The Spectacles Thread.

[ohj81]

Anyone knows the price range for Evisu frames and are they good? Or just normal plastic frames with a branding.

 

[Seannie]

Did u do the same lens brand and model? same power and axis etc...? If everything the same... should find out why it is blur

the only reason is that they made an error, either on their prescription when they made the order for me, or when they make the axis of the lens differ, anyway something to do with the accuracy of the power, cos very obviously i gave the correct power to them but they did not even make sure that lens are of the correct power, either that or they accepted the margin of error & suppose that i wouldnt know. In short, not reliable.

 

[Seannie]

why did u say it would last for few months?

In $200 price range depending on store...

It is quite popular and available in many stores

If the price tag is $200, that means after my optician give a 40% discount it would be $120 and for frames in such a price range usually colour or parts wear off after a few months.

For reliable frames, the price tag should be at least abt $300-400 (after less abt $200+). No matter wich shops, the after less final price range must be at least abt $200.

My optician gives 20% for top brands such as tagheuer & oakley.

 

[Seannie]

Anyone knows the price range for Evisu frames and are they good? Or just normal plastic frames with a branding.

Evisu plastic frames material are better than just normal brands becos they used a special type of plastic in making them, cant rem the exact name they called it. But anyway, many ple are wearing esp the young & the executives, male & females. With the seagull logo at the side. Price shd be ard $200.

 

[Seannie]

i dropped by kwong shin the other weekend to take a look to see how "fantastic" they claim this shop to be. I tok with the staff there, find that service is so-so, the range of frames is not that many, and for oakley they dont have the full range of models as well. The uncle behind the lens machine looked very old & the machine is a small one. It is not really that crowded on a sat evening although abt 5-6 staff in the shop. I asked them about the prices & indeed quite reasonable, comparable to my optician.

 

[tildveryn]

If the price tag is $200, that means after my optician give a 40% discount it would be $120 and for frames in such a price range usually colour or parts wear off after a few months.

For reliable frames, the price tag should be at least abt $300-400 (after less abt $200+). No matter wich shops, the after less final price range must be at least abt $200.

My optician gives 20% for top brands such as tagheuer & oakley.

I also know of some places with super good frame and lens prices... but i dont like the attitude of the person and also the skill level... e.g. same lens... outside is $260... he can charge me $90... hahaha

for eyewear hard to compare prices without the lens.. and also different place different price.. depending on skill of that optician also

Any recommendations of places in the East or central area?
reliable ones... only...

 

[tildveryn]

I was told by the person who quote me Hoya 1.74 for $580...
that instead of the normal green coating that most brands and older Hoya model use.. the new one use gold coating hence make clarity and appearance even better... therefore the high price and need to be specially ordered.. no ready stock available...

anyone could confirm this? I dont see such information online....
gold coating instead of the green...

yah i know most lens use green coating... thats true...

so is the new Hoya gold coating true?

 

[tildveryn]

Any recommendations of reliable shops in East or Central part?

 

[foxy_20]

Doesnt matter la, at least yours still HOYA lens not tat bad, can last you at least 2 years.

2years?! tats short.. im gona go back and ask for my sft coating.. and the authenticity card.

 

[Seannie]

Any recommendations of reliable shops in East or Central part?

ofcos cannot like everyting of the same shop la. If their tings good & super good biz odcos got attitude la, we cant have everyting rite? Nowadays hard to find skilled optician lei, most of them are rather careless or often rushed job that produces less desirable worksmanship of the finished product. I have yet to find the perfect place yet. How about u?

 

[Seannie]

2years?! tats short.. im gona go back and ask for my sft coating.. and the authenticity card.

Ermm 2 yrs if you are those picky & particular kind. If you are easy-going then i guess you can accept your HOYA lens to last quite a number of years. (Part of the hardcoat may drop off after some years but may not be so visible to you unless you really look hard at your lens.

 

[Seannie]

hmmm i dunnoe abt hoya gold coating but i do knoe tat for my RX it costs $1k for 1.74. But it may be true for the difference in color coating cos when i look at my hoya 1.67sft coating, it already looks diff fm the normal green. The color texture looks richer.

 

[foxy_20]

Ermm 2 yrs if you are those picky & particular kind. If you are easy-going then i guess you can accept your HOYA lens to last quite a number of years. (Part of the hardcoat may drop off after some years but may not be so visible to you unless you really look hard at your lens.

oh. ya. i have an old spec which the coating can see that its wear off partially. u have any recommendations which optical shop can b trusted?

 

[2pm2am]

later u go to other shop. then other shop send to same lab. i sure laugh at u. LOL. whole singapore 700+ optical shop. only less than 10 lens companies. what are the odds bro? u count urself.
i went to india. people there do MANUAL cutting with a cheap machine. end up also perfect. all depends on the lab technician who receives your job not the optical shop.

then how? just accept shoddy work? within the same lab , there are few people doing the job. some will do a better a job for sure. if you don't even try or complain, you never know.

if you return to the same shop, they would probably send to a different lab to reprocess it. if you are getting consistently poor workmanship from one lab, why send the job to the same lab? use a different one.

 

[2pm2am]

4-5mm is rather thick and the thickness can be visible from the sides. My power is 7.75. Mine is 1.74 really thin, about 3mm.

Oakley frame $590 plus the lenses $850. The only complain i have is that they accidentally scrape off a bit of the colour at the places close to the screws.

how do you compare lens thickness without taking into account the frame size and pupil distance of the wearer? how big is your frame and how big is the other bro's frame? if you have a narrow pupil distance and big frame, you think you can get 3mm thickness with your kind of degree?

 

[2pm2am]

so i have been conned. heres the 1st pic which was dead b4.
can i say this is a older technology coating b4 SFT? was quoted $250 for this.

OMG! which shop you went to??? $250 for this is a total rip off i tell you. This is only VP coat, not SFT. and if they tell you they can't give you authenticity card, they are lying to you too.

 

[2pm2am]

@ 2pm2am:

errr... so do u mean that we should not be picky & particular when it comes down to what we are wearing on our face everyday? Just tolerate & accept the flaws so that we can become their best customers?

My pants i don really go & measure them up like you do fold them & see whether symmetrical or not. Maybe thats why i don find any problem with my pants all these years. I just trust my tailor with his job. Especially since tailors nowadays are hard to find as it is a dying trade & lesser & lesser ple are looking for tailors. I guess similarly for spectacles, pants or other tings if we dont go and look at them u don find any problems, but the more we see & see, then the problems surface & become nagging at us, a thorn in our heart. Humans are funny.

But honestly speaking, an inch off the leg is ok la, as long its not the wasitline or your butt. Too big u still can ask tailor to shrink it, if you wan to make it bigger then too bad...

when i ask you to go back and complain about shoddy workmanship, do you think i asked you to accept and tolerate flaws? what i was saying is, some people are born like that, they are very particular and picky, you can't please them no matter what.

as for my pants, it's supposed to be slim fit, so 1 inch makes a huge difference and the difference will be visually obvious.

 

[2pm2am]

i dropped by kwong shin the other weekend to take a look to see how "fantastic" they claim this shop to be. I tok with the staff there, find that service is so-so, the range of frames is not that many, and for oakley they dont have the full range of models as well. The uncle behind the lens machine looked very old & the machine is a small one. It is not really that crowded on a sat evening although abt 5-6 staff in the shop. I asked them about the prices & indeed quite reasonable, comparable to my optician.

how do you find out their service is so so when you only talk to them and never try out?

why do you say their range of frames is not that many? is it because you can't find what you want that is why you say that? how then it's considered a big range for a shop that size.

uncle looked old and machine small gives you what kind of impression?

the place not crowded on sat gives you the impression that their service is not good?

 

[Seannie]

OMG! which shop you went to??? $250 for this is a total rip off i tell you. This is only VP coat, not SFT. and if they tell you they can't give you authenticity card, they are lying to you too.

Is VP coating the same as HVP??

Cant imagine there are still conman nowadays, esp when you dont even know whether the lenses they gave you are really what the card claims to be or what they claim it to be. Better just to buy the cheap unbranded lens la. Then no worries. Safe for the mind as well as our pockets.

 

[Seannie]

then how? just accept shoddy work? within the same lab , there are few people doing the job. some will do a better a job for sure. if you don't even try or complain, you never know.

if you return to the same shop, they would probably send to a different lab to reprocess it. if you are getting consistently poor workmanship from one lab, why send the job to the same lab? use a different one.

i think they will still send to the same lab, same worker to process the job, because its the same appointed lab. According to my fren who works in a big branded lab, one person assigned to rimless, one assigned to semi-rimmed, one assigned to full rim, one to RX, etc etc. So clearly if you send back to the same lab that processes that brand of lens, most likely it will be that same person re-doing the job for you. For example, you cant possibly send back Essilor lens to HOYA lab to redo for you right??