Specsavers do very good frames pretty cheap. If you want the best, then it's not got a hell of a lot to do with your sight.
I've seen the cheap frames in Specsavers and they aren't different to the cheapo ones in Boots.
I am not walking about in frames that look like something from the seventies thank you. That is my preference I just wish the ones I like were cheaper than they are.
I know. My eyesight is very poor and keeps getting worse every time I go to get them checked. (It should have stabilised by now) My lenses cost around £200 iirc. I have to get them thinned and I'm pretty sure I get an anti-glare coating on them too. My frames cost a fraction of that and I plan to keep them for a while yet. They take a few weeks to come and I just sit there 'blind' in the shop whilst they change the lenses over.
I know. My eyesight is very poor and keeps getting worse every time I go to get them checked. (It should have stabilised by now) My lenses cost around £200 iirc. I have to get them thinned and I'm pretty sure I get an anti-glare coating on them too. My frames cost a fraction of that and I plan to keep them for a while yet. They take a few weeks to come and I just sit there 'blind' in the shop whilst they change the lenses over.
Bad eye sight is such burden on ones life isn't it
Where are people finding all these cheap offers ?! I got my glasses this week at scrivens, but only because I had a half price voucher, and it still cost me over £100!
Designer Frames, who are they kidding. Its just a name put on a cheaply made bit of plastic and wire, sold for an exorbitant price your'e the mugs for falling for it.
Think of a Multi-Function Electronic Calculator and technology that went into making it and compare its price to your "Designer" frames, then you must see its one big Con Trick.
My vision is such that I have a "complex lenses" prescription for short sight and astigmatism and am entitled to non means tested nhs help with lense costs. This amounts to £10 off my £400 glasses each year! Or £10 off my £624 annual contact lense bill! Either lenses or glasses despite me needing to have both.
Designer Frames, who are they kidding. Its just a name put on a cheaply made bit of plastic and wire, sold for an exorbitant price your'e the mugs for falling for it.
Think of a Multi-Function Electronic Calculator and technology that went into making it and compare its price to your "Designer" frames, then you must see its one big Con Trick.
No, you need to compare a pair of specs, consisting of two rims and a pair of arms, with a similarly priced bicycle, which uses 1000 times as much material with hundreds of intricate parts!
As for the lenses, someone at Specsaves once admitted to me, after ordering the third set because the first two were wrong (and I was worried that they were losing money), that a pair of standard lenses costs about 50p.
But then, if they were sold at actual cost, there wouldn't be a viable business. For most people who only need a new pair every few years, the cost of being able to see properly is affordable.
To a degree, I can understand people preferring more fashionable designer frames if they are acquiring glasses for all day wearing.
If you only have glasses for reading, as I do, it's not that important, to me at least.
If I look like I'm wearing 1950s NHS frames, so what, at least I can see what I'm reading, and I'll take them off when I'm done.
No, you need to compare a pair of specs, consisting of two rims and a pair of arms, with a similarly priced bicycle, which uses 1000 times as much material with hundreds of intricate parts!
As for the lenses, someone at Specsaves once admitted to me, after ordering the third set because the first two were wrong (and I was worried that they were losing money), that a pair of standard lenses costs about 50p.
But then, if they were sold at actual cost, there wouldn't be a viable business. For most people who only need a new pair every few years, the cost of being able to see properly is affordable.
Assuming they mean the cost price of a pair of mass-produced lenses is 50p, presumably that's the cost per pair to Specsavers as a company with around 1,700 branches and a turnover of £1.7 billion. They must have huge buying power which results in the unit cost of non-specialist lenses being very low.
But the other side of the argument is that they have to pay rental on their shops, utility bills, staff wages etc, and they have to sell lots of glasses to cover those costs and make a profit. Also they presumably have to subsidise eye tests if they offer them free, and when customers have their eyes tested and then don't buy glasses presumably that makes no money.
Not defending Specsavers, just wondering how relevant the cost price of lenses and frames is when you look at the bigger picture. If opticians don't make a profit, there's no point in them trading.
What bugs me more than the price (though that's bad enough) is the length of time it takes to get them. In 2001 I got mine done in Paphos, Cyprus (every other shop there is an optician). I have varifocals, with lightweight lenses, scratchproof coating, and all the bells and whistles. I paid just over forty quid, and it took them 48 hours. And they delivered them to my hotel.
What bugs me more than the price (though that's bad enough) is the length of time it takes to get them. In 2001 I got mine done in Paphos, Cyprus (every other shop there is an optician). I have varifocals, with lightweight lenses, scratchproof coating, and all the bells and whistles. I paid just over forty quid, and it took them 48 hours. And they delivered them to my hotel.
Designer Frames, who are they kidding. Its just a name put on a cheaply made bit of plastic and wire, sold for an exorbitant price your'e the mugs for falling for it.
Think of a Multi-Function Electronic Calculator and technology that went into making it and compare its price to your "Designer" frames, then you must see its one big Con Trick.
Frames can differ greatly.
You can get cheap plastic ones. Then you can get metal or carbon ones.
You pay more for flexible frames and those with the spring in the arms so that they don't deform or snap when you take them off and put them on etc.
Been buying online for a few years now. I know people will defend how important it is for an optician to do everything for you & that I could go blind if I make a mistake in typing out the sizes on an online form, but if I can save over a £100 each time I buy glasses, I'll take that risk...
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It does piss me off but I know I just need to pay it if I want the frames I want.
I just wondered if others felt the same I am not expecting to change anything.
There is nothing I can do about it.
Specsavers do very good frames pretty cheap. If you want the best, then it's not got a hell of a lot to do with your sight.
I've seen the cheap frames in Specsavers and they aren't different to the cheapo ones in Boots.
I am not walking about in frames that look like something from the seventies thank you. That is my preference I just wish the ones I like were cheaper than they are.
Bad eye sight is such burden on ones life isn't it
Thank you
I am 31 and so far mine hasn't stabilised.
Hopefully soon though and thanks
I'd probably do the same if I could afford it. ;-)
I couldn't really afford it
But at least I can see now and the glasses look good
My tenants have left two pair of distance (short sighted) glasses behind which match my prescription, purely by chance. Cost = zeropaid.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/short-sightedness/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Think of a Multi-Function Electronic Calculator and technology that went into making it and compare its price to your "Designer" frames, then you must see its one big Con Trick.
No, you need to compare a pair of specs, consisting of two rims and a pair of arms, with a similarly priced bicycle, which uses 1000 times as much material with hundreds of intricate parts!
As for the lenses, someone at Specsaves once admitted to me, after ordering the third set because the first two were wrong (and I was worried that they were losing money), that a pair of standard lenses costs about 50p.
But then, if they were sold at actual cost, there wouldn't be a viable business. For most people who only need a new pair every few years, the cost of being able to see properly is affordable.
If you only have glasses for reading, as I do, it's not that important, to me at least.
If I look like I'm wearing 1950s NHS frames, so what, at least I can see what I'm reading, and I'll take them off when I'm done.
My favourite is pair of Foster Grant ready readers which cost about £10.
But the other side of the argument is that they have to pay rental on their shops, utility bills, staff wages etc, and they have to sell lots of glasses to cover those costs and make a profit. Also they presumably have to subsidise eye tests if they offer them free, and when customers have their eyes tested and then don't buy glasses presumably that makes no money.
Not defending Specsavers, just wondering how relevant the cost price of lenses and frames is when you look at the bigger picture. If opticians don't make a profit, there's no point in them trading.
I have to wait 9 days for my latest pair.
Mine took 8 days.
You can get cheap plastic ones. Then you can get metal or carbon ones.
You pay more for flexible frames and those with the spring in the arms so that they don't deform or snap when you take them off and put them on etc.