Originally Posted by
Fred Dagg
Funnily enough, I had a case germane to this thread today. A previous pt of mine, who had previously told me he was thinking of buying online because his mate told him he was a mug for paying optometrist prices, came in with some online specs.
He joined the NZ Automobile Association, so he could get a free eye exam from Specsavers. He took his free rx away, went online and bought a pair of progs from Zenni, using their online widget to measure PD (Specsavers evidently don't supply it). The new glasses came back, but they're not working like his old ones from us, and he wants us to see what the problem is. The problem is, mate, you're a (fill in the blank).
Just on PD, he's actually symmetrical, so I would have considered him a good candidate for using an online cowboy calculator. He got 62, when he's actually 59. There was apparently no option for mono PD input, which won't be great for most people.
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