Page 1 of Reasonable priced glasses

Just had a nosey at a site selling specs at incredibly low prices
recently spent £120 quid at my local opticians
anyway have a look web address is www.glassesdirect.co.uk
and no i dont work for the before mentioned website having just forked out a fortune on new glasses i thought this looked like a good site and by eck better vision dosent half improve the whole experience of watching a good dvd

This item was edited on Wednesday, 1st September 2004, 13:08

Hmm, you don`t need glasses to see who you work for! :D

YAWN, another fuking spammer :p
if you wanna advertise contact RJS and pay like everyone else :p

Ooohh! So quick to jump to conclusions.

Im sure Kellysbrowneye will pipe up and defend themselves any minute now!

Any minute now.............

er...........now.............

c`mon..........throw me a bone here.........

There`s nothing obvious to link the OP with the company.

This`ll probably just sink to the bottom - I`m loathe to delete it at present.

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Clayts, Moderator, DVD Reviewer
UK webmaster for Area 450 the independent Sampo/Maxent DVD site

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I`m loathe to delete it at present.

:o whats got into the chopper :o you have`nt killed a thread for at least ohhhh 5 minutes ;)

Excellent "spot". I`m an Optician and I love this sort of thing. I get loads of people buying glasses from places like this coming in with problems, and I wont touch them. They`re nothing to do with me, so why should I sort out the problems. They are cheap, but you get no support, no assistance in picking the right frames or lenses and the measurments will be wrong as a spectacles prescription only includes the lens power, not where they should be fitted!

I have found this site very useful in the past, and only today have i fealt the need to put in my tenpenneth !!

I believe that the prescription glasses industry have had a good run over the years and has been one of the few remaining industries not to be heavily challenged by the online trader. I too run my own `service` based business, but 5 years ago my industry was thrashed by the supermarket and online traders, i also used the terms `you get no support etc... but in the end we started charging this type of customer for our superior service... and they paid !!!

so i say good luck to glassesdirect, i for one think that the high street shops have been taking advantage for long enough, i agree we should pay a reasonable sum for an eye test which is carried out by a highly trained `doctor` but the rest of the optical store staff are pure sales people who have done the short `eye measuring` coarse.

i checked out the website listed and these people only charge £10 for the extra coatings, my last pair of glasses double in price when the extras were put on giving little change out of £300. I am willing to gamble 60 quid to see if this sort of service will work

Quote from Glasses Direct FAQ Quote:
What if my frames need adjustment after I receive them?
All frames are thoroughly inspected, aligned and verified to the prescription given by means of a Focimeter prior to shipping. If you need a minor adjustment, most optical stores will do it for free.

Well I wear specs and I find the final fiddling and bending of the frames the most valuable part of the service. I`m sure that if my local opticians knew that I had paid £15 over the web for frames and lenses they would certainly not Quote:
do it for free.

Sam.



"Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been extinguished." Spike Milligan

bovril it`s strange how you`ve found this site useful in the past but suddenly feel the need to make your first post about this website.
That`s two first time posts shouting about the same site, maybe you should rethink closing this clayts. ;).


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