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[bradders]

Specsavers did mine - just booked a sight test then gave the 'oh by the way' when I got in the room

[kiwicoops]

The test the acu want you to take is very simple, quick and therefore should be cheap, what the opticians want is to do a 3/4hr calculation of the best presciption for specs. Even at the £30 they want to charge the shop is probably still subsidising that test in the knowledge they'll get it back IF you buy the specs.

Any one person is not going to change the high street eye test = sales monopoly, but what I'm suggesting is that the acu uses the power it has to deliver X number of potential clients and in return we collectively get cheap quick form filling.

pete

[antonye]

To be honest I think the number of tests the ACU can provide a chain with is still peanuts in comparison to people off the street, so it probably doesn't make commercial sense to do it.

But anyway, one quick Google ("cheap eye test") and the first result was this - a voucher for a £10 eye test at Boots!
http://www.boots.com/en/GBP10-eye-check_1240962/

[Sorted]

Tesco's Opticians department do it for free Least they did when I had mine done for the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

[kiwicoops]

Originally Posted by antonye

To be honest I think the number of tests the ACU can provide a chain with is still peanuts in comparison to people off the street, so it probably doesn't make commercial sense to do it.

But anyway, one quick Google ("cheap eye test") and the first result was this - a voucher for a £10 eye test at Boots!
http://www.boots.com/en/GBP10-eye-check_1240962/

I've already booked a test at Boots in marlow, have printed a £10 voucher but they'll charge an additional £10 to stamp the form.

Anyone know how many members there are in the acu? more than 139,000(my membership#) If the acu could make £1 per test towards their benevalent fund, thats more than all there other incomes.

pete

[kenoir]

I have mine done at the 'vision centre, university of manchester,.
It takes a little longer than the high street because you are the guinea pig for a med student learning how to do eye tests. But then a senior optician has to verify the students results..... However, it's FREE and they are extremely thorough!

[Fruitbat]

Just got mine done at Boots as part of an annual eye test. The test is free to anybody with a family history of glaucoma although I think you have to be over 40 as well (so no problem there ). Optician did seem in a bit of a rush but no pressure to buy any glasses - and no charge for stamping the ACU form.

[Lily]

tescos and it was free...no idea why but it was and so was hubby's