This is the same lens they use for the buying groups under many aliases..............
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Lab Insight
It's a good progressive for an old molded front design but way over priced. This is the same lens they use for the buying groups under many aliases and the inflated list allows them to offer it at 70% off.
Lab Insight is right again..............................
Lens manufacturers have done that forever. They sell the same lenses in different envelopes to different markets at different prices.
I learned that the first time when I had my optical lab and visited American Optical in Southbridge in the early 1970s.
When I complained that their first quality"Tyllier" lenses were too expensive, they offered me another lens called "Amoptic" which I had been buying from Imperial Optical in Canada for a few years.
When I told them that we already were using that brand I was told that we did the right thing, as they were the exact same lens in another envelope.
For them it was cheaper to it that way than to develop a lens expensive brand on its own.
I am convinced that this practise was not new then and is not old now and is still used.