Does anyone go to

[crystal**flake]

Spec savers???

Are they any cheaper than the private/owner optometrists?

[monman12]

Yes, cheaper,  (Optical Superstore) and little if any cost for their basic frames. However, some better frames cost extra.

I am tough on glasses, so I  have obtained my optical script from the Superstore and will try an OS online order with a titanium flexible frame that here costs a few hundred dollars.

[crystal**flake]

Thank you Monman, I'm going to give them a try next time I want new frames.

I just got new ones the other day and they cost me $175 and thats for  a cheaper looking pair.

[foxette-in-sox]

Buy your frames on the internet-overseas is much cheaper than in au.

Then get your prescription lenses from Optical Superstore as they came in around half the price of Spec Savers when I obtained a few quotes just 2 months ago !

[mlor16]

I think some of the smaller optometrists are offering similar deals as Specsavers now. I paid $250 (all up) for two pairs of reading glasses a couple of months ago. That was at a small optometrist that I have been going to for years. My husband got his at Specsavers about a year ago and he paid exactly the same price for two pairs as well. Big W do them now too but I don't know how much they charge.

[mainecoon1]

crystal  I have been told that Spec Savers is the budget store of OPSM.

I used them last year and was not happy with the service, they seem to employ a lot of people but unfortunately none of them seem to know what they were doing.  Even though I had an appointment I had to wait 20 minutes after the appointment time to see the optometrist as they forgot about me.

When I got my glasses back they had the wrong prescription in them the person who served me insisted that they were the right ones and that my eyes need to adjust to them when I told them they were wrong and I would not pay for them the said they would send them back.  I had to wait another 2 weeks for my glasses and I am still not happy with them but thought I would just make do until later on this year when I will go to a none budget optometrist.

[crystal**flake]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I didn't think to look  online for frames or shop around.  I always felt obligated to buy from my regular optometrist.  Now I know.

[bright.ton42]

A friend of mine just got her specs from them and they have a good policy 

of free exchange if you don't like them for three months.  

She didn't like her first pair and took them back, and chose a new

pair, no questions asked. 

My local smallish optician is good and they have a one month exchange

policy which I used, and got another pair.  I think what my friend ended up 

paying at Specsavers for good frames (not the budget) worked out to the same 

as me at the private one.  She also said the service was good. 

[id-to-post-anything]

I have used them

If you need pretty straight forward glasses, ie basic frame and stock lenses, then they are pretty cheap. If you want/need, high index lenses, thin lenses, ones that darken in the sun, tinting etc, then they were more expensive than Masterspecs, whom i usually use.

Also, the lenses are made overseas and they ended up taking a month to come in. I was not happy

[**meep**]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I didn't think to look  online for frames or shop around.  I always felt obligated to buy from my regular optometrist.  Now I know.

Me too.  My optometrist has really good quality but rather expensive frames. I saw him a couple of months ago and contemplated getting my new frames from Spec Savers but at the end of the day, you get what you pay for.  He was more than happy to offer me a great deal for a pair of designer frames with photochromic and anti-reflective lenses after I mentioned that this time I would shop around 😉