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A Great Money Saving Concept For Cheaper Spectacles

27th September, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Buy your specs on-line for the best cost

I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe how much it costs to get my specs replaced. I’m not sure if it’s a bit of a scam or what, but I used to go to an eye doctor who would always tweak my prescription – just to get my vision perfect. That sounded great, except that it cost me a lot of hard cash. I then learnt that you can actually get the same specs that he was recommending for me, but at a much lower cost.

Historically, the traditional way of purchasing your specs was to go to your eye doctor and ask them to check your vision. They would then issue you with a prescription and recommend that you needed specs. They would then take you to the retail side of their store and charge you exhorbitant fees for your new specs, with a range of add ons. This expensive model of purchasing specs has been challenged with more modern, internet based methods of buying your specs, which are much cheaper.

So, the key steps for this strategy are to go to a retail eye doctor and have an upto date eye check done. Then you need to ask them for a copy of your optical prescription. They have to give it to you – although they are likely to resist. Then you can use that prescription to fill out your on-line purchase.

After you have the copy of your prescription, you’ll be able to search through the countless frames of prescription spectacles that on-line stores offer and pick the ones that you want. This will ensure the size of the frame is similar to the one that you’re presently wearing. Most frame sizes are marked clearly on them. The first number for the dimensions reports the width of the eye size, and the next number shows the width of the nose bridge.

The final task is to transfer your lens prescription across, so that they can customise your lenses to your prescripted needs. If you are worried about your ability to do this, they often let you phone them and then you have a real person to guide you through this section.

To save a huge percentage of your costs on buying specs on-line, you should look to this technique. It will allow you to keep buying the specs you want, but at a far lower cost. Just order and wait for your specs to be posted you in a few days.