contact lens discussion thread (merged)

a5ian300zx

oher websites you might want to look at.

http://www.postoptics.co.uk/

http://www.specsaversdirect.com/

janemoore

I have just ordered from sainsbury's contact lenses. The price for my daily lenses was the best i could find anywhere online a £18 per 30 pairs of focus dailies including FREE postage and I even earnt nectar points too!

I phoned them with a few questions and the service was excellent. I had to post them my prescription so that they could check it, but at least it was a freepost address. I received my lenses the day after they got my prescription. I can reorder without having to send it again.

For once i think saisnburys have got something spot on!

https://www.sainsburyscontactlenses.co.uk

janemoore

I have just ordered from sainsbury's contact lenses. The price for my daily lenses was the best i could find anywhere online a £18 per 30 pairs of focus dailies including FREE postage and I even earnt nectar points too!

I phoned them with a few questions and the service was excellent. I had to post them my prescription so that they could check it, but at least it was a freepost address. I received my lenses the day after they got my prescription. I can reorder without having to send it again.

For once i think saisnburys have got something spot on!

https://www.sainsburyscontactlenses.co.uk

swizzle_2

Who are best/cheapest to do a trial with?

I used to wear GP contact lenses, for which i paid for monthly, got 2 pairs a year.


I would like to go onto daily disposalbles or evern monthly ones and just wear then when I want. I have an astigmtisum, so will need toric lenses.

Idea is to trial them on the high st then buy on line.

Any idea`s?

Thanks

bigfoot125

Where does everyone get their solutions cheap,i am lookin for gas permeable stuff
cheers

Poppy9

My OH gets his from Boots when on offer.

Read in Daily Mail that Specsavers have taken some solution off the market. Think it's Renu. Some problem in US where people have contracted an eye disease that leads to blindness. The manufacturers say it doesn't affect European supplies.

RoCas

I ordered last month for the first time over the internet from Club Optique:
http://www.cluboptique.com/

They were very efficient, with quick delivery and the solution I was looking for was competitively priced.

hampshirebabe

Hi PennyPincher, Does he want daily disposables because they're so easy to use? if so, you could get him to try continous wear, which also dont need cleaning, but are much cheaper. I've just got some o2optix, which you can wear up to 6 night's then you take them out for one night and then have abother 6 nights, They are a lot more comfortable than they used to be. 6 pairs lasts 6 months, (although I've just realised I've been wearing mine for 6 weeks not four, not that I'm recomending it) and cost about £36, £72 for a year, and its so nice getting up in the morning and being able to see straight away!

purplepatch

Very impressed with the current deal at https://www.okvision.co.uk who have currently got a special offer price on these lenses - a 6 months supply (180 pairs) of B&L daily soflens for £104 with free delivery (usually £125). Year's supply was £198.

Second best was contactforlenses at £107.50 delivered, then postoptics £108 and next was sainsburyscontactlenses at £109.80 but nectar points too.

I ordered from okvision very late last night and have already had a call from my opticians this morning saying that they have been contacted to confirm prescription details, so seems pretty efficient so far.

regvardy

I got this weblink and article from the FT online 26/04/2006 of all places (I don't pay for the FT online, they are currently running a free online trial with no details, its actually very impressive)

The guy who invented daily disposables is now cutting out the middle man (increasingly the supermarkets) and selling daily disposables direct to the public at £12.99 a month. (total price)

http://www.daysoft.co.uk/contactlenswearers/index.asp

I pay £55 for 3 months supply of Biomedics daily disposable from Visiondirect. I currently get free postage because they are reorderred and I get a further 10% discount thru Quidco. Total price £55.

The equivalent 3 month suppy of lenses (96 pairs) (from the inventor of daily disposables), are £39 total. PRICE WAR, and he doesn't like supermarkets.

Inventor aims to transform disposable contact lens market

By Andrew Bolger, Scotland Correspondent


A price war is likely to break out over daily disposable contact lenses with their inventor starting to sell to consumers directly, significantly undercutting supermarkets such as Tesco.
Ron Hamilton, 64, cofounded the company that developed the technology in 1989, selling it to Bausch and Lomb, a US-based eyecare group, in 1996 for $33m. A further $15m was paid for intellectual property rights. Mr Hamilton agreed not to sell contact lenses for five years.
However, when the restrictive period ended in 2001, Mr Hamilton launched Daysoft, which he claims will transform the market and make lens cleaning almost redundant overnight. A month’s supply of the company’s own daily disposables will cost only £12.99.
Although most sales will be made over the internet, Daysoft said it was committed to supporting independent opticians threatened by recent legislative changes, which allowed supermarkets to start selling lenses.
All the big contact lens manufacturers have been keen to supply supermarkets at prices lower than those available to independent opticians. But this is not a route to market that appeals to Mr Hamilton. “Contact lenses are not baked beans and as a privately-owned business we never want to find ourselves working under the lash of some buyer from Tesco or Asda,” he said. “Our unique price point opens up the possibility of a health revolution in eyecare as it will allow users of monthly lenses to move to daily disposables – one in 10 wearers is allergic to lens cleaning solutions. But the best way to do this was to remain in partnership with independent opticians.”
Daysoft claims lens wearers would be able to save up to £250 a year compared with prices from chains such as Specsavers and supermarkets. It said its high specification lenses were 30 per cent cheaper than online supermarket prices.
Daysoft supplies more than 5m daily disposable lenses to independent opticians across the country. By combining this with selling direct to consumers, the company aims to increase its UK market share rapidly to more than 5 per cent, which would see its UK sales surge from £700,000 last year to more than £3m by 2008.
Where a wearer places a direct order, Daysoft will credit that person’s optician, if they have an account with the company.
Mr Hamilton said: “It is the independent opticians who have helped us develop our UK business and we intend to remain loyal to them.
“The wide customer base they give us and the personal professional service they give consumers, combined with our unique lowcost manufacturing and supply technologies, represent the best ‘partnership’ benefiting contact lens wearers.”