Originally Posted by
Kwill212
Yes, and most of the people on optiboard already do it, and do it successfully without having to schlep the junk they sell on alibaba, aliexpress, dhgate, or the equivalent you get a chain stores. Is it possible to make a boat load of money selling bottom of the barrel low tier glasses? Obviously, there are plenty of corporations that do this. But I would venture to say most of the optiboard community has higher standards that that. Your preaching to the wrong choir here buddy. I quite like not being as open minded as these corporations are when it comes to gouging customers for substandard products. If you think a high school student taking a finished pair of glasses from a wholesale lab and handing it to patients with no clue of optics or adjustments isn't gouging people I don't know what else to say.
You seem to be solely focused on the financial aspect of things, where the rest of us are more focused on the patient care side of things. We are mostly also smaller business not big corporations that can sell on high volume, low margin. We are neighborhood people, we are members of the communities we serve. We take pride in the finished products we sell, and we care for the patients we see. I know I wouldn't sleep at night taking money for the junk I see come out of chains and online vendors these days, no matter how big the pile of cash under my pillow was. Meetings about quotas for up sells and capture rates, spiffs from labs for selling the PAL of the month, no thanks, not for me.
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