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Offline suehugh

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« on: March 31, 2015, 15:58:20 PM »
If you want to purchase a new pair in Fethiye, will the shops be able to work with your UK prescription.



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Re: Spectacles
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2015, 16:45:46 PM »
Yes, uncomplicated prescription will get you cheap glasses without a test , but a more detailed one means the glasses are not cheap.  They also do not have a great variety of styles to choose from.
Phil got glasses about 4 years ago and he has a complicated prescription and the glasses were the same price as the ones at home, plus once he got home he could not get on with them and they were left in a drawer.

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Re: Spectacles
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2015, 16:46:37 PM »
Yes, have had no problem

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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2015, 21:27:25 PM »
Thanks - perhaps we will leave it. Sue requires varifocal, transition lenses.
She recently bought a new pair from Specsavers but the transitional and tint part of the lens was not as good as an old pair she had. These were purchased from an independent optician who we think managed to achieve a tint quality that Specsavers could not match.

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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2015, 18:40:51 PM »
I have bought my glasses here for the last ten years, every two years.  I have varifocals with transition and anti scratch.  A good choice of frames too.  And cheaper than the UK.  I would,but here if I were you

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Re: Spectacles
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2015, 13:05:11 PM »
I haven't yet bought glasses but my daughter's friend broke hers while they were staying with us last year. She has a particular prescription to correct an abnormality with her eye movement but her mother was able to get her a new pair without a problem (and said it was cheaper than the UK).

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« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2015, 17:17:14 PM »
Phil paid £400.00 for his, same as it in the U.K. plus in the U.K. he can choose real designer glasses.
This pair he got in Turkey were no use to him.

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Re: Spectacles
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2015, 20:27:54 PM »
I wear Varifocals and have an Astigmatism.  Currently wearing a pair I got last year from Cem Optik and they are as good as you can get.  The lenses are Zeiss and with a Pair of Prada Frames worked out less than half the UK cost.
My O/H has a very complicated prescription due to detatched retinas etc and his lenses work out a lot cheaper too. He had a pair which broke once and returned them by post from the Uk and they were back with us 2 weeks later with a brand new frame. 

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Re: Spectacles
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2015, 20:43:47 PM »
Phil paid £400.00 for his, same as it in the U.K. plus in the U.K. he can choose real designer glasses.
This pair he got in Turkey were no use to him.

Did they see Phil coming Jacqui  ;)  ;)  ;)

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Re: Spectacles
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2015, 21:04:00 PM »
Currently wearing a pair I got last year from Cem Optik and they are as good as you can get.

Only heard good things about Cem Optik, on both pricing and quality of service.

JF




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