Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!lindley From: lindley@ut-ngp.UUCP (John L. Templer) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Eyeglass frames--why so expensive? Message-ID: <1289@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 17:16:13 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1289 Posted: Thu Feb 7 17:16:13 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 04:44:32 EST References: <1068@opus.UUCP> <6400032@hp-pcd.UUCP> Organization: U.Texas Physics Department; Austin, Texas Lines: 18 > Your eye doctor is required to give you a copy of your prescription after an > exam so that you can shop around and buy the glasses where you want. Ha! Try doing that at PSO sometime! Twice I had an eye examination at one PSO outlet. Both times, when I told the optometrist that I intended to look elsewhere for the frames, he said: "We preffer not to do examinations unless you buy the glasses here." In other words, they allow you to take the prescription and comparison shop, but they make it plain that they think they don't have to. -- John L. Templer University of Texas at Austin {allegra,gatech,seismo!ut-sally,vortex}!ut-ngp!lindley "and they called it, yuppy love."