Does anyone hire out to do the edging for other offices? Curious how you would make that work.
There's a local OD group breaking up and the new offices don't have edging in them, thinking of offering the service to the new OD owners.
Thoughts?
Does anyone hire out to do the edging for other offices? Curious how you would make that work.
There's a local OD group breaking up and the new offices don't have edging in them, thinking of offering the service to the new OD owners.
Thoughts?
- Optician
- Frame Maker/Designer
- Teacher of the art of crafting handmade eyewear.
It may not be worth it for them or you unless you have a lot of spare time.
We did it for one office a short while. He retired soon. He would send us the RX, we would order the lenses, we would invoice him, ect.
I do it on emergency type basis for other offices in my area. I am not too sure that I would take that on a full time basis, seem like alot of work.
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I do work for a local OD. He and our doc have been friends for 50 years and he's no big competition and he's close so we even deliver. Don't make much, but it does help.
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I've tried it both ways and couldn't wait to cut the string each time.
There are many grey areas of who takes responsibility for a number issues including: Quality, Spoilage, RX changes, and Patient Satisfaction changes to name a few. Most retail edging capabilities are limited to servicing MOST RX's so there will be limitations which may cause you to compromise the quality of your product or have it manufactured by a competent wholesale lab using the best industry resources.
Not much to be made and/or saved in today's competitive arena with alot of work farmed out to 3rd party labs.
The only way I can see it working as a mutual benefit is if the selling retailer acquires all uncut lenses and supplies them to the edging retailer.
You'd be getting into wholesale work which is a different ballgame. Let the people that do it for a living handle it.
One of the docs in our office owns another office, and we do edging for him. As long as we're not crazy busy, it works out fine. He keeps his own stock lenses and orders what he needs to, so all we do is the edging. Probably no more than 50 jobs a week.
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