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- From: lcarros@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com (Leo Carros)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Eye Glass Frames
- Message-ID: <185120@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:51:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.224823.2262@radford.vak12ed.edu>
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- Reply-To: lcarros@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com (Leo Carros)
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- Organization: Pyramid Technologies, Mt. View, California.
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- In article <1993Jan23.224823.2262@radford.vak12ed.edu>,
- mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu (Melissa N. Matusevich) writes:
- |> Does anyone know why eye glass frames are so expensive? They
- |> are mostly plastic and surely, there's not as much technology
- |> involved as in a calculator which costs $5.00.
- |>
- |> Most eye glass frames now cost well over $100!!! WHY?????
- |>
- This reminds me of a "60 Minutes" program back in the sixties.
-
- The program was about the cost of glasses.
-
- In one section where they asked an optomitrist how he priced glasses
- he said" I try to wait until I am placing the frames on their face.
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- I then tell them that these cost $25. If their pupils do not dilate
- I say "for the frames". I then say the lenses are $25 and again if
- their pupils do not dilate I tell them each.
-
- Leo...
-