Replacement lenses for old glasses frames.

Fine by me, especially as a customer rates you and will continue to use you.

I had rather too many looseners last night and was quite slow to get going to day.

Some of the best and most durable frames that I have are from pound-ish shops. I can see that an optician needs to cover costs - even an optometrist has several years of training to pay for. My last pairs were from Vision Express and when the initial ones were a bit iffy I was retested by another optometrists, the frames re-lensed and now they're good.

Interestingly when I broke my frame which cost over £100, they had the same frame in the shop and replaced it for £12. I guess profit margins on frames must be enormous.

Jonathan

You can easily make amends by offering a suitable discount to NG users. I have suffered terribly from your post. Had I seen it last night, I'd undoubtedly have had nightmares.

How about 20%? :)

Must be the way they are driven. BTW I have broken every pair of glasses RDS has sold me. All work related accidents there was nothing wrong with the glasses in normal use.

Paying cash nudge nudge.

what, like a code "ukdiy20"

Don't have nightmares tonight.

You're a sport. So, I won't stick it on HUKD. It's like a DDoS attack on your website, although you do get lots of business. :)

I am a member of a couple of forums where businesses do offer a discount. They are nothing to do with the forums, but recognise that they've got a good way of free advertising to a group that are likely to be interested.

SteveW

It is clearly not the same rule everywhere. I was having trouble finding a suitable new pair within the last month, and they specifically mentioned the option of a re-glaze as a potential solution.

Chris

If you hadn't posted your link, I might have done so. :-) In the past few weeks you supplied a new pair of frameless glasses. For various reasons, my extremely old ones (which you supplied a long time ago) had been replaced with framed. But have gone back to you with a new prescription and gone frameless again.

Excellent service. The new glasses are just so much nicer to wear than framed - and incredibly light. Somehow the relationship of the lens to my eye is nicer. When I put my framed ones on it is like a lurch from no glasses to glasses. But with the frameless there is no lurch - I simply see better.

Certainly is. When I broke my glasses 3 days before a funeral I got replacement parts through the post with no questions asked about payment. I sorted that later when I was in Blackburn.

I have always been a bit curious about this aspect - how you determine the correct shape for the lens so that it will fit a given frame. I have seen the machines working and presume that for 'known' frames you get some sort of CAD file to work from. However it must also be possible to measure up a frame and create the CAD file from that.

I've occasionally had less than brilliant results for reglazing (not talking about you, Rick!) and wondered how much guesswork might be involved. Thicker prescriptions, and/or lenses with lower refractive index, seem to be more problematic. I imagine there is a Youtube video or two on the subject...

Glad the thread seems to be working out for you BTW!

jon N

Piece of piss these days, not a lot of skill required..

We've one of these,

I remember seeing a shop, not unlike a Vision Express or Specsavers, in a city somewhere (not sure if it was Europe or the US, I suspect the former) where they had the lens fitting machines in the shop. You could see them from the front window. I assume you could have a test, pick the frames, and (assuming they had some lens in stock etc), they were made up more or less immediately.

Just how long it took from request to make to finish I don't know, I only watched for a few moments while Senior Management was looking at something or other (probably shoes!).

There are quite a few "standard" sizes for lenses.