain to me

Homeownertobe

jaylee3 wrote: »

Nah don't buy it.

Despite all the cries and insistence of 'mine cost £500 to £550 because of the thinned lense, the bifocals/varifocals, the UV filter, the fluffy bits of extras and all that jazz,' no way in hell does a pair of glasses need to cost £500 to £600 for one pair, not anywhere, not ever, no matter what extras you have added, unless they are designer. I know many people who have had glasses with all the bits that everyone has mentioned and no way does it cost that.

And people are saying that nobody is complaining, but this started with a conversation about whether you should pay for a pair of glasses that your friend or partner owns if your child breaks them. Some people came along and said 'well you can get reading glasses for next to nothing' and then some other posters came along and said some glasses cost £500-£600, so then they should have to pay because of the great cost of them. It's here that I thought 'come off it, you don't need to spend that much on one pair of glasses, and if you do, more fool you. You are obviously buying designer.'

And I don't need to wear glasses myself to know all this! My father wears glasses all the time, and has done for 30 years, and so does my brother, and also my husband's brother. All 3 of them need them all the time, and all 3 of them them have all the extras that everyone is mentioning here, and neither they, or anyone else I know ever spends £500-£600 on one pair of glasses.

As I said, the only way you would do that is if you bought designer frames. You can get a perfectly decent frame from Boots or Specsavers for £60 to £85. Even if you had every 'extra' going, you would not pay more than £300 - and that is the absolute maximum. You can often get them for less, and get 2 pairs for the price of 1 sometimes too. So I don't buy this claim that 'my one pair of glasses has to cost £500 to £600.'

And yes I am feeling all right thank you, I just can't believe the things people are expecting people to believe.

I am done on this thread now. The thread has just got the usual people backing each other up now.

Bye. :wave:

borkid

cbrown372 wrote: »

£500 for a pair lasting say the 2 years before you need to replace equates to less than 70p a day for something you wear every day, bargain to me

For me an even better baragin as my last pair lasted 10 years so 14p per day and my current pair I'm into year 3 and still no change needed.

duchy

If I'd paid £500 for a pair of glasses I hope I wouldn't be daft enough to leave them lying around where a child could damage them accidently.