Error in eye prescription
Discussion
Had my eye test and took prescription elsewhere for new glasses. New glasses arrived and I found them to be not correct. Took them back and they checked to find that the lense are exactly as prescribed. They checked my old glasses and found an very large difference in prescription, suggesting an error in new prescription. I now have to go back to the optician for them to check the prescription.
This is all costing me time, inconvenience and an 37 mile round trip everytime. What is reasonable if they find they have made an error?
This is all costing me time, inconvenience and an 37 mile round trip everytime. What is reasonable if they find they have made an error?
crankedup said:
OJ said:
crankedup said:
What is reasonable if they find they have made an error?
To buy your next pair of glasses elsewhere?
scorp said:
crankedup said:
What is reasonable if they find they have made an error?
I'd say about £400,000 compensation should be reasonable for the trauma you have suffered.Where there's blame...
crankedup said:
Had my eye test and took prescription elsewhere for new glasses. New glasses arrived and I found them to be not correct. Took them back and they checked to find that the lense are exactly as prescribed. They checked my old glasses and found an very large difference in prescription, suggesting an error in new prescription. I now have to go back to the optician for them to check the prescription.
This is all costing me time, inconvenience and an 37 mile round trip everytime. What is reasonable if they find they have made an error?
don't get your glasses from a different optician to the one you get your eye test done. it's as simple as that, it'a always a bad idea, for precisely the reason you have found. your eyes might just have altered a lot and need time to adjust, in which case you're just screwed because no-one will be interested in doing anything to help you as technically both the prescription and glasses would be correct and neither party is going to shell out to buy you new lenses.This is all costing me time, inconvenience and an 37 mile round trip everytime. What is reasonable if they find they have made an error?
and if you bought them off the internet then that's just dumb.
you say they "found an very large difference in prescription". What was this difference exactly? Your prescription can change frequently and rapidly so. The prescription you had could well have been correct for the time when you did the test. Had you noticed your eyesight deteriorating prior to the test? I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the optometrist has f
ked up but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the case either
ked up but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the case either JuniorD said:
you say they "found an very large difference in prescription". What was this difference exactly? Your prescription can change frequently and rapidly so. The prescription you had could well have been correct for the time when you did the test. Had you noticed your eyesight deteriorating prior to the test? I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the optometrist has fked up but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the case either
WHAT HE SAIDked up but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the case either AdeTuono said:
JuniorD said:
you say they "found an very large difference in prescription". What was this difference exactly? Your prescription can change frequently and rapidly so. The prescription you had could well have been correct for the time when you did the test. Had you noticed your eyesight deteriorating prior to the test? I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the optometrist has fked up but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the case either
WHAT HE SAIDked up but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the case either 
NO NEED TO FECKING SHOUT - HE'S SHORT SIGHTED, NOT DEAF!JuniorD said:
you say they "found an very large difference in prescription". What was this difference exactly? Your prescription can change frequently and rapidly so. The prescription you had could well have been correct for the time when you did the test. Had you noticed your eyesight deteriorating prior to the test? I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the optometrist has fked up but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the case either
ked up but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the case either Genius
And if you're driving that 37 miles, don't wear your new glasses
Edited by Superhoop on Wednesday 26th November 18:22
My wife worked for specsavers for a few years. Apparently it is not uncommon for the plusses and minusses and degrees of astigmatism to be written down and converted incorrectly. I once had a pair of prescription sunglasses where the astigmatism was 180 degrees out. Made the eyeball feel it was being turned round in my head. 
VXR_Driver said:
carbonjunkie said:
don't get your glasses from a different optician to the one you get your eye test done. it's as simple as that, it'a always a bad idea,
What on earth are you talking about?? How can one option's +2.25 be different from another's? decide where you want to buy your specs from, then get your eyes tested by them. believe me, it solves all kinds of problems.
oh and as for stuff getting written down wrong, it may be common in specsavers but that's just another reason to find a decent optician...
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