Less expensive fresnels

**becc971** · 09-06-2016, 08:49 AM

Any resources on press on prisms that cost less than $XX each? haha Hilco is killing me!!

edited to take price out, you guys all know what they cost!!

**mervinek** · 09-06-2016, 08:52 AM

I wish... I feel like the price has really gone up. Not sure what you guys charge the patient for a fresnel, but I feel like we don't charge enough. With shipping on the fresnel and to cut them etc... I feel like we undercharge. We don't stock fresnels. It seems like when I do, I never need the one I have in stock.... it's always some weird one. Figures.

**becc971** · 09-06-2016, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by mervinek

I wish... I feel like the price has really gone up. Not sure what you guys charge the patient for a fresnel, but I feel like we don't charge enough. With shipping on the fresnel and to cut them etc... I feel like we undercharge. We don't stock fresnels. It seems like when I do, I never need the one I have in stock.... it's always some weird one. Figures.

thats what makes it tough, if we're using it for a test run before grinding lenses we don't :( and that bums me out!! And same here, it seems like its NEVER the ones we have!

**Johns** · 09-06-2016, 09:04 AM

You can go direct to Fresnel, but you have to put a stock in to get the good pricing. I think it's around 50 prisms.

**mervinek** · 09-06-2016, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by Johns

You can go direct to Fresnel, but you have to put a stock in to get the good pricing. I think it's around 50 prisms.

50 would be a lot for us. We would end up with a bunch we don't need and still end up needing to order one in. Bummer.

**becc971** · 09-06-2016, 12:58 PM

^-- Same here ... we try to have common ones on hand but lately they've been funky!!

**Uncle Fester** · 09-06-2016, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by becc971

^-- Same here ... we try to have common ones on hand but lately they've been funky!!

becc- Maybe edit the first post to $$/ We charge $60 but think it should be more. The problem is for many it's just temporary.

**becc971** · 09-06-2016, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Uncle Fester

becc- Maybe edit the first post to $$/ We charge $60 but think it should be more. The problem is for many it's just temporary.

yes very true

we've had some funky ones come across lately and its almost to the point now that it would be more cost advantageous to remake the lenses a few times than keep trying press ons!!

**fjpod** · 09-06-2016, 04:31 PM

Lately....depending on the case, we will skip the fresnel and just have the prism ground in. If the amount of prism is less than say, 6 prism diopters, and is single vision, or a flat top, and CR or maybe poly, the cost of just surfacing the prism is cheaper than a Fresnel. If the prism Rx works and it is going to be permanent, then you can resurface the lenses in the permanent form and material.

Of course this won't work with high prisms, or patients that couldn't get along with a single vision instead of their progressives for a trial period.