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From: lindley@ut-ngp.UUCP (John L. Templer)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Eyeglass frames--why so expensive?
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 17:16:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 17:16:13 1985
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>   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."