Last week I had a patient who has been a past user of 1-800-Contacts come in. After securing an O.K. from his ophthalmologist I proceeded to become his contact lens fitter/provider. The patient wasn't sure of of what he had been happy with so he brought his boxes in for me to see. Guess what: The Boxes he had were either specially packaged for 1-800 by B&L or had a tight irremovable bar code over the Base Curve, on all packages. I couldn't really tell if the base was printed on the box (although the box was somewhat different than those supplied by B&L to us for the same product.
My point? Although 1-800 Contacts wants the patient to be able to supply "The Prescription On the Side of the Box" to them, they don't want thier customers to be able to "Supply the Precription On the Side of the Box" to any other source of contact lens supply again.
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