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albert.mills@googlemail.com - 22 May 2008 16:49 GMT

Hi,

I've been pricing lenses. At my regular store high index 1.67 single
vision with crizal alize are 319. At walmart 1.67 lenses with zeiss
coating are 160. With zeiss coating at my regulat store they're 270. I
asked walmart who manufactures their plastic and they said seiko or
zeiss, while my regular store says their manufacturer varies.

So two questions:

Is zeiss coating as good as cizal alize?

Coating aside, is the manufacturing and materials used in walmart
lenses good (as good as my regular store)?

I'm sort of hesitant about walmart. Their lenses are cheaper, but so
are their clothes, and their clothes are mostly bad quality.

Thanks.

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ray - 22 May 2008 18:03 GMT

I have bought WalMart glasses and had no problem with them. Recently
I found a cheaper source of glasses that I have been impressed with. A
pair of prescription eyeglasses start at $8. For the 1.67 lenses they
are about $50. They are at http://zennioptical.com/

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Mark A - 23 May 2008 00:12 GMT

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Surprisingly, Wal-Mart carries brand name optical products, unlike large
optical chaings such LensCrafters, etc. As long as you know what you are
getting, I would not hestitate to get them at Wal-Mart (who sells several
different brands).

Zeiss has several different lens coatings, but the ZEISS Carat Advantage is
just as good as Crizal Alize in my opinion (I have it on my Zeiss Individual
lenses). The regular Zeiss Carat coating is not as easy to clean as the
Carat Advantage or Crizal Alize.

Not that it really matters, but lens coatings were invented by Zeiss in 1935
to reduce glare on camera lenses.

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