If you want to save $$ on your Ontario License renewal fees , or other provinces for that matter , start selling and dispensing Rx eyewear on line . To qualify be sure to sell bifocals and progressives without taking seg heights.
Ontario, by their inactions , has created a new class of "optician" . It would seem that if you are registered with the Colleges and submit to their payment and fees schedule they will pursue you for infractions, but not perform their own duties to protect the public . It would seem that if you are not registered and openly defy the laws of the province of Ontario by selling on line without a license, then the College has a "do nothing" history of not pursuing offenders. Essentially Ontario has reduced their dues paying members to the same plight as BC opticians . Can anyone dispute this and point to a history of pursuing illegal, unauthorized, on line dispensing or giving away of thousands of RX glasses ?
So if you want to avoid $ 900.00 licensing fees , Years of education and avoid Continuing Education expenses and avoid the unpleasantries of facing discipline proceedings, then it seems like you just have to start selling RX eyewear on line and not send in your renewal fees . Any one want to dispute this ?
If it is fair for the on line unlicensed vendors then it should be fair for the legal dues paying members. Don't pay for inaction !
This new class of "optician" has been created especially for those opticians who do not want to pay fee increases, legal fees in the multi millions of dollars , or brick and mortar rents .
So if you want to save $$ join the crowd . If you want to be treated like a second class citizen , keep your license, pay your fees.
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