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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

Bev,
Those prices sound about the same as here in TN.  My daughter just got her 
first pair of bifocals and needed the same as you or else the lenses are coke 
bottles and weigh a ton, besides looking bad.  Her glasses have always been 
expensive, even as a child.  Eyes are precious things, scrimp somewhere else. 
 Sometimes that is easier said than done, but like I said eyes are precious 
things!
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
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  Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [Homestead] Glasses from India




  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"

  ~ Calvin Coolidge
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