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Justification for spending a $1000 dollars on golfing eyeglasses. |
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Review below the products available in different price ranges. What you pay for is really what you get. The price estimates below are based on an average optical dispensary, and if you purchase online you should expect a 25-50% price break due to no professionals dispensing the product and no brick and mortar building to host the optical store. If you are out to find cheap products, you will not have to look very far. Realize there is a trade-off
you make when buying discount products that can not only compromise the accuracy of your vision, but may result in unwanted side effects. |
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A pair of single vision eyeglasses that retail for $49… |
It would be a pair of single vision eyeglass lenses with no added features made of regular CR39 plastic with no glare-free coatings or transitions. The frame will be a frame made from a low cost country, mass produced, and would have an average cost to the dispensary of anywhere from $3-$5. These glasses have a benefit for a person who is just looking for a generic pair of single vision eyeglasses
that will perform so they can see and their budget is very tight. It would be better than wearing a seven year old pair of glasses that is falling apart. |
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A pair of single vision eyeglasses that would retail in the $199 range… |
You could expect to go into a dispensary and buy a better grade of eyeglass lens which may
include a thinner material, a glare-free and scratch-resistant coating, possibly transitions,
with a better grade of eyeglass frame, but one that has not reached the designer level. |
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A pair of single vision eyeglasses that would retail in the $399 range… |
Starting with the lenses, you could expect to be buying a thinner design lens with a premium
anti-glare scratch-resistant coating, also possibly with an aspheric design in the lens at the
same time. The frame which most current designer line frames retail for approximately $250.
For example, Polo, Ralph Lauren, Nine West, Deisel etc. We would expect these frames to come
with a two-year manufacturer defect warranty and be current line. |
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A pair of single vision eyeglasses that would retail in the $499 range… |
You can expect to purchase a pair of single vision lenses in the newer technology thinner lens
designs, complemented with premium glare-free and scratch-resistant coatings, included aspheric
or atoric design lenses. The frame selection you could be choosing from will be more towards Gucci, Christian Dior, Silhouette group of premium frames. We would expect these frames to come with
a two-year manufacturer defect warranty and be current line. |
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A pair of single vision eyeglasses that would retail in the $999 range… |
Many people have a lot stronger prescriptions and some of them are very complex, and we have
to order very thin lenses from companies like Zeiss. Zeiss makes premium eyeglass lenses as
well as binoculars and cameras. It is not uncommon for the lenses alone to retail from $600 to $800. The eyeglass frames that you would host these lenses in, most people are looking for the higher
quality, longer lasting frames, due to the price of the lenses and the longevity of the lenses.
It would not be uncommon to host these lenses in frames that would retail from $250 to $500.
We know that this is more of a unique situation but it really does exist, and for people with
really strong myopic or hyperopic conditions don’t feel spending $1000 on a pair of glasses
is unheard of due to the benefits and the features of these premium glasses. |
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A pair of bifocal eyeglasses that retail in the $100 range… |
You could expect to receive a pair of lined bifocals, possibly with a scratch-resistant coating on it,
and a generic design of frame, or even possibly a discontinued quality frame. The lenses would not
have any premium features like glare-free or transitions in this price range. |
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A pair of quality invisible bifocals with frames in the $199 range… |
You can expect to receive a decent quality design of progressive lens that would have been
developed most likely in the mid 1990s, and expect to have these lenses hosted in a quality
but generic design frame. There still probably wouldn’t be too much room to add premium
coatings or transitions in this price range. |
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A pair of quality invisible bifocals with frames in the $399 range… |
This area creates a lot of flexibility in the quality progressive lens designs which could also
include a premium anti-glare and scratch-resistant coating. Most of these lens designs would
be in regular quality plastic and not in the ultra-thin materials. I would expect a decent
quality of eyeglass frame, most likely not a premium designer frame. |
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A pair of invisible bifocals with frames in the $699 range… |
In this price range, you would now start to be able to expect some of the ultra-thin materials
with premium features like a quality anti-glare scratch-resistant coating, transitions.
These premium lenses could also be hosted in a decent quality designer line frame. |
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A pair of invisible bifocals with frames in the $999 range… |
Once you have reached this level, you are now giving the dispenser the freedom to choose
from many of the premium progressive lenses with quality coatings including transitions.
The frames you could expect to be in the top designer area, for example Dior, Gucci, or
the Silhouette design rimless products. Many times clip-ons can be included in this price range. Products in this range will begin to take away the side effects that come
from generic quality products. |
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A pair of invisible bifocals with frames in the $1299 range… |
This is the range where people who have not only strong prescriptions but generally very
unusual astigmatisms, that require backsurface atoric ultrathin progressive invisible bifocals
in a 1.67 index material complemented with a premium anti-glare scratch-resistant coating
that is generally also smudge-resistant and water-resistant. These lenses would also have
the progressive invisible bifocal ground on the inside of the eyeglass lens instead of being
like traditional progressives when it is ground on the outside of the eyeglass lens.
Since these lenses are worth $900 and you add a frame with a clip-on in the Christian Dior,
Gucci, Silhouette rimless design area, these frames alone retail with clip-ons for $300-$400.
People actually do need to spend this amount of money in a quality optical store to be
able to buy eyeglasses that cure their visual problems and don’t aggravate them. |
