control of instant optical internet mass communications, as optical forums.

[Chris Ryser]

Press release of April 1st

Essilor to strengthen its operations world wide
with the silencing or control of instant optical internet mass communications, as optical forums.

Charenton-le-Pont, France (April 1, 2014 – 4:30 p.m.) – Essilor has announced their intention of silencing or controlling the instant communications ability of optical forums, specially in the USA and Canada and going world wide.

With millions of pairs of glasses sold in the USA and Canadian through their newly acquired 3 online optical’s and more are on the list for the near future, it is in the interest of the corporation to silence or control any adverse publicity made in and by public forums, affecting sales of the products supplied by those companies.

[coupe]

Silencing or controlling.....meaning laws suits to prevent free public speach. I guess if you have a lot of high paid lawyers, you can do what you wish.

[Steve Machol]

So that explains their seven figure offer to buy OptiBoard. I told them no.

[Judy Canty]

AFD!

[Plausible]

Press release of April 1st

Essilor to strengthen its operations world wide
with the silencing or control of instant optical internet mass communications, as optical forums.

Charenton-le-Pont, France (April 1, 2014 – 4:30 p.m.) – Essilor has announced their intention of silencing or controlling the instant communications ability of optical forums, specially in the USA and Canada and going world wide.

With millions of pairs of glasses sold in the USA and Canadian through their newly acquired 3 online optical’s and more are on the list for the near future, it is in the interest of the corporation to silence or control any adverse publicity made in and by public forums, affecting sales of the products supplied by those companies.

Looks like a Chris Ryser April Fools post to me.

[Blunder Woman]

Well this explains the guys in suits in the SUV parked outside. Uh oh, they're coming in...I gotta go....

[coupe]

It is only a joke......................until Big E reads this post and says..................great idea......................look what is happening to yelp.com.............law suits, investigations,false posting by competition etc..................if its Big E ....................its not a joke.

Chris ...What did you say to one of my posts....If Big E had not thought of it, now you have given them a great idea.

BTW. Where is Eyeverheard.com these days.....


Just a thought.

[Jacqui]

BTW. Where is Eyeverheard.com these days.....


Just a thought.

Chicie was squelched

[coupe]

By whom

[Chris Ryser]

By whom

She was always hacking away at E and maybe they bought her out, and bought her an island in the South Pacific with a nice house and NO generator.

[Jacqui]

By whom

I can't say for sure, but I have a few ideas.

[coupe]

Does it really matter who did it because, when you read the first post ,you start to realize that it is possible for this to happen. No small web blogger owner, is going to be able to stand up to the pressure, that a huge corporate lawyer team can lay on them. And with a non-disclosure clause ( Like Eyeoverheard, I am assuming) nobody knows what happened or how much they got paid, when the blog closes. BUT, the corporate giants get what they want....CONTROL & OBIDIENCE FROM ALL.

[Steve Machol]

Well, with all the talk about certain evil empires trying to control online forums and multimedia, I can honestly say that neither of them have ever tried to force me to do anything with OptiBoard. However a number of years ago when I was still working with SOLA Optical, there was a retail chain in the East that did try to get SOLA to put pressure on me to remove some comments that were critical of them. The SOLA sales rep told them to effectively go to hell and that was the end of that.

My real concern would be selling OptiBoard to a company that would want to control and limit discussions for their own benefit. I take a lot of pride in OptiBoard and am very proud of the members here. If anyone were to ever make an offer to buy OptiBoard, one of my major considerations would be how this would affect our members. I can't say that if one of them offered me $10 million I wouldn't at least consider it, but that's not ever going to happen anyway.

[Steve Machol]

Fyi:

[optimensch]

perhaps more like $100,000,000 - 9 figures more like it!!

[Steve Machol]

perhaps more like $100,000,000 - 9 figures more like it!!

Ok, I might take $100,000,000. But I'd split it with all of you.

[optical24/7]

Fyi:

Pretty sure it was eyeoverheard.com not eyeverheard.

[Steve Machol]

Pretty sure it was eyeoverheard.com not eyeverheard.

Oops, my bad. I was copying what coupe has written. I never visited the site myself.

[Chris Ryser]

Looks like a Chris Ryser April Fools post to me.

Today on the 2nd of April I can admit it..................yes it was my yearly "April Fools Post" and it drew 324 views in 18 hours. Thank you for participating in this game of fantasy that could actually happen these days.

and here is one that actually was published:


Eulogy

Lens Chic- R.I.P.

Written by Cathy on February 8, 2011 – 4:44 pm -
Most have already heard that Eye Overheard posted their last post. I wish to write her eulogy as I believe that many will miss her, her wit, her humor and her ability to think out of the box and especially the images!
We the optigirls started out about the same time in this industry, where no-one was blogging or even knew what a blog was. We communicated back and forth, put each other on our blog rolls and slogged through the morass of Social Media, fed each other stories. She had the brazenness to speak out, to make fun................................................

see all of it: http://theopticalvisionsite.com/eye-news/lens-chic-r-i-p/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A +TheOpticalVisionSite+%28The+Optical+Vision+Site%29&utm_cont ent=Yahoo%21+Mail

[Chris Ryser]

This is the last post you will ever read!

31 Jan 2011 33 Comments bysweyeper in Uncategorized


http://eyeoverheard.com/ Not active anymore


Yes it’s true. This will be the last new post on EyeOverheard!

First let me say thank you to EVERYONE who supported, hated, screamed and laughed at us and with us over the last 3 years!! It has been one hell of a ride. Something that started out so tiny, grew to eclipse all of the trade company websites for hits.

We are the only site who had the @#$% to say what others think.


The reasons the blog will stop are quite inconsequential!


Allow me to take a moment to recap the last 3 years


Our first post (now removed) told the world that all Pearle Visions were going to be corporate Luxottica- I think 3 people read the story, and all said bull****! Guess what, we were right.
Our first big story was that Essilor was buying Signet Armorlite. We broke this in September 2008, and everyone said we were crazy! Little did they know, we knew!! After months and months of both Essilor and Signet denying the deal, it finally came out. If you could have heard the things we knew. Things said at both of their national sales meetings. Things said behind closed doors. We didn’t want to name names, so we just let the story unfold.


We talked about how Essilor discovered the internet, and many of you got a BIG laugh!


We told you all FIRST that Essilor would buy Shamir. Again the denials…


LensChic and her cartoons! By far the most popular author, her stories always the most popular. the video’s she made, copied by others, but none better than hers! Did you know they played the Typical Essilor sales call at the VSP national sales meeting?


We told you VSP would go into Costco..they did


We told you Trufocals suck…and they do


We told you Pixel sucked and won’t succeed, and they won’t!


The DIY home LASIK kit! One of our favorite pictures


Remember Dr. Michelle at UrbanOptiques? Great place, GREAT doctor..to bad she got in bed with VSP (we still love you)


Vision Source to be Essilor soon..we still say yes


We discussed Lenscrafters MBE, and exposed it for the joke it was.
Remember when Al Cleinman got hit by a car? Rumors were it was driven by a VSP employee. Man that picture was hilarious!!


Let’s be honest, people loved our images, and we loved posting them!!


We told you that both Essilor and VSP were going online to consumers, and they have.


Do it yourself eyeglass kiosks


Dictator specs, “QotD”, *** in Glasses…all fun repeating stories!


Modo sells ECO to Walmart…stupid move Modo


We enjoyed the Eyevote winners, even though they are the same every year.
Let us tell you what still will happen.


Essilor will own their own retail stores. VSP will continue to allow their “insurance” to be used in more and more chains, Lenscrafters is coming. Essilor will kill Definity PAL’s and release a new FreeFrom PAL using Shamir technology. Sheep will eat it up! Hoya may be the only company with balls, and they are silently becoming a totally free form lens company. Zeiss will continue to have money issues and possibly be bought by VSP. Last, Luxotica and Essilor will form a partnership that will blow you all away!


Thanks Squeak Cat, Jimmy daddy ,Barry and the others who really cared.
Never stop believing and ABE!


Thanks for reading, and in the immortal words of Monty Python..**** OFF!.............................

[Jacqui]

I just checked and got this:

"eyeoverheard.wordpress.com is no longer available.

The authors have deleted this site."

[sharpstick777]

Chicie was squelched

She is back... as of March. her contract ended on her birthday.

[Judy Canty]

She is back... as of March. her contract ended on her birthday.

From your mouth to God's ears!!!

[Jacqui]

She is back... as of March. her contract ended on her birthday.

She is back, but EOH isn't and probably won't be. I've been talking to her and the site may remain closed.