Re: 39 dollar glasses

On 4/28/06 7:05 AM, in article
%ip4g.70625$H71.6671@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "William Stacy"
<wstacy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

CatmanX wrote:
I can sell you a left lens for $39.00.

dr grant

I recieved a pair of lenses for a patient yesterday and the lab invoice
was $229.

My wholsale cost on the frame was $120.

What do you think I should charge the patient?

w.stacy, o.d.

(trivex photochromatic progressives with super AR in a Silhouette
rimless...)

What is so special about the lenses that your cost ($229) is that high? If I
were to get a pair of lenses from one of those cheap guys, what would I lose
out on?

To me, not in the optometric field, it strikes me that getting
ophthalmologic lens blanks from B&L or whoever makes them these days and
edging them for $39 is not unreasonable. Hype that raises the price may be.

Although I no longer use single vision lenses I would be happy to do without
photochromaticity or progressiveness, and all the other cosmetic stuff. I
would like to get good anti-reflective coagtings, but I have not been able
to find anyone who still applies hot coatings to glass. I do without.

Bill
-- Ferme le Bush


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