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Eyeglass frames, hell, have you priced cars or fried pigskins lately.

Oakley

Its crazy. Freaking set of glasses now go for more that my Zeiss 15x binocs, of course, i didnt get the expensive ones. Daniel Boone would have thought mine were the cats meow.

If youre good, you can get it done without the best.

I use Zenni with complete satisfaction.

Had a guy about 65 or so iirc come in with distorted vision in one eye for a good while. I asked how long since hed had a complete eye exam. Never. Just buys readers.

Dilated exam revealed a choroidal malignant melanoma. Choroid is the vascular layer of the eye lying just behind the retina which feeds the outer layers of the retina. The retinal vessels seen exiting the whitish optic nerve into the retina in this pic feed the inner layers.

Caught early, radio active implants can often save a life.

Young kids with retinoblastoma intraocular tumors can be saved if the condition is caught soon enough.



Complete ocular health exams with dilation can pick up retinal tears or holes before they become full fleged sight threatening retinal detachments as seen here in the lower left field and noted by dead retinal tissue from loss of blood supply from the choroid the retina detached from.
If this detachment progresses through the central area of the retina called the macula, no amount of surgery can restore clear central sight due to loss of viability of the detached retina due to loss of blood supply and subsequent tissue atrophy.

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Jewish Sales 101:

Charge $200 for the glasses and if no complaints say, "For the frames. The lenses are $100." If no complaints say, "Each."

I get my glasses and hearing aids at the VA. All are free.
Beats Costco all day long.
George

Yep. I bought a pair of nice sunglasses from one of their brands (Oliver People's). They're nicer than my Ray Bans, but I did pay for them.

Because they can.

Same with hearing aids.

Huge markups.
A friend graduated in Opthalmology and told me that they have insane MSRPs on most frames.
The lenses are also like that.

Because you'd get tired of holding the lenses in your hands.

Like everything medical in the US, government interference increases cost. Gal I knew in college always waited to buy new glasses until she went home to visit. Home was in Hong Kong. Much less expensive and lenses were made thinner than allowed here.

I bought my last frames from Zenni with no intention of using the lenses. Had lenses made locally and still came out ahead.

Who needs frames? I just have willicd76 tape them to my head with packaging tape. You know those arent going anywhere! Lmao

That exam is worth a hundred pairs of Zeiss glasses.
That reminds me that I'm due to get one.

Save 1/2 - use Col. Klink's monocle:

I have several sets of very expensive titanium frames that nobody will put a lens into.

The frame markup is 6X. That's why.

I know. It's a conspiracy.

Day9m. Unreal.

There are cheaper frames available.

I live about 90 minutes from the Mexican border and encourage everyone I know to buy their prescription eyeglasses from Mexican optical shops. They're every bit as clean, modern, and professional as US opticians except their frames, even "designer" frames, are always at least 1/2 the price of the identical frames in the US. The cost savings is absolutely amazing.