Some optical history from back in 2011

"EyeOverheard"

This is the last post you will ever read!
31 Jan 2011

33 Comments by sweeper in Uncategorized

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Yes it’s true. This will be the last new post on EyeOverheard!

First let me say thank you to EVERYONE who supported, hated, screamed and laughed at us and with us over the last 3 years!! It has been one hell of a ride. Something that started out so tiny, grew to eclipse all of the trade company websites for hits. We are the only site who had the @#$% to say what others think.

The reasons the blog will stop are quite inconsequential!

Allow me to take a moment to recap the last 3 years
Our first post (now removed) told the world that all Pearle Visions were going to be corporate Luxottica- I think 3 people read the story, and all said bull****! Guess what, we were right.

Our first big story was that Essilor was buying Signet Armorlite. We broke this in September 2008, and everyone said we were crazy! Little did they know, we knew!! After months and months of both Essilor and Signet denying the deal, it finally came out. If you could have heard the things we knew. Things said at both of their national sales meetings. Things said behind closed doors. We didn’t want to name names, so we just let the story unfold.

We talked about how Essilor discovered the internet, and many of you got a BIG laugh!

We told you all FIRST that Essilor would buy Shamir. Again the denials…

LensChic and her cartoons! By far the most popular author, her stories always the most popular. the video’s she made, copied by others, but none better than hers! Did you know they played the Typical Essilor sales call at the VSP national sales meeting?

We told you VSP would go into Costco..they did

We told you Trufocals suck…and they do

We told you Pixel sucked and won’t succeed, and they won’t!
The DIY home LASIK kit! One of our favorite pictures

Remember Dr. Michelle at UrbanOptiques? Great place, GREAT doctor..to bad she got in bed with VSP (we still love you)

Vision Source to be Essilor soon..we still say yes
We discussed Lenscrafters MBE, and exposed it for the joke it was.

Remember when Al Cleinman got hit by a car? Rumors were it was driven by a VSP employee. Man that picture was hilarious!!

Let’s be honest, people loved our images, and we loved posting them!!

We told you that both Essilor and VSP were going online to consumers, and they have.

Do it yourself eyeglass kiosks

Dictator specs, “QotD”, *** in Glasses…all fun repeating stories!
Modo sells ECO to Walmart…stupid move Modo

We enjoyed the Eyevote winners, even though they are the same every year.

Let us tell you what still will happen.

Essilor will own their own retail stores. VSP will continue to allow their “insurance” to be used in more and more chains, Lenscrafters is coming.

Essilor will kill Definity PAL’s and release a new FreeFrom PAL using Shamir technology. Sheep will eat it up!

Hoya may be the only company with balls, and they are silently becoming a totally free form lens company. Zeiss will continue to have money issues and possibly be bought by VSP. Last, Luxotica and Essilor will form a partnership that will blow you all away!

Thanks Squeak Cat, Jimmy daddy ,Barry and the others who really cared.

Never stop believing and ABE!

Thanks for reading, and in the immortal words of Monty Python............P..SS OFF!