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Ideally where you don't need to show a prescription. Just want std B&L lenses.

Got a Boots eye test prescription t'other day and GetLenses, my usual lens supplier) won't recognise it as a contact lens prescription - they have done in the past.

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Posted : 22/07/2010 9:13 am
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That's because a contact lens prescription is different - mine is a few points different from the glasses one.

Not found anywhere that will do them without prescription (when I've needed some but fallen out of my 2 year checkups) except some very dodgy-looking foreign places where I'd not be sure I was even getting genuine lenses.


 
Posted : 22/07/2010 9:16 am
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Apparently its illegal to dispsense contact lenses without a valid prescription.

[url= http://www.optical.org/en/news_publications/news_item.cfm?id=F4198519-4BD9-43C1-BC607E4726A02D58 ]http://www.optical.org/en/news_publications/news_item.cfm?id=F4198519-4BD9-43C1-BC607E4726A02D58[/url]


 
Posted : 22/07/2010 9:49 am
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i asked this the otherday but found [url]www.visiondirect.co.uk[/url] via google, they were around £25 cheaper than from optician, but i did have my last pack of lenses for reference re. prescription


 
Posted : 22/07/2010 10:24 am
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It is illegal to sell contact lens with out a contact lens presscription which is completely different from a normal sight test prescription as it asesses what type/size/power of contact lens is suited to you.

just 'buying' lenses form a dodgy internet retailer who doesn't enforce this is an accident waiting to happen and with eyes most accidents mean blindness.........


 
Posted : 22/07/2010 10:31 am
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[url= https://www.daysoftcontactlenses.com/GB/Buy.aspx ]Daysoft[/url] are the cheapest I've found. They delivery very quickly as well.


 
Posted : 22/07/2010 10:59 am
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+1 for Daysoft.

They will ask you to confirm that you have a valid prescription and from where but you won't need to produce anything.

( I assume they would do spot checks?)


 
Posted : 22/07/2010 1:12 pm