At 11:57 AM 5/13/2011, YES NOPE9 wrote: >I went yesterday for an eye exam. Which revealed I am getting older. >My insurance covers $150 toward frames. I found that the frames I=20 >liked were $384 USD. There were more expensive frames. I was=20 >amazed at how little you get for the buck or rather how much you=20 >could pay for a 50 grams of metal and plastic. The eye doctor put a=20 >lot of pressure on me to buy some glasses. > >Does anyone know the breakdown of who receives portions of that $384=20 >? How much to the vision center, how much to a distributor , how=20 >much to the manufacturer ? No idea about information regarding your questions. But I've been=20 purchasing my glasses from Walmart. I get the eye exam done at the=20 same place I've been going to for a couple of decades now but I just=20 can't justify paying their prices for the glasses themselves. My last several pairs of glasses have been darned cheap:=20 single-vision safety glasses for just over $100 per pair. My wife=20 hates them because they are so big but I'm thrilled with them (they=20 ARE safety glasses). I would guess that they have stopped=20 projectiles from possibly hitting my eyes perhaps 3 or 4 times over=20 the past 10 years or so. Walmart does have expensive frames but they do have inexpensive=20 frames that also look pretty decent. dwayne PS - does anyone know of a supplier who will supply eyeglasses with=20 magnetic-attach modifier lenses? I've seen eyeglasses with=20 magnet-attach sun shades but what I want is to have a single-vision=20 set of glasses suited for short distance work, then attach the=20 modifier lens for long distance vision. Yeah - I'm getting to the=20 age where I should be wearing bi-focal glasses. The reason I ask is that the optometrist I use will often create a=20 temporary set of lenses in his test eyeglasses frame, then add lenses=20 to that assembly to test the other prescription. That suggests that=20 this should be possible. But - I get blank stares when I ask for something like this. dwayne --=20 Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax www.trinity-electronics.com Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .