stupid glasses man, you stink.

[undergunfire]

So, I get my new glasses this past Thursday...I went to the eye place inside Walmart because the exam fee is cheap and I am on a budget...well...I guess I get what I pay for.

My glasses kept slipping off my face, so I went into the eye place to have them adjusted. The dumby guy SNAPS my glasses in half....walks out from the back and pulls off the "show model" from the wall...walks back into the back...then walks out to me and says he broke my glasses, so grabbed me a new pair.

WAIT.....FROM OFF THE WALL? I thought I paid for a NEW pair of glasses....ya know...the glasses that people haven't put on and off and dropped on the floor and junk?

So, he riggs up my "new show model" glasses and they are CROOKED....noticably crooked. He adjusted them, I said they were not only still crooked...but slipping off my nose again AND they were "jiggly" at the joints.

He fixed them up a tad...then I told him they still didn't fit well and were still very crooked. He says...."Well, they aren't that crooked and you can hardly tell". I say...."Well, I can tell and it gives me a headache."

So, he fixes them up a bit more and tells me to try the glasses out and come back tomorrow if they still aren't right. So, I told him I would walk around Walmart and come back if I wanted them fixed. I walked around Walmart for 10 minutes before I decided my glasses just weren't right.

I get back, and the guy who was fixing up my glasses left. So, I went to the other guy and he tried fixing them and agreed they were crooked. Well....after much fighting with him about how they WERE crooked and now they were REALLY jiggly at the joints...I left and said I would be back tomorrow to talk to the eye doctor about this.


I AM FLAMING MAD!!! I paid for a freaking NEW pair of frames...I however, did NOT pay for the show model from off the wall. They had better replace my glasses with NEW glasses tomorrow and adjust them right...or I will be layin' the smackdown.


Me, walking out of Walmart: :tantrum:!

 

[timetowaste]

That guy sounds like he probably rode the shortbus as a child....

I have one word for you....CONTACTS!

Tracy

 

[undergunfire]

timetowaste wrote:

That guy sounds like he probably rode the shortbus as a child....

I have one word for you....CONTACTS!

Tracy

I agree and no contacts for me. I am not patient enough for that, lol. My eyes aren't even bad, anyway. I get so much make up and junk in my eyes...contacts would be horrid. I also get very watery eyes if I put in any sort of drops...for hours.

Ugh, the thought of contacts makes me run .

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

Technically the man broke them trying to adjust them so you should automatically get a new pair, exactly the make and quality of the ones that you bought. I would go back thier tell them that they broke them trying to adjust them that i was dropping them off and i would be back when my new, brand new, glasses were in!!!!!!!!!! Otherwise i would tell them i want ALL my money back from the including the eye exam,lol

 

[undergunfire]

Luvmyzoocrew wrote:

Technically the man broke them trying to adjust them so you should automatically get a new pair, exactly the make and quality of the ones that you bought. I would go back thier tell them that they broke them trying to adjust them that i was dropping them off and i would be back when my new, brand new, glasses were in!!!!!!!!!! Otherwise i would tell them i want ALL my money back from the including the eye exam,lol

My thoughts exactly. I am going in after work to speak directly with the GM of Walmart. Hopefully the GM will be the one to make them give me a NEW pair of frames, my lenses are fine.

Arg, my eyes were used to the glasses too, now I am walking around without any on....my eyes are funky!

 

[seniorcats]

I hope they sort it out for you. I tried Wally Mart once. The doctor was great and did everything right. One of theassistants was so awful (long story) I never went back. Too bad because the doc was just fine.

 

[undergunfire]

Yep, the doctor was just fine with me, as well.


We went in and explained the whole thing that happened yesterday with another eye lady at the place and she ordered me in a new pair of frames and fixed up these "model frames" for me until my new ones come in. She adjusted them well, there is just one part on the back of my ear that is pressing more against it than the other side.

I am going to make sure that when my glasses come in, that same lady is there to adjust them for me again.


Arg, stupid Walmart. I probably won't go back there again for any thing eye-glass related.

 

[okiron]

Lol my glasses keep falling off my face if I look down more than an inch. I've asked people to fix them for me and they keep telling me everything is fine. If it's fine then why can't I look down at all? I gave up. Love my glasses and think I look adorable in it but I rarely wear it.

 

[AngelnSnuffy]

Oh gosh Amy, what an ordeal and so stupid. They have to replace them if their employee (dummy) broke them, sheesh. I would have been ticked too! No way they would try to give me model ones, nope:grumpy:. Glad you've got more coming. Let us know how it goes. What do you have to wear them for, reading or all the time? I just wear mine when online or I get a headache.

Lately though, I am getting headaches in that flourescent lighting like at the bowling alley and was getting them at my job with the lighting, so I need to be going to get my eyes checked and get new as well. I think I'm gonna get tinted though, but not sure. (The ones I have now are as old as my son, 14 years:shock:, they've been great though!)

 

[JimD]

timetowaste wrote:

That guy sounds like he probably rode the shortbus as a child....

As a rider of the "shortbus" myself, we probably would have gotten it right the first time.
:expressionless




My guess is that he's probably got a degree in nuclear science...and is just bored out of his mind because he can't get a real job.

 

[undergunfire]

I wear them all the time, but I do take them off at work while I sticker and hang my mini solar displays.

Ah well...I'll get my new pair soon and I will hope that can adjust them right this next time .

 

[EileenH]

Do you have health insurance? The reason I ask is, my company does not have eye prescription coverage, but one of my employees went to David Vision for new glasses and they have a program where you get a reduced price just because you carry health insurance - not eye prescription, just an incentive for people to have health insurance. He got a nice pair of glasses and is really on a tight budge too. Just a thought.

 

[undergunfire]

Nope, no health insurance . I am waiting until work desides to stop being cheap and give it to me.

I have also never heard of David Vision .

 

[Little Bay Poo]

Something even worse happened to my friend because he decided to save money by going to Hour Eyes.

He went to the Hour Eyes optometrist to get a prescription done, TWICE, because they kept doing it wrong. He picked out some frames and they said it would take a few weeks to get the order for the lenses in. They cut the lenses wrong and they kept popping out of the frames, but after TWO MONTHS he finally got it straightened out (or so he thought) and got the glasses. He figured since he usually wore contacts, the glasses thing didn't really matter too much.

Then, about 4 months later he noticed he had been having an increasingly harder time seeing...everything was blurry, and he couldn't read small print anymore. So he went to an ophthalmologist somewhere else (he was never going back to Hour Eyes at this point) and they checked up on his eyes. They said that his prescription was so grossly overestimated that it caused his corneas to swell up. They ordered him off contacts and gave him prescription eye drops to use while his eyes healed.

So, he was back to wearing his Hour Eyes glasses (still with the wrong prescription). A couple weeks later his Hour Eyes glasses fell apart. He took them to the new eye doctor to see if they could fix them for him. The person said "I've seen some bad glasses jobs in my day, but these take the cake." The glasses were so poorly made that they decided it was best to pop his lenses into a pair of loner glasses from their show floor.

Well, the only ones his current lenses would fit into were a pair of what I like to refer to as "electric blue Emo glasses." So then he went to work and everyone was laughing hysterically at him and calling him gay...but I think he liked the attention. Yesterday his eyes finally healed up and he got a correct prescription. It turned out to be a full power less than what Hour Eyes told him it was, and also with a much lesser degree of astigmatism.

So, after trying to save money by going the cheap route, he's gotta buy a whole new pair of frames and lenses, and has to pay for all the doctor visits to repair the damage Hour Eyes had done. If it happened to me I'd be pissed and trying to find out a way to get some money out of it, or at least get Hour Eyes in trouble, but he just doesn't care! I don't get it :?