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As a follow-up to my post asking for experiences with buying contacts online: Turns out it was moot. The brand I use (Acuvue) has its price set by the manufacturer, so anyone, online or off, has to sell it for the same price. On one hand, that makes it easier for me -- no need to figure out doing it online and getting it covered by my insurance afterwards. But on the other... isn't there some kind of rule about price fixing like that? There should be...

Unrelated to prices, I think this is going to be the last time I visit that office. They always keep me waiting a long time (today it was 45 minutes sitting alone in the room waiting for the doctor! No one even checked on me once), they never apologize for the wait. Rude.

Tomorrow my vacation starts. Time off work, mother coming to visit. (Hear that, burglars? I can post about it in advance because I'm not leaving home -- in fact, there will be an extra person here, so even worse time to try!) I need to find more very cheap (or better: free) entertaining things we can do.

I finished two more books in the Remnants series, but I decided I'm just going to wait until the end of the series to post about them, otherwise I'll just keep saying the same thing: Story semi-interesting, writing/editing godawful, books way too short. I was thinking, maybe K. A. Applegate brought a ghost writer in on this series, too. That might explain why the editor seemed to die at a certain point in the series -- the couple of early books were well-written and edited, but these later ones are just plain awful.

Date: 2015-10-20 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] postingwhore.livejournal.com
I thought it was common for manufacturers to set prices for things...O_O

Date: 2015-10-20 03:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
I don't think so? They sell it to stores for X price, so it makes the store would sell it for more than X, but they couldn't tell stores/websites "You must sell it for X".

Manufacturers can suggest prices, but they can't say they must be sold at that price, as far as I know.

Date: 2015-10-20 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashmedai.livejournal.com
I used to have Acuvue when I wore contacts for a while. I don't know about the rules for price fixing, but I can ask Chris since he's a licensed optician if you're really curious. I don't know if the laws here would apply overseas, but with the global market, they might well do.

Date: 2015-10-20 03:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
I'd be curious to know what he says, assuming it is the same over there as it is here.

Thanks!

Date: 2015-10-20 03:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashmedai.livejournal.com
I'll let you know tomorrow, he just left for work. :)

Date: 2015-10-20 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashmedai.livejournal.com
Well, short answer - he doesn't know since it wasn't part of the job to know how manufacturers calculate prices, but that some do have fixed prices. He said that's probably to avoid sellers selling them for "dumping prices" (i.e., way less than the competition).

Date: 2015-10-20 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
That makes sense. Thanks for checking with him!

Date: 2015-10-20 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashmedai.livejournal.com
No problem! :)

Date: 2015-10-20 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Sucks indeed. Contacts cannot cost that much to make...

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