The glasses I had before my current ones I got at Walmart. The current ones are from Costco. Costco is 100% better for price and service.
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THAT's the debate.
If it's true, then we need to add the gas station, the supermarket, the insurance companies and most certainly the Town Hall to the list. (One local town raised property taxes by 30%, and my boat insurance doubled)
UncleEd
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Since Walmart is an interstate operation, I believe this extortion becomes a federal offense. And it's no doubt a multi-state policy which the DOJ should investigate. It might involve hundreds of dollars per year.
We should start a GoFundMe.
Private practice here too. They use the same frames I’ve worn and liked for years.
No Xi JinpingMart here.
I understand principle’s, but I’m way too busy to worry about $10.
And the charge has been around for many years.
Walmart is okay. But if you want great customer service, go somewhere else.
And the charge has been around for many years.
Walmart is okay. But if you want great customer service, go somewhere else.
Jeff423
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I may be missing some facts here, but years ago I had a friend who was a optician. I wanted to replace the lenses in some frames I liked. He had to get a template/pattern from the frame manufacturer and then grind the lenses that were the closest fit for that frame to fit my frame.
Could that be what's going on here? Or something similar?
Could that be what's going on here? Or something similar?
Alk8944
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There is a good and valid reason they charge extra to use your frames! Even if the frames came from Walmart previously there is no guarantee that the shape of the lunettes is the same as what they currently receive even from the same maker! There is a good chance that the rim of the new lenses will have to be ground specially to fit the older frames! This entails extra time and labor! They aren't cheating you, you are just being paranoid!
YeshuaIsa53
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Got a little upset with WM, seemingly because I used to do that. Brought in my wife's eyeglasses, as the screw they replaced once before had lost its threads. The guy asked me "Don't you have a screwdriver?" I could stick a screwdriver between both lenses and the top eyewires. I told him each lense would have received a red X and gone into the bad lenses box, yet he bent the frame a wee bit and stuck that loong screw in there.
That job needed a little hand beveling and/or a different pattern. So The wife fixed them herself when he refused to. He told me there was nobody there with a license at the time so he couldn't try to mess with them.
Boring, but it gets better. Went and ordered myself a new pair of lenses that they called Transitions in plastic at a really nice store with nice people. They used not make photochromic lenses in plastic and were over $300 just for the lenses. I ordered clear.
Told her how important it was I get a 63 near PD. When they came and she called, I went with a plastic MM rule. 66 MMs. I could tell by just looking at them they were wide. She said they had found out the PD
(interpupillary distance) was not that important.
Thinking about this, maybe the finisher had made decentration marks on his worksheet. Gave her another $130 and asked for the transitions next time. I waited three weeks. They came with a near PD of 60, but someone tilted the lenses outwards to make it read 60.5. Had her straighten them, and it was 60. I shook my head and left with them. They are sitting in an eyeglass case somewhere, as I never use them. $370 for lenses only.
Buyers beware. At least you can see $10. They have a responsibility to insure your eyeglasses are within tolerance. I asked for the optometrist to neutralize, or write the prescription in existing lenses, but there was not someone there that could do it.
I'll try a different WalMart next time, if they are still in business. At least I get a good price. I sure do miss finishing and final inspection. Miss my friends, too.
That job needed a little hand beveling and/or a different pattern. So The wife fixed them herself when he refused to. He told me there was nobody there with a license at the time so he couldn't try to mess with them.
Boring, but it gets better. Went and ordered myself a new pair of lenses that they called Transitions in plastic at a really nice store with nice people. They used not make photochromic lenses in plastic and were over $300 just for the lenses. I ordered clear.
Told her how important it was I get a 63 near PD. When they came and she called, I went with a plastic MM rule. 66 MMs. I could tell by just looking at them they were wide. She said they had found out the PD
(interpupillary distance) was not that important.
Thinking about this, maybe the finisher had made decentration marks on his worksheet. Gave her another $130 and asked for the transitions next time. I waited three weeks. They came with a near PD of 60, but someone tilted the lenses outwards to make it read 60.5. Had her straighten them, and it was 60. I shook my head and left with them. They are sitting in an eyeglass case somewhere, as I never use them. $370 for lenses only.
Buyers beware. At least you can see $10. They have a responsibility to insure your eyeglasses are within tolerance. I asked for the optometrist to neutralize, or write the prescription in existing lenses, but there was not someone there that could do it.
I'll try a different WalMart next time, if they are still in business. At least I get a good price. I sure do miss finishing and final inspection. Miss my friends, too.
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YeshuaIsa53
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I made many patterns every week. It was not that difficult, and pattern blanks not that expensive. Grinding lenses is different from edging lenses.
What's going on here is less training, higher tolerances, and back when we had to work in a lab for two years before we could test for a license. Some folk have attitudes when you look at them funny while they sit in their opticians' chair on their cell phone slouched down.
Fact is, where has all the pride gone to make something perfect? All about the money and changes in society.
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Breaking News.!
Just read that Walmart Optical is shutting down due to decline in sales.
Just read that Walmart Optical is shutting down due to decline in sales.
YeshuaIsa53
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On the road again.
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CAJUNLAWYER
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That was me not too long ago.....Now I REALLY TRY not to let little things work me up into the frenzy that they otherwise would have done in the past.
I even quit getting pissy when the waitress brings me $63.00 change from a hundred on a $36.98 bill. Life is too short and for all of us it gets shorter every day-hell a lot of us can see the flags waiving at the finish line
I even quit getting pissy when the waitress brings me $63.00 change from a hundred on a $36.98 bill. Life is too short and for all of us it gets shorter every day-hell a lot of us can see the flags waiving at the finish line
If you have frames you like, whether plastic or metal, and if you can order new lenses to fit those specific frames, the lenses are easy to install yourself. (There are YouTube videos on this.)
With my shooting glasses, at my optician's advice I bought prescription lenses for safety glasses frames that focussed between the front sight and the target. After a year, I decided to try lenses with my dominant eye focussed on the front sight and my other eye on the target, another approach I read about. So I ordered those from my optician, and had them installed in the original frames
Trying the new ones out, I was not sure if I preferred the second set of lenses over the first, so I decided to buy an identical safety glasses frame, which I found on eBay, and install the first set of lenses in them. When the eBay set arrived, I popped out the lenses that were in them, and popped in my own original lenses.
I've been going back and forth between the two sets of glasses with identical frames. Still have not made up my mind.
With my shooting glasses, at my optician's advice I bought prescription lenses for safety glasses frames that focussed between the front sight and the target. After a year, I decided to try lenses with my dominant eye focussed on the front sight and my other eye on the target, another approach I read about. So I ordered those from my optician, and had them installed in the original frames
Trying the new ones out, I was not sure if I preferred the second set of lenses over the first, so I decided to buy an identical safety glasses frame, which I found on eBay, and install the first set of lenses in them. When the eBay set arrived, I popped out the lenses that were in them, and popped in my own original lenses.
I've been going back and forth between the two sets of glasses with identical frames. Still have not made up my mind.
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The issue seems to be that WM failed to explain what the $10 was for. It's not a junk fee or a tax, it's the cost of extra stuff that the customer is probably unaware of when trying to re-use frames. But most low-information WM customers won't comprehend that, so they just say it's a $10 fee.
OP
My Frames are NEW in Package.
They are labeled Prescription Ready.
These frames and were sold to me, for future use,
by the same Walmart Optical location.
Bekeart
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Aha! The 'Industry Standard', except in this case the OP is supplying frames with no lenses, so where is the extra work?
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