Transitions renamed reactions

[pete]

I see Specsavers are selling NG transitions under the name of reactions at a very low price.Is this a common company policy to sell to the big companies your product (which you are very protective of brand name and use of logo ) to be repackaged for their own brand?

[johntricity]

I assume this question is directed to Transitions and I will let them answer on there own. As a Lab Sales Manager, we would be very surprised if the product you mentioned was the astual Transitions. Many Chains have recently started casting there own lenses. Including a photochromatic that does not come closed to the performance of an actual Transitions lens. John Z.

[pete]

Silence is golden.The reactions lens is definitely the ng transitions,that is a fact. No reply from tranitions speaks volumes.
They are perfectly entitled to do business with whomever as i am and from now on i will be using rodenstock,hoya,sunsensors.Transitions might think they have a superb product but in fact i have heard a lot of negative comments about ng transitions eg it goes too dark.

[John R]

pete said:
but in fact i have heard a lot of negative comments about ng transitions eg it goes too dark.

Funny that as i have heard the opposite. We have had a lot of people asking for them to be pre-tinted as they are too clear...
Strange as this is the one thing that the manufactures have been striving for a clear photocromic lens and everybody was asking for...
Seems to me you just cant please anybody anytime....

Cant see the problem with SS selling transitions under their own brand name, i guess they have paid for a licence to do so.

[chm2023]

This is how private label works; I'm sure Transitions would prefer that SS use the Transitions brand name but SS is pursuing the currently popular retail strategy of building their own brands. Would it be better if SS sold the lenses as "Transitions"? I would think not, allows consumers to make a direct price comparison.

[John R]

Also interesting to note that they have offers on Brown Reactions Not the most popular colour going.

[pete]

These brown reactions are the ng transitions lens!
You talk about SS paying transitions a licence fee.Nonsence,transitions are paying SS,walmart,lenscrafters retainer fees.This has been common in the supermarket industry for years whereby suppliers pay for shelf space.

[Jeff Trail]

What are you guys talking about? Sunsensor and Transitions America are not tied together any where at all ? Transitions does not coat the "sunsensor" ... As for the complaints of getting "to dark" I would LOVE to hear theat complaint, but I figured that any of us that have been in optics for long (to long maybe :)) know already for everyone that is happy some crab apple complains about the same lens, design etc.,
I seem to hear this a lot and it does seem to get to me that people confuse Sunsensor, Colormatic and Transitions ...Shoot even have opticians tell me I want this brand PAL because the "transition" is better....DUH... if it is N.G. does NOT matter which lens company it came from they are ALL coated with the same chemical, same way, same place ...sheesh..Take a tour of the Transitions plant over nea Tampa (great tour) if it is a S.S. than you will NOT see it anywhere near Transitions...BTW another part that gets confused is people "blame" Transitons for being expensive.. Transitions America only COATS the stinking things...the lens companies decide the PRICES..so if you want to YELL, RANT and RAVE at someone you should find out what brand of lens (Sola, Younger, Essilor, whatever) that company is selling so cheaply and COMPLAIN to that company..it has nothing to do with "transitions" per se'
:hammer:

Jeff "been through all the "changes" and like NG the best "Trail (so far :))

[chm2023]

Pete: SS refers to SpecSavers (see beginning of thread). The Walmarts etc you refer to purchase product from the lens manufacturers not Transitions.

[John R]

pete said:
These brown reactions are the ng transitions lens!


I know that.....
Why would transitions pay SpecSavers et al to market a product not under their name?
Unless they are using SpecSavers as a means of shifting the brown lenses as nobody else seems to do.
In your origonal post you mention SS are selling cheap...Well today we got a leaflet through our (Home) dorr with the offer in £99.00 for a pair isnt cheap....Not when you know how much they cost...