I have just discovered one massive rip off, went and had my eyes checked and needed new glasses selected some light half frames and chose self tint and anti glare lenses.
quote -frames $480 lenses $840. Total $1320
complained about price and chose to use own frame price back to $840 said still too expensive so they offered to deduct further $176 then a further $253 back from health fund now down to $411 out of pocket, I had to have glasses upgraded so went ahead but still believe that I have found the award winning Ripoff of all time $840 for two shaped pieces of plastic with coating especially when they could discount by $176 without any real argument from me.
copper1 said
06:23 PM Jan 17, 2015
Seems a fair bit excessive, I use this site after I get my eyes tested, I get the prescription and jump online cheapest set I have brought thus far $56 nothing wrong with them and there are other on this site that have used them as well so I ask you??? name and shame these rip off merchants.
Mate; if you are in a fund of any kind go to specsavers. We get two pair each including all the checks for free every two yrs.
Blues Man said
07:36 PM Jan 17, 2015
Should have gone to spec savers.
Dougwe said
07:49 PM Jan 17, 2015
copper1 wrote:
Seems a fair bit excessive, I use this site after I get my eyes tested, I get the prescription and jump online cheapest set I have brought thus far $56 nothing wrong with them and there are other on this site that have used them as well so I ask you??? name and shame these rip off merchants.
The company used was the big national one Oh Please Save Me from the rip off merchants
Cruising Cruze said
08:44 PM Jan 17, 2015
Just tell them that you would shop some where else and stick them where the sun won't shine
we us spec safers I've got bifocals and only less than $200
all them shops had it to good for many many years to rip us off
them frames cost them less than $50
same with the glases they use to be from glas this days you flat finding one that still suply real glasses
it's all plastic this days
Cheers John
Helena said
09:37 PM Jan 17, 2015
Interested in the site you put on about the glasses how does it work do you send your script to them and then they fit them into frames. I have paid heaps for glasses in the past so know where you are coming from . Thanks in advance.
-- Edited by Helena on Saturday 17th of January 2015 09:37:58 PM
hako said
11:37 PM Jan 17, 2015
There is a mob called Zenni optical based in USA but glasses are sourced from China (as are most in Australia) - they offer bifocals starting at about $20 plus $10 shipping....single vision start at $6.95 - that's lens and frames. http://www.zennioptical.com/
Just Google "cheap glasses" and get the shock of your life.
banjo said
11:48 PM Jan 17, 2015
Another vote for Zenni, brilliant glasses good service and the most expensive pair on their site is around $60 ! Say no more.
As for Spec Savers, my daughter has had nothing but problems with her glasses from them, first pair broke, replaced then same fault again, so she was advised to change the frames to different style, this time they didn't sit level on her face and the assistant tried to bend the frames and broke that pair !
To say she was not happy was an understatement, now uses Zenni and no problems so far.
Only downside is you have to have your prescription to order and they take around 10 days to arrive in oz.
rockylizard said
08:20 AM Jan 18, 2015
Gday...
I certainly hate to spend more than I need to - or should - on any product.
The cost of maintaining a 'medical professional' practice is not insignificant, but I also don't like to see products that seem to carry too much mark up.
However, if the purchasing choices expressed in this thread become the 'preferred' method of obtaining specs I see another industry/service in Straya suffering - and ultimately us suffering.
This means that optomertrists will only be there to do an eye test and provide a script which will then be used by the consumer to get the completed spectacles direct from overseas.
Who do you go to when the specs don't quite fit properly and need adjustment - or don't fit your head - or the lens has not been made to the script (which has happened to me more than once in my lifetime) - bit difficult to do on the internet.
I would suggest if this trend grows, as it quite probably is going to do, then optomertrists will not be there for the long term. They certainly do not make a profit on testing eyes and writing scripts. I believe they all simply bulk bill for that and make their profit on the provision of the actual item.
One wonders why an Strayan optomertrist does not just do the test, take the order, place it online with the "cheapo" chinese mob overseas, add their mark-up but still sell cheaper than all the other local optomertrists. Perhaps they are a bit concerned about quality and the need to provide 'warranty' on the product.Who knows, given the 'cheap' prices by Spec Savers - they may be doing that already.
So do we just keep taking our business to overseas providers and then join in the hullabullu when we lose our "in country" optical services?
But then it is not our problem ... it is the fault of the Government ... the Greens ... or the unions ... anyone but us - the buyer/consumer.
We certainly are a country that is going backwards faster than we realise.
Cheers - John
-- Edited by rockylizard on Sunday 18th of January 2015 08:23:07 AM
dING said
08:28 AM Jan 18, 2015
They do already ---- Purchase the specs from overseas that is
I bought some specs from specsavers and took them to local
Optometrist who took one look at the logo on the case and
Was quite happy that he had supplied them --- His words
One of mine eh
jules47 said
08:31 AM Jan 18, 2015
Been buying my specs from Specsavers since they began - the service is terrific, choice of frames and prices is very good, after sales service - lost screws, bent arms etc. will be done by any of their stores all over the country. I think my last ones were two for $149 - good price for good looking frames.
Friend of mine used to go to Hong Kong a lot - she would buy half a dozen frames and go to her local optometrist and get lenses put in - frames cost her an average of $2 each!!!!! But I like to try frames on, and have them adjusted to fit, so SS it will be for me!!!
Cadpete said
08:09 PM Jan 18, 2015
Don't get me started about opticians! I am a draftsman by trade and need deep lenses to avoid damaging my neck - moving the eye and not the neck all of the time. I cannot get glasses with a deep enough lense size (62 wide by 50deep is about right) enough anywhere - online or off, as I also need stainless steel frames (or titanium) nett result is I have not brought a pair of glasses for the last 6 years, they keep telling me to get my eyes checked but I won't give them that satisfaction until they can supply the frames!
Oh - I do check my eyesight enough that it is OK to drive by the way :)
I have just discovered one massive rip off, went and had my eyes checked and needed new glasses selected some light half frames and chose self tint and anti glare lenses.
quote -frames $480 lenses $840. Total $1320
complained about price and chose to use own frame price back to $840 said still too expensive so they offered to deduct further $176 then a further $253 back from health fund now down to $411 out of pocket, I had to have glasses upgraded so went ahead but still believe that I have found the award winning Ripoff of all time $840 for two shaped pieces of plastic with coating especially when they could discount by $176 without any real argument from me.
Seems a fair bit excessive, I use this site after I get my eyes tested, I get the prescription and jump online cheapest set I have brought thus far $56 nothing wrong with them and there are other on this site that have used them as well so I ask you??? name and shame these rip off merchants.
http://www.ebd.com.au/wayfarer-eyeglasses.html#attrs=men,wayfarer
Mate; if you are in a fund of any kind go to specsavers. We get two pair each including all the checks for free every two yrs.
Should have gone to spec savers.
Yep, that explains a lot then
Sorry to digress a little there AT.
I use SS as well and find them very good.
we us spec safers I've got bifocals and only less than $200
all them shops had it to good for many many years to rip us off
them frames cost them less than $50
same with the glases they use to be from glas this days you flat finding one that still suply real glasses
it's all plastic this days
Cheers John
Interested in the site you put on about the glasses how does it work do you send your script to them and then they fit them into frames. I have paid heaps for glasses in the past so know where you are coming from . Thanks in advance.
-- Edited by Helena on Saturday 17th of January 2015 09:37:58 PM
There is a mob called Zenni optical based in USA but glasses are sourced from China (as are most in Australia) - they offer bifocals starting at about $20 plus $10 shipping....single vision start at $6.95 - that's lens and frames.
http://www.zennioptical.com/
Just Google "cheap glasses" and get the shock of your life.
As for Spec Savers, my daughter has had nothing but problems with her glasses from them, first pair broke, replaced then same fault again, so she was advised to change the frames to different style, this time they didn't sit level on her face and the assistant tried to bend the frames and broke that pair !
To say she was not happy was an understatement, now uses Zenni and no problems so far.
Only downside is you have to have your prescription to order and they take around 10 days to arrive in oz.
Gday...
I certainly hate to spend more than I need to - or should - on any product.
The cost of maintaining a 'medical professional' practice is not insignificant, but I also don't like to see products that seem to carry too much mark up.
However, if the purchasing choices expressed in this thread become the 'preferred' method of obtaining specs I see another industry/service in Straya suffering - and ultimately us suffering.
This means that optomertrists will only be there to do an eye test and provide a script which will then be used by the consumer to get the completed spectacles direct from overseas.
Who do you go to when the specs don't quite fit properly and need adjustment - or don't fit your head - or the lens has not been made to the script (which has happened to me more than once in my lifetime) - bit difficult to do on the internet.
I would suggest if this trend grows, as it quite probably is going to do, then optomertrists will not be there for the long term. They certainly do not make a profit on testing eyes and writing scripts. I believe they all simply bulk bill for that and make their profit on the provision of the actual item.
One wonders why an Strayan optomertrist does not just do the test, take the order, place it online with the "cheapo" chinese mob overseas, add their mark-up but still sell cheaper than all the other local optomertrists. Perhaps they are a bit concerned about quality and the need to provide 'warranty' on the product. Who knows, given the 'cheap' prices by Spec Savers - they may be doing that already.
So do we just keep taking our business to overseas providers and then join in the hullabullu when we lose our "in country" optical services?
But then it is not our problem
... it is the fault of the Government ... the Greens ... or the unions ... anyone but us - the buyer/consumer.
We certainly are a country that is going backwards faster than we realise.
Cheers - John
-- Edited by rockylizard on Sunday 18th of January 2015 08:23:07 AM
They do already ---- Purchase the specs from overseas that is
I bought some specs from specsavers and took them to local
Optometrist who took one look at the logo on the case and
Was quite happy that he had supplied them --- His words
One of mine eh
Friend of mine used to go to Hong Kong a lot - she would buy half a dozen frames and go to her local optometrist and get lenses put in - frames cost her an average of $2 each!!!!! But I like to try frames on, and have them adjusted to fit, so SS it will be for me!!!
Don't get me started about opticians! I am a draftsman by trade and need deep lenses to avoid damaging my neck - moving the eye and not the neck all of the time. I cannot get glasses with a deep enough lense size (62 wide by 50deep is about right) enough anywhere - online or off, as I also need stainless steel frames (or titanium) nett result is I have not brought a pair of glasses for the last 6 years, they keep telling me to get my eyes checked but I won't give them that satisfaction until they can supply the frames!
Oh - I do check my eyesight enough that it is OK to drive by the way :)