I went to Lenscrafters, posing as a customer,and they wanted to charge 15.00 additional for scratch resistence and an additional 15.00 for u.v. coating on polycarbonate lenses. When I questioned the "optician" I was told "that all of OUR polycarb lenses have scratch and u.v coatings".This scenario occured at 4 different Lenscrafters.
In my opinion, charging extra for something that already exists is not only illegal but it is unethical. This WILL hurt our industry, because soon people will not look at us as professionals but will think of us as something akin to used car salesmen.
Perhaps our state boards should start to look into this .
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