eyeglasses or eye test shops

I am in desperate need of getting my eyes checked. Does anyone know of a company that does those? I've seen them in the past but not recently. I'm in Jacksonville, FL.

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I only know of one that does them in Canada. I've never seen US ones.

There was something along those lines here in California lately. But, I think it required already having a current prescription. I’m thinking it was Beyond Hello.

It was quite a few years ago. But I got an exam and new glasses from doing an assignment for them.

"All we want are the facts." Sgt. Joe Friday

Could totally use this.. Or a place that does hearing checks..

A few years ago, after getting our prescriptions, we went to various eyeglasses places. I certainly learned which ones to use and which ones to avoid. I haven't seen them in quite a while. With a different client, I got my glasses two years ago. I haven't seen anything like that since.

As to hearing checks, most of those hearing aid places will give you a free check. One told me that they charge only when the customer buys the expensive hearing aids. I'm not ready for that yet. He cleaned out a lot of ear wax. I was so pleased with how that guy went about his business that I would have gladly paid him well for helping me out but it was free, until. . . .

About Face has facilitated eye shops for the last two years, in the spring (March or April). The client manufactures a particular lens feature/upgrade and wants to ensure that what is sold by the independent optometrists is authentic. You have to go to an optometry office with a prescription, order new glasses (with that upgrade/feature) and pay full price for them (no insurance). When they are ready for pick-up, you have to ship the glasses to About Face. To make a long story short, in addition to the shop fee and expenses, they will reimburse for an eye exam, if you complete two of these shops. {Wow, that was a wordy response}.

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Every hearing check place I've talked to said it's 100+ dollars just for an appointment to have the hearing checked. I'll keep searching the area maybe there's a free one somewhere.

I did a Lasik shop last month and they did a very comprehensive eye exam. They verbally confirmed with me exactly what my correction was and it was more accurate than what I'd get from a normal eye exam. Example: -2.25 from the exam and the Lasik scan determined it was actually -2.18 for that eye. Since glasses are made in .25 increments, you don't need this type of accuracy for an eyeglasses exam. It was a free consultation and a shop payment.

Since I buy my glasses on-line from places that you simply plug in the correction information, I am going to skip my regular eye exam this year.

Cheapest place to get glasses on the Internet as low as $7 and flat $10 shipping for as many as you want to buy:
[www.zennioptical.com]

Slightly more expensive, yet has better coatings and higher infraction lenses and can handle more difficult prescriptions:
[www.optical4less.com]

I got my sunglasses from Zenni and I absolutely love them. Got frames and polarized lenses for $50. Those would have cost me at least $200 at eye doctor.

Kim

I have done a few eyeglass shops and I, too, have learned that there are a couple places NOT to go. Just did one recently and the eye exam was OK but the eyeglasses are bait and switch. Before I left I received 3 different prices. If I had not read the instructions on what to do on this shop I would have paid the first price was was a couple hundred higher than the final price they told me. At another shop I requested a certain lens and when I picked up the glasses and asked for the certificate that was to go with the lenses, I found out that they did not give me the requested brand of lenses.

Moral of the story: If you do have to get eyeglasses and they give you a price, tell them you can't afford them to see how they react. But IMHO, if they give you 2 or 3 different prices, then go elsewhere.

I get my glasses at Costco and they are quite reasonable.

I believe I saw a shop with Service with Style in FL somewhere but I don't remember if it was for an exam or eyeglasses.

Kim

Zenni was recommended to me one time but I couldn't find any trifocals on the website.

Sandra Sue Wrote:
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> Zenni was recommended to me one time but I
> couldn't find any trifocals on the website.

Trifocals are on the way out and progressive bifocals have replaced them in almost all cases.

If you truly need trifocals, then you need to get your glasses locally and have the lenses carefully measured and placed in the frames to fit your face and then adjusted when you pick them up. This is not a mail order item for that reason. Sounds like Costco is the best place for you.

Thanks. I don't live near a Costco and progressives are out for me.

Costco gives free hearing checks. You're on your own for the hearing aid though!!!

Kona Kathie

plmccut Wrote:
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> I get my glasses at Costco and they are quite
> reasonable.

but dont you need to be member of costco to get glasses there?

Yep, hearing aids are ex-pen-sive. Wait until Medicare to lose your hearing! That's what I'm doing, but I don't think my husband believes that I am waiting.

I don't remember the MCS or the chain offhand...but I did one a few years ago....the glasses were ridiculously expensive...and only partially reimbursed...you might make out better just going to a disocunt place..and oh yeah..the glass BROKE....it was a few years...but I am now using my 20 year old glasses that are in good condition....and only slighly weaker..

I use Costco for eyeglasses as a member but if you know someone who is a member you can either go with them or have them purchase a cash card for you. You can reimburse them for it. You can then go to Costco alone and pay for your purchase with the "gift" cash card which is like a gift card. The prescriptions run around $129 for my progressive lenses without all the additional bells and whistles and decent frames are $50 and up. I once saw an exposee on the news where they tested the quality of 20 well known chains and found Costco to be the only one that made accurate glasses over 97% of the time. The others hit it correctly from 60-80% of the time.

There is a dirty little secret in the eyeglasses industry. It is practically a monopoly.

Only Costco and Wall-mart are not owned by a huge French company that owns all the companies that compete against each other and make over 80% of all frames. Yep, even all the different designer ones. It don't matter where you go or what you buy, it's all from Luxottica. They all send out to China to have the frames fitted with the prescription. This is why it takes several weeks unless you are paying for same day service where they cut them in the store for more.

The two online places I posted in China are direct to factory in China and not Luxottica companies. This is why it is so much cheaper.

See:
[www.dailymail.co.uk]

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I'm so glad I live in a border state. I have my glasses made in Mexico with a free eye exam and two pairs of progressives with decent frames can be had for $99, or one pair of transitions progressive for $125. This is in Los Algodones, Mexico, very close to Yuma, Arizona. No switches, no games, no upselling, and decent quality that I have had no problems with over the years.

Sandra Sue, "..waiting til Medicare to lose hearing"...Unfortunately strait Medicare is basically a pretty weak 80/20 plan with deductibles and other copays and co-insurance rules, with many items not covered for various healthcare needs...no routine vision, no maintenance dental and other exclusions. Original Medicare does not cover hearing aids. Hearings aids via medical facilities are very expensive, in the thousands.

Some MAPs Medicare Advantage plans do offer some help such as one plan offers $1k off the price of your one ear $3k hearind aid.

In 2014 in our State & County MAP from AARP UHC UnitedHealthCare offered one with a co-pay of only $330 to about $430 for each hearing aid with free exam, includes fittings. Supposedly most programming will be free except occasionally it may cost $30. Repairs have a fix cost for shipping,handling and range $30-200 max.

Hi healthinnovations is the distributor for getting that price if you were on UHC Medicare ADVANTAGE plan. We are getting one for hubby, will let you know the quality and post the experience later. BTW This was not for any MSC shop.

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