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When I wanted to start using contact lenses, they gave me a pair of those that last one month for free to try them out, I didn't find them entirely comfortable so they gave another pair of another brand, and a third one. Then I started again on another place, and another, I think I went a full year without paying for contact lenses.
you wouldn't download contact lenses.. /jk
Absolutely.
Me right now
Worked as a lab manager for some of those one hour shops to pay for college. The drs would tell me horror stories where people would go to the strip malls and get these cheap “contact” lenses that had smiley faces or some shit on them. They wear them then swap them with friends. Basically not taking hygiene into account. They’d get some serious eye infections. Like nearly lose your sight serious eye infections.
Oh wow, another former optical lab tech in the wild.
I switched fields years ago and I'm glad I did. Visiting glasses shops today, there's almost no on-site lab to speak of anymore. Maybe some finishing machines, but I haven't seen a full surface lab in years.
I don't have anything to add to the contact lens story except - wow, that's nasty.
The optometrists over here change an extra fee for lens fittings on top of the fee for an eye exam. I think it's $80 for us after insurance.
This might be specific to Spain then. I don't know how the shop that sells prescription glasses is called, here they are called óptica. Their margins are big enough that they don't charge you for the eye exam, the fitting or the test contacts.
In America, they have the big profit margin, AND they still have up charges for everything else. It's the American way.
Years ago, before everybody had a printer with a scanner, I went into Staples to have a document scanned. They charged me $10, scanned my document, returned my document, and said Thank You.
I asked for a copy of my scan, but that was another $15. I had assumed that the original $10 also included a copy of the scan on some form of media, but No, the $10 was just to scan it into their computer. It was another $15 to take it home with me.
That's how things are done in America.
Wow.
A long time ago, before car keys with buttons were common, I had a car with one key with buttons. They didn't work well, so I went to the relevant dealership to get another key.
They charged me $80 and gave me another key, which admittedly did have functional buttons, but in so doing they further broke the original key - the buttons no longer worked at all. They then told me that I should not have expected to pay $80 and come out with more than I'd brought in.
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. The first time I went to that dealership, I asked to test drive one of their cars ... The salesperson to whom I spoke claimed that they didn't have any license plates to spare while visibly holding one in his hands.