T123VOR

iTrader: (2)

I went for an eye-test today -i need to wear glasses!!

Alright so do most people but

Is it easy to adjust? (i'm 30)

Is it worth paying for expensive ones - and by jebus they are quite expensive!

Will i get called names?


Cheers


Trevor


PS The big letters are a joke- it wont happen again

Clarebabes

Yes you speccy git

mart360

welcome to its a rip off !!

if you dont mind the look then vision express will do a stylish plastic pair for around £100

otherwise its the emporers new clothes, as "consultants" try to sell you the latest frames & accessories

it add up, and that cheap frame, suddenly costs about £300 when you add the lenses/ tints/ anti fog coating/ x ray vision (joking)


Mart

Bubba po

You certainly do. You couldn't read which forum you wanted to post in for a start.

drew_peacock

Ladies that need glasses generally give better head

T123VOR

iTrader: (2)

I did pay for some kind of anti-reflection something or other

Opto said as i work in front of a computer all day i'd need it

The big con has clearly started already

Oh dear

Trevor

7 Foot

Don't panic Moley just pick a pair you like.

7 Foot

The anti-reflective coatng is well worth it. You did the right thing.

Trucker Ted

My missus went to specsavers,there doing designer frames with lenses for £125 for two pairs,which isn't too bad.

Heres a free pair of sunglasses

dpb

Rip-off you bet...!.
your run of the mill frames are imported from china at 10p a shot. lenses whacked and sold to you sir for 100 notes...

SWRTWannabe

Have you considered contact lenses? I had to wear glasses from the age of 7, and went to contact lenses about 11 years ago - wouldn't go back to glasses now unless I had to for medical reasons.

Nobody called me names since I had lenses either

T123VOR

iTrader: (2)

Cheers all

We'll just see tomorrow then (literally hahahahah) you see i can laugh about it















Thanks All

Trevor

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

I went today and my prescription is the same as it was 5 years ago, dont need new glasess but spent 90 quid on disposable lenses, if you do get specs get some really nice ones otherwise you wont wear them, i.e. by the ones you want not the ones you can afford, mine cost 400 quid, Hoya rimless with the best lenses I could get, they checked today and on the 4th of April I will have had them 5 years !

You four eyed speccy **** !

7 Foot

I wear fortnightly disposables and love them.

They are great for sport, being able to rest your head on your hand or a pillow without bending anything (glasses frame), and after rolling in battered at stupid o'clock Saturday night, I awoke next morning to find two bits of dried up, crinkly plastic on my bedside table. I was clearly to polluted to operate my lens pot so just threw my lenses at it - not a problem, I just opened a new pair.

little-ginge

I wear c/lenses - they are great!


Seeing the comments on rip off specs, I thin I have seen billboards in fields on the side of the motorways, advertising glasses for ridiculous sums like £15 a pair.. they must be really good ones

fast bloke

Look on the bright side - I went for an eye est and the cute bird that tested them told me there was no point in me wearing glasses cos they wouldn't help

lubo

contact lenses rock. ive got the day n night ones u take out once a week and they are brilliant can sleep in them n everything. Hated glasses 2 much hassle with helmets hehe

mpr

just get them lasered - the best thing I ever did. It cost me 600 quid, a couple of days of pain, and now I've got perfect vision. So after a few years I'll actually be in profit as a set of glasses used to cost me 300+

MattW

Don't wear glasses, thank ****, don't know how you guys put up with contacts!!

7 Foot

When the alternative is falling out of my bedroom window or walking out in front of a bus it's no-brainer.

I found it weird the first time but you get used to them so quickly.

ScoobyDoo555

When I found out that I had to wear glasses, I made a conscious decision to buy some designer ones (Dolce & Gabbana), because as a kid, I got teased with the National Health scaffolding-frames

I did it because I didn't want to feel self-conscious about my glasses. Glad I did it, as now I'm mature and grown up, I realise that it isn't important

Couldn't wear contacts though, as the thought up putting my fingers in my eyes makes me quite ill

Dan

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

What about windscreen wipers are they standard or do they cost extra

TopBanana

Is it just today or every Wednesday you need glasses?

7 Foot

The only downside to wearing contacts i have found is that my blink reflex is now crap.

The amount of slow moving objects that hit me in the eyes because I'm so used to touching them is ridiculous.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

I was told I needed glasses a few years back after an eye test. So I pulled down my pants and purchased a pair.

Couldn't get used to them, they were comfy to wear, but the lenses played havoc with my vision. As I have perfect vision in my left eye but short sight in my right eye. I just could not focus on anything from afar with either eye whilst wearing these glasses.

This was worrying as I was "supposed" to wear them whilst driving, yet I could not focus on numberplates at the minimum distance. And reading monitors and letters just gave me a headache (which I didn't get before).

I complained, had a few tests, they found nothing wrong. They were the correct lenses in their opinion.

I gave up, chucked them in the drawer and haven't bothered with any tests since. And I wrote off the £200 plus wasted time and headaches as a lesson learnt....ain't broke...don't fix

Perhaps I'm wrong, or just a freak of nature (my right eye has suffered several nasty impacts that IMO have caused my sight in my right eye to deteriorate)...or it could be the several opticians I visited were after a few bob by exaggerating my eye condition.

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I wear contact lenses everyday, do have a pair of glasses but always think I look a bit of a **** in them

Definately worth looking into getting them.

chop

Mrs ESC

Yes it is a rip off. My son has glasses. what makes me mad is that he can get his lens free, and when he picks his frames (last time quicksilver) and for a frame costing £145 he can have them for £35 how is that then. He will be 15 next month and not looking forward to he having to pay full price. Also he would love contacts but he eyes are bad so he can only have the hard lenses £95 a pair. and if he cant get on with them what a waste of money.

7 Foot

How bad are his eyes?

Mine are a wopping -7 and I have no problem.

comic cuts

Get your new specs PPP'd after you've run them in for a bit. This fine tunes your eyes for totty spotting at greater distances than with the standard specs. Make sure it's a genuine kit mind you or your warranty will be affected. Certain specs can also benefit from an STi rear spoiler being fitted (at the rear of the frames) to give increased stability whilst running away from said bit of totty's bloke.



CC

Glencora

I love my contacts and wouldnt change them - unless of course I save enough money to have the laser thing done. I have day and nights which you can sleep in and I only take them out once a month to replace them.

Pure genius! most of the time I forget I even wear contacts.