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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by __jal on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:03PM (#18982186)
Got me, but I just added Topology Eyewear to my list of companies to never do business with.

Don't spam in my pleasure reading.

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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by RandallBrown on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:11PM (#18982288)
It's not really spam when it's a legitimately helpful comment.
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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by femto113 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:28PM (#18982513)
It pretty clearly crossed the spam line for me: The parent specifically pointed out that doctors don't give you the PD to in order to force you to buy glasses from them, but suggests there are other ways to obtain it. Eric replies to talk about how much better their app is than any do-it-yourself PD measurement but does not disclose that their app also doesn't give you the measurements in order to force you to buy glasses from them. I did not find this helpful and it is clearly commercial, since the app has no utility other than to sell you their glasses.
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Re:Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefer... by pmarreck on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:13PM (#18982315)
Oh look, a guy trying to be helpful while making some money mentions his product on a fucking tech-news website run by a famous startup incubator and you idiots want to report it?

Classy.

This is especially stupid considering the entrenched eyeglass industry is a monopoly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7H-_8UkmFU

Basically, this guy can't NOT be helpful

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