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Eyeglass frames prices.

NickD on Mon March 07, 2005 7:49 AM User is offline

Ha, been all over the net with this lowest prices anywhere bit, my frames supposingly list for $150.00 but with a 33% discount only $99.99, why can't they say a hundred and get it over with? But found the same exact frames at my Shopko store for $49.99. So much for the lowest prices anywhere on the net, and I looked at hundreds of them. Looking at woman's frame the price range is from 50 to 300 bucks at the local optical shops, the 50 bucks frames look like they will break if you look at them too hard.

What throws me for a loop is all these places sell reading glasses with frames and lenses, many different frame styles, plastic or wire. Maybe I am stone blind, but I can't see any difference between these frames and the ones that cost over 200 bucks, but the most expensive complete glasses on these racks is well under ten bucks. The lenses are not that bad, around 60 bucks per pair for single vision lenses.

One of these days will have the nerve to ask if they can cut lenses for these off the shelve reading glass frames. My son-in-law got this laser lens trimming for $3,500.00 an eye, that isn't covered under HMO, but I wonder about me, near sighted with glasses off, but very far sighted with the glasses on, they claim the eye is no longer as flexible as one gets old. I rarely wear glasses in the home, can see great, but required to wear them when driving. Wonder if I did get laser trimming if I could see distance, but would have to wear glasses for everything else. But how these things skyrocketed in price over the last few years.

Dang eyes kept me from my chosen profession, always wanted to be an airline pilot, ha didn't even know I needed glasses until I was a freshman in high school, they never tested back then, no wonder why my grades were so bad, LOL. Can't really complain about wearing glasses, the number of times they were broken by flying objects, better to break the glasses than my eyeballs.

meaux on Mon March 07, 2005 8:42 AM User is offlineView users profile

Heck, I buy all my reading/workin glasses at the Dollar store. $10 buys 10 pair of glasses, and I spread em' all over the house, I have 2 pair in every room and in every bathroom.

My wife wears those "Extended Wear" contacts, at $80 a box. I don't know how many are in a box, but she buys 2 boxes at a time every 2 months.....after a certain period of time she has to see the "eye doctor" (local ripoff artist)
to renew her script.

I did some checkin into the Laser thing, and it won't work for my wife, and for me, it won't last but just a few years....so, the heck with it. It's not a permanent fix......even for $3500 per eye? Wonder what the effects are of mulitple treatments over the years? I figure, once a person gets used to "seeing" better, he won't be able to live without it.....Hooked on Laser.......That will make the news in 20 years.......

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Lazy bum who lives off his wife.

01 BMW 530i Sport, 92 Porsche 968, 85 F150, 72 911, 08 GM SUV, 01' Ford Lightnin'

NickD on Mon March 07, 2005 9:52 AM User is offline

My wife also wears those throwaway contacts, but she worked for J&J and got them practically for nothing. She came here with a years supply. My neighbor lady does that laser trimming, when our clinic advertised for that position, the starting pay was $475K per year, but she is living a very modest home and is driving older vehicles.

Ha, wondering if I should borrow your signature, just dropped my wife off at work, her first day. What a woman, felt very guilty living off of me for the last year and supporting her daughter, but I feel strange now being married to a working wife. And quite accustomed to supporting my family. But she is like my sisters that have always worked all of their lives, but she won't have to support me. The nice part of her new job is fully paid health insurance, blasted premiums for a family with a policy like that run $1,136.00 per month that a guy earning minimum for a 40 hour week would be $243.00 shy of carrying that kind of insurance.

I was in contact with a doctor in China, she told me that doctors there earn less than a bus driver and don't get paid unless they actually cure a person. Heck, since we are getting everything else from China, maybe we should import their medical staff. Our average prescription prices are a factor of around 100 times greater than in Venezuela for exactly the same drug but they really get robbed on vehicles, parts, and any imported appliance. Heck a PCMCIA flashrom adapter card we can buy here for three bucks was well over a hundred dollars using the fair exchange rate in Caracas.

Ha, I recently learned that I can draw my SS check almost any where in the world except some former USSR countries, North Korea, and Viet Nam as long as I maintain my USA citizenship and use direct deposit. The question is where, all of Europe is out, South America is out, and many Americanized places in Mexico is more expensive than living here, except could hire a maid for about 20 bucks a week. But I gather many of our politicians are doing that here. China is out, my son was going there monthly and constantly getting ill from the air and water pollution. Ha, we should send our EPA there. Permanently.

Would be nice if a guy could find a place he can survive on SS payments, but even the top $1,800.00 a month payment isn't enough. Now if they gave me my money back at the standard IRA rate in one lump sum, could live very nicely off the interest without even touching the principle, but yet they say SS is in trouble. Something is amiss.

HerkyJim on Mon March 07, 2005 10:19 AM User is offline

In the service they gave us flyers two pair of clear and two pair of tinted specs. Design has not changed one bit in at least 36 years and probably much longer than that. After I retired I bought some snazzy but (relatively) inexpensive specs with a "progressive" correction in the bifocal part. Worked OK. Then I thought I'd step up for $260 to a pair same type frames with "no-line" lenses when I needed a new prescription. Mistake. the reading strength is so naer the bottom that I can't use them for reading.

Being the cheapskate I am, I pulled out an old pair of service specs and removed the lenses and took the frames to a discount place and got trifocals installed for $80. That's too much, but best I could do. No extra charge to install my lenses in my frames. WallyMart and other places want to charge you for that. They work great and are very durable.

I can buy new GI issue sunglasses at the BX for $22--was $18 couple of years ago. Remove lenses and install prescrition lens and good-to-go. American Optical (AO) or Randolph Engineering. $50-$60 downtown same thing. Italian company bought Bausch and Lomb and AO too I believ and is working diligently to gain a monopoly I've read.

My $0.20

meaux on Mon March 07, 2005 11:30 AM User is offlineView users profile

Nick says, "Now if they gave me my money back at the standard IRA rate in one lump sum, could live very nicely off the interest without even touching the principle, but yet they say SS is in trouble. Something is amiss."

Something is amiss allright. Notice now that the Democrats are saying SS in fine shape.....Hummm?

Bill Clinton didn't think so.....or AlGore.....but now that there is a President that wants to make it better (and volantary) for young people that don't even have a job yet, they can't stand it.

If Bush's plan (and it's not even worked out yet) is to allow people to take 4% and invest it in low risk mutual funds, (like all the politicians and government workers get to do) were applied 40 years ago, we'd all be millionaires with our own dang money, that we can pass on to our kids.

They do not want to fix SS, they will just raise the retirement age, after all, nobody was supposed to live long enough to collect it anyway....thats the fly in the soup........they cannot do without a lousy 4%, that would cut into the social spending they do now......Like I told my 18yr. old son,"there is no law against you investing in your own retirement now, and at an average stock market growth of 12%, you could very well be a millionare in 40 years."

I guess the first recipiants of SS, are the ones that made out fine, they didn't pay into the system at all!

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Lazy bum who lives off his wife.

01 BMW 530i Sport, 92 Porsche 968, 85 F150, 72 911, 08 GM SUV, 01' Ford Lightnin'

NickD on Mon March 07, 2005 11:53 AM User is offline

My ophthalmologist talked me into bifocals, what a waste of money and my neck got darn sore with a lot of time spent at my computer looking up at the ceiling. Driving and flying also drove me nuts with the constant vision changes with bifocals, was getting seasick. So I took those glasses back and had a prescription cut to the bifocal part for the entire lens and call those my computer glasses. Normally just take my glasses off at the computer but when doing fine work with CAD programs, like to lean back in front of my 21" hi res monitor to get an overall picture. Fortunately my vision isn't that bad yet, the instrument panel is still clear, but it is hell getting old.

I learned by putting pressure on top of my left eyeball, can see distant objects clearly if I don't have my glasses, some gene I inherited made my eyeballs oblong. Have discussed the current eyeglass technology with optical engineers, some kind of expanding lens is required with brain feedback, maybe next year.

Heck, my hearing is going to pot as well, could easily hear the 15,750 Hz loud racket that TV horizontal flyback transformers make, now have to get real close. Wonder how these young kids are going to survive listening to that 130+ db rock racket. Osha says wear ear protection above 85 db and most speakers kick out 90+ db at one meter with just 1 watt applied. They use 1,000+watt amplifiers.

See all these granny glasses in fashion now, the kind with lenses about 1/2" high, hell I want to see without turning my head, but should get those if I ever have to take a driving test again.

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