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KimchiExplosion
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Nowhere near Seoul
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 Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:28 am Post subject: Average price for a pair of prescription eyeglasses. |
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| Nothing fancy, just basic glasses for the near sighted. Just don't want to get ripped off. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:09 am Post subject: Re: Average price for a pair of prescription eyeglasses. |
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| KimchiExplosion wrote: |
| Nothing fancy, just basic glasses for the near sighted. Just don't want to get ripped off. |
Depending on your prescription and your choice of frames, anywhere from 60k-400k won. Designer frames can run 200k-300k by themselves.
Basic, single vision lenses are about 30-40k then add the cost of the frame.
Often, eyeglass shops will have 1 display case of basic frames and a package price of 60k-70k (exam, frame, lenses).
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Fraser
Joined: 09 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:05 am Post subject: |
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I haven't walked into a place yet that has been able to communicate with me effectively.
Until then I'm curious what a solid frame (not nec. designer but a good frame) and the top of the line lenses would cost? FYI, I have a -8.0 prescription and would want the smallest lens cut so I'm not wearing Coke bottles... |
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Xylox
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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I have a high index prescription, back in Canada my glasses ran me $500.
I wandered into an eye glass store with my k-gf, got an eye exam, picked out some frames and came back 2 hours later to get my brand new glasses. Total cost was $60. Not too bad.
The guy even fixed my old glasses for free, they were off balance and messed up. Definitely recommend going with someone that can translate for you though, although not really needed you can do sign language I guess and just do thumbs up thumbs down. |
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r122925
Joined: 02 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Fraser wrote: |
I haven't walked into a place yet that has been able to communicate with me effectively.
Until then I'm curious what a solid frame (not nec. designer but a good frame) and the top of the line lenses would cost? FYI, I have a -8.0 prescription and would want the smallest lens cut so I'm not wearing Coke bottles... |
My perscription is also pretty high (-7.0) and I just bought a new pair of glasses last week. As others mentioned, if you want the cheapest of the cheap you can get something for 50,000-60,000. I spent a little more and got some titanium frames with the thinner lenses with scratch resistant coating and it cost me 215,000. Still much less than it would be back home. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| If you want a progressive bifocal, the price will be ridiculous. I was better off going home and buying them at Wal-mart. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
| If you want a progressive bifocal, the price will be ridiculous. I was better off going home and buying them at Wal-mart. |
I use progressive bifocals & I've bought glasses here a few times. Not something shops can whip up in the back room (takes a couple days to order the lenses in) but they've always been totally okay & ran me about 200000 won, including decent no-name frames. Includes a free eye test if you need one. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
Something nice about opticians here is the free afterservice if your glasses ever need minor repairs (sometimes even major). They work hard to cultivate loyal customers. |
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ktkates87
Joined: 13 Apr 2010
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| I need to buy some contacts, does anyone have a current price on what a pair of basic monthly lenses run here? My prescription is something like -6.5 or something like that! |
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