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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Lynda wrote:
> I won't buy anything online from countries such as India.  You have
> no recourse if you don't get what you want and no means of forcing a
> refund.

Good point, and I couldn't find company information, no headquarters, no
corporate website, just the online store.


> As far as glasses, if they are offering them cheap enough to make it
> worth buying them, I'd question the quality.  If you just need some
> reading glasses, then I'd just go buy off the shelf glasses from the
> local drugstore if money is the driving force.  A bad prescription
> lense will give you some mighty nasty headaches!

Well, they are cheaper than local optical shops...for example...
Walmart quoted me $413 for the lenses and the frames I liked were $165.
 Because my lens are so hefty, I can't have just any frame, and because
I need bifocals, I have to have a tall lens.  Anyway, that would $578
plus tax.
I paid $615 or so for the ones I am wearing now, and I got them from a
local optician, no big chains within 1.5 hour drive.
I haven't picked out frames from Global Eye, but they want $230 for the
lenses I need.  That is much better than $413.


> DH buys contacts through 1-800-contacts or whatever the heck it is.
> The lenses have always been right and the one time there was a
> problem, they immediately sent you two pair to replace the one pair.

I can no longer wear contacts, but I used to get them through the same
company.  I never had a problem.

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not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race"

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