On Aug 27, 1:27 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.
We were able to get the PD from a WalMart but now we suspect it isn't right. My wife tried to get glasses made at WalMart, but they only offer lenses up to 1.67 index and she wanted 1.74 index. They used one of those PD readers that is like a pair of binoculars or something like that. They gave her 29.5 in one eye, 32.5 in the other, total 62. I measured her PD with a ruler and got 59, which made more sense to me than what WalMart gave her, but with her correction, she went with what the machine gave her. She had a pair made using that PD and now she has some vision issues in the eye with the higher number. If she shifts the glasses a little, the problem goes away so it looks like they gave her a bad PD. I think the lady who read the PD wasn't sure what she was doing. I think she was a trainee because another employee was instructing her. Since our regular optician retired due to health reasons, we were in search of an alternative for her. My prescription is fairly weak(-3.5 is my highest correction) so online buying may have been a good option for me, but she's a -11 and I recommended onilne for her only as a last resort if she couldn't find the lenses she wanted to get locally at a price that wasn't too expensive. We found SimplyEyeglasses.com and had them relens a frame she already had and although they did a good job and weren't too expensive, the PD is a problem. Online glasses buying has its pitfalls I guess. RedStickHam -- Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en
