I picked up my new pair of glasses today - $630. It had been four years since my last eye-test and also the nose-piece on the current trendy, frame-less, titanium pair had broken off (titanium is expensive, light-weight, but tends to fatigue and can't be easily repaired). So it was overdue to have a new frame and lenses. The new pair isn't quite as "cool" looking as the old pair, but appears to be more robust, so it may last 5-10 years if I'm lucky. The old pair actually got repaired at no extra cost by the optometrist, so I had a good "spare" pair now.
New glasses (spectacles)
January 16th, 2007 at 02:29 pm
January 16th, 2007 at 03:42 pm 1168962144
My current pair is almost 3 years old, and is still going strong. I've bumped my head and knocked my glasses quite a few times during those years, and would have ruined a normal pair of glasses.
However, $630 sounds awfully high, though I haven't looked up the exchange rate to USD. My latest pair (which is currently stored as a back-up) costed me less than $150USD.
January 17th, 2007 at 10:40 pm 1169073650
http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com/2006/11/from-3mew-eyeglasses-stores-are-for.html