POF Charges

[PAkev]

I am sure this one has been around a few times but I'm looking for some fresh feedback.

With pre patternless edgers many dispensers were charging a pattern fee when patients used their own frames. This left dispensers with a little extra profit margin on the lens side when some folks wished to use their own frame or compensated dispensers for fabricating or finding a suitable pattern.


Just curious what the same folks are doing in the same situation now that they own patternless edgers.

I personally have two column pricing; one reflecting a discount with frame purchase and an other with a standard retail price for the POF patients.

Kevin

[LENNY]

It may not be fair but we mostly only charge the patern fee on our third party patients.
There is no profit there to begin with and it bothers me when they come in with a brand new expensive frame and want to put just lenses under their insurance. It looks like we are not good enough to sell them the same frame!

So patern or paternless there is a Patern fee.

[harry888]

We charge an extra $5 if you are getting just one lens. (half the pair price plus $5.00)

We do $20 off a complete pair of glasses.

So, I guess the pattern fee is obvious when the customer buys one lens, and is buried when they buy the complete set.

Harry

[Texas Ranger]

We only charge an extra fee if it is a rimless mounting. but I think that if I had previuous ly charged for "pattern", what difference does it make if I bought a new machine that is Patternless? I made a $30K investment so as to speed up the processing and increase accuracy, the money is a real, greater expence that needs to be recouped. there should be an extra charge for doing lens only.