Quote Originally Posted by Chris Ryser View Post
Your wholesale frame vendors live and pay employees from the markup they make by selling eyeglass frames to the retailer.

In very short terms .............................

Above relationship with your frame vendors that saves you
countless labour hours and payroll cost, actually is that you pay more for your frames to make up for that service than your competitor does, who buys his frames outright at way better pricing.
"Can I save $5/pair if I have someone come by and pick the frames up instead of you paying someone to stuff them in a box" is not a real scenario. Whether the charges are baked in are irrelevant if you can't do anything to bring the cost down, and it sounds like lensmanmd's costs went down, not up.