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[rivet]

Glasses are bloody expensive in this country. I just paid $475 for an exam and new lenses.

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[anonymous]

Yep. And they used to take weeks to deliver.

Have you checked to see if work will pay anything towards it? My work pays for a yearly checkup and a couple of hundred towards the glasses.

[laoke]

As mentioned above, drop a line to your OSH nazis and see if there's a health and safety subsidy for glasses. I know there was one at MFAT.

[rivet]

I know that work will reimburse me for some of it, I'll soon find out how much.

[pombagira]

ouch... and i need new lenses soon... and eye exam.. and i was considering those polorid? darken in the sunshine lesnes...

hmmm....

[pombagira]

ohhh.. interesting....

gosh.. maybe i could get some sunglasses to... *ponders this*

[starlajo]

second that!

[rivet]

I have strongly considered it, even though I would prefer to be able to try things on. I needed the exam in any case, and I needed to replace the scratched lenses in my current glasses. I will definitely be looking there for a replacement pair.

[thirstygirl]

yeah, i have some pairs from there you can try on for sampling purposes!

[hoodooyoudo]

Government agencies usually get a much better deal than we get in local government, in terms of subsidies for eye exams + glasses, and ours are still fairly good. I suspect you will have had to talk to them first then go to an approved supplier though.

[rivet]

I got my pre-authorisation aaaages ago, but haven't gotten around to it til now.

[rivet]

I got the work paperwork, but they didn't say anything about approved suppliers...