Hoya is ruining my life...
I'm realllly getting tired of Hoya discontinuing all of Vision Ease's very fairly priced products to replace it with their own jacked-up products. I don't if anyone else has seen this yet, but I just received this:
ALL ChangeRX plastics are to be replaced with Sensity product.
Outlook, Novel, and Novella, in clear plastic are all discontinued.
So between this and them discontinuing the only 1.74 Trans AR option on the market (from Seiko) I'm done. They can keep telling their accounts that by buying up VE and Seiko that they are keeping Big E from doing it and keeping those companies true all they want. Actions are louder than words, and this speaks volumes. Stop pretending you are better than Essilor when you are pulling all the same tricks.
Rant done.
………………………….even in a world of vertical integration
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Quince
They can keep telling their accounts that by buying up VE and Seiko that they are keeping Big E from doing it and keeping those companies true all they want. Actions are louder than words, and this speaks volumes. Stop pretending you are better than Essilor when you are pulling all the same tricks.
Rant done.
………………………….even in a world of vertical integration were the commercial giants compete against each other, there is competition, at least for a while.
They will buy up another company just to eliminate some products that are irritant to your own ones, or just to kill some good ideas, or to replace some of their products that have problems of any type.
As the new owner they can do anything they want and that is good for them.
In the OPTICAL BUSINESS they have also started to enlarge, by having sub companies buy up other businesses, just to hide fact for a while.
The USA is the most important export market into the optical retail business, as it functions, as per local laws that can differ from State to State.
At the end, their goal is, as a retailer you will be forced to purchase their products, so they will have control over your business.
they will be dearly missed. *slow tear*..............................
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Quince
Considering the Novel/la Change RX is literally half the cost of any Transitions brand trans, yes, they will be dearly missed. *slow tear*
The world of optical retail is changing at a increased speed and you better start getting used to it, and adapt, because it is a non stoppable avalanche.
Having good people working with and for you..................
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Quince
He hired the right people so that he can golf most of the year. I say kudos to him, but a talk is coming up in regards to the direction of the lab.
It's tough when you care about something that you cannot fix- but I respect his wishes. He built this company and will ultimately decide when it is to grow or be dismantled.
Having good people working with and for you...................that is the best way, to have a good going business and still enjoy life.
However the business is still on his mind at all times, even when playing golf.
I used to be the same, during the busy times taking off nearly a couple of months on my 45 ft cruiser but had one of the first 15 pound cell phones installed to access the office or be reachable, and the internet was still in its baby days, but one of the first computers got connected, and running on the boats generator.
I see all the time is weird base curves come in from outside labs.
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Quince
The thing I see all the time is weird base curves come in from outside labs. We call them to ask why they would select a 6 base for a -3.00 Rx and they tell us the computer selected it.
...Well, change it. That's your job right? To make sure the fallible programming doesn't make a not surprising error?
When I had my lab in the 60 s and 70 s there were no computers and you needed some top guys with experience in the surfacing as well as in the finishing departments.
There were some strict rules to adhere to the correct base curves and powers. These days they need no more brain because the computer guides them all day.
Talking about Tyllier lenses .............................
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rbaker
I worked at "The AO" in Southbridge, MA after high school back in the 1950's and spent a lot of time in the R&D Department working with a hand pan.
Talking about Tyllier lenses
During the *EXPO 67* in Montreal, my father and mother came visiting. Father being one of the larger American Optical lens customers, at the time, in Switzerland, was invited to visit the plant in South bridge, so we flew there.
After visiting the plant, we were invited for a nice lunch with the whole board of AOCO.
I popped my question right then: “Please explain the quality of the much cheaper AO “Amoptic lenses”.
After a 30 second silence, I was asked from where the heck I would know about that name and lens.
So I told them that I would get them through Imperial Optical the then largest Canadian optical company, now defunct.
To make the story short, they explained to me that they were actually “Tyllier” lenses and just packaged in an other envelope named “Amoptic” and sold as a much cheaper lens, sold mostly into the South American markets.
The reason was that it was cheaper to make only one type of lens, than to come up with lenses with a different base curve.
That lets me think about all the progressive lenses, of different names, and qualities in today's market, and how many of them are the same lens at different names and prices.