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Warby Parker
By: Mac Date: December 24, 2012, 11:23 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Warby Parker Wants To Destroy A $20 Billion
Company That Charges Customers Insane Prices[/glow]
I've been wearing glasses since 6th grade. I have mucho
experience with glasses, frames, etc. And I'm always blown away
at the expense. Like swim suits, the less there, the more
expensive they seem to be.
I heard about Warby Parker
HTML http://www.warbyparker.com/
sometime back, forgot about them and
the then saw a recent news article on the expense of eye wear.
It kills me that there is a company Luxottica, that is pretty
much a monopoly and knows it can charge what it wants.
It's that time for replacement glasses for me and so, good
timing, I remembered Warby Parker. After going through their
pretty cool site and trying different things, I was ready to
dive in a get a pair... until I get to this part
HTML http://www.warbyparker.com/inquiries/#prescriptions-03.
No
malice on their part. I should have gone there first. Simply I
need bifocals and they don't support that currently.
So I had to go to the local eyewear stores and get raped without
a kiss.
While they were having a very amazing sale on frames, I still
walked away less $440. The frames were only $21. They were on
most of their designer frames. That's cool, but still the lenses
and the special needs cost me an arm and a leg. She told me
without the insurance and the deal, my glasses would have run
over $1000. WTF people.
Check out this article and separate news report if you have
eyeglasses.
So in support of common sense, visit Warby Parker
[quote]Have you ever heard of a company called Luxottica?
What we learned was pretty shocking!
The details:
Luxottica is a $20 billion company.
It makes glasses and sells them.
500 million people wear its products.
65 million pairs were sold last year.
It owns Ray Bans and Oakley. It makes glasses for other
brands it does not own, including Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Prada,
Burbury, Prada, Tiffany, and many more.
It owns glasses stores Lenscrafters, Pearle Vision, Oliver
Peoples, Sunglass Hut and others.
It owns Eyemed, the nation's most popular vision insurance
company.
Because it owns so much of the eyewear industry – from supply
chain to distribution – Luxottica is able to charge very high
prices for the glasses it sells.
The average frame plus lenses costs $300 at Lenscrafters. That's
about 20X more that it costs to make them.
Some people think this is an unfair ripoff.
Some people believe that Luxottica is a monopoly that cannot be
defeated.
One company that does not feel this way is New York-based
startup Warby Parker, which is on a never-say-die mission to
destroy Luxottica.
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HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voUiWOGv8ec
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Re: Warby Parker
By: Chiprocks1 Date: December 25, 2012, 11:34 am
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I hate having to bow down to something that is more or less a
monopoly knowing full well I am going to pay through the nose.
Ugh!!
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Re: Warby Parker
By: Mac Date: December 25, 2012, 11:55 am
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Hate it every freakin' time. Now that I know about Luxottica,
just makes it worse.
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