It depends on the location, and the individual person, as to the
availability of the PD. I'm a southern boy, and can turn on the old
southern charm...I get the PD every time. Some others are not so lucky.
In some states, and I believe in at least one province in Canada, the PD is
a mandated part of the prescription. Everywhere else it's a crap shoot.
Check the list archives for the details.
-- Chuck Knight
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:30 PM, RedStickHam <[email protected]> wrote:
> I asked for it after my exam as well and was told "I'm not allowed to
> give you that." I didn't push the issue since I already had it from
> another optometrist as I went to WalMart for a second opinion because
> that optometrist messed up my wife's prescription so badly it wasn't
> even funny.
>
> The first optometrist's office had a printed tape from the machine
> that did the air puff and that said 62, and I had measured my own
> using a printed ruler from a glasses site and got 63. When the staff
> measured me with a ruler, they gave me 59/56, so I'm not sure who is
> right. Even though they had several pupillary distance readers, they
> said the batteries were dead in all of them so they had to measure
> with a ruler. I have used 62 and 63 and they both seem to be fine.
>
> Someone on the blog listed pdruler.com as selling what they call the
> "perfect PD ruler," so I've ordered one. It's costing me around $9
> with shipping(the shipping is twice the price of the ruler), but I'd
> like to know for sure what my PD is, and what I save with online
> glasses more than pays for it.
>
> RedStickham
>
> On Aug 30, 4:27 pm, jlcinc <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm in Toronto and went to WallMart and they said they would give my
> > PD but they had a $25.00 fee after my $70 eye exam. I measured my own
> > and bought 3 pairs from Zenni Optical because I didn't want to spend
> > to much until I was sure my PD was correct. 2 weeks now and all I can
> > say is that the glasses are great. I just ordered 3 more pairs. The
> > first 3 came via FedEx in ten days so I am waiting for the next 3
> > pairs, wow 6 pairs of glasses including 1 pair of sunglasses and with
> > two delivery charges the total was $106.00.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Aug 27, 2:27 pm, fran <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > took my son into Walmart today for an eye exam. Requested the PD
> > > afterward when we were looking at frames. Refused to give it to me
> > > even if we bought glasses. Stated, "it's a liability issue". When
> > > they measured his PD, I could read it from the machine and the guy did
> > > evntually confirm it but would only do so after we had bought frames.
> > > I'll never buy glasses there again.- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
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