I have never bought glasses before, this seemed expensive, but perhaps reasonable. So I am thinking that would be $ 320 - $72 (30% discount) - $135 (insurance) = $113. Cool! Luckily, LensCrafters was having a 30% off sale on frame + lens combos. In such a situation insurance pays $135 and I pay $185 for a pair of glasses. Anyway, "Insurance" gives me $50 off of lenses, $40 off frames, $45 off coating. She says, "No one has ever asked me that before". I ask sales rep what's in the anti-reflective coating to make it so expensive. Minimum price for cheapest lenses was $140.
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Sales-rep directs me to the "cheapest", full price frames, which start at $100. (Even though I think they are supposed to be separate business entities in CA and that this relationship runs afoul of the intent of the law). After the doctor was finished, he physically handed me off to a Lenscrafter sales rep. Now I get to see what this EyeMed "insurance" gets me in terms of lenses, frames, coatings, etc. I get a prescription for -0.25, -0.25 in each eye.
Apparently, with the regular pupil dilation, pictures are not normally possible, or so I was told. I told him I would buy it if he provided me with a copy of the scan on a thumb drive. He tried to sell me on the advanced eye scan again and I suckered up. He did the usual routine, albeit late, in a manner that was rushed and forcibly friendly, and with a breath reeking of cigarette smoke. Then, the psychology student handed me off to the optometrist. Then, she tried to sell me on an "advanced" eye scan that was an extra $39 and provided the same information as a pupil dilation. She gave six attempts at measuring eye pressure, but ultimately "gave up". She had a hard time adjusting the instruments properly and was frequently jerking my head around and knocking it against the instruments. I thinks she was fairly new to operating these instruments, but she had no guidance from a mentor or such. A UCSD psychology student ran me through the ancillary optical tests such as peripheral vision, eye pressure, etc. I went into a LensCrafters on Saturday because it was the closest "In-Network" optical provider for EyeMed. Here is an e-mail I received from a friend:
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