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New glasses? The unsightly world of optometry retailing - Michael West (michaelwest.com.au)
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Have you ever walked into an outlet like OPSM, Specsavers, Bailey Nelson, or Laubman & Pank for an eye test and left feeling like you’d been gently pressured into spending $500 on a pair of glasses?

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[B]osses impose onto optometrists a variety of targets – whether its “converting” eye tests into sales or increasing rates of certain types of tests.

This type of pressure is reportedly causing many optometrists “significant moral distress” and some are starting to fight back.

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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah before I got Lasik I would always buy my glasses overseas (where I lived at the time), despite usually getting the tests done here. It was much cheaper that way.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 3 months ago

How did lasik go? Doing well? Would you recommend it?

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah it went really well for me. It was a strange experience at first, not having glasses. I kept reflexively wanting to push them back up my nose, for weeks. And it took nearly a year before I could eat hot food without reflexively wanting to take off my glasses to avoid them fogging up. But I'm nearly 8 years on now and am so glad I don't have to wear them anymore, especially during exercise.

I got it done in Vietnam, where the total cost was half of what the per-eye cost would have been in Australia. That was at an expensive by local standards place, which caters mainly to wealthy expats.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 3 months ago

Awesome! I'm glad it worked out for you.

I got my last eye exam in vietnam... and orders the glasses to be delivered from Shenzhen. small world!

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