CommentsDisplaying GlintoftheScythe's 10 most recent comments.

• Pelosi Defends Obamacare Using… Declaration of Independence

  March 22, 2012 at 11:08am

  Has anyone noticed that Nancy has large, very large, and manly ear lobes? 4/5 of her lobes are exposed suggesting that a full carat diamond covers only 1/5 of the surface area of her ear lobe. If you were to skin her ear lobe and make a pouch out of it you could carry several carats of diamonds in it.

• Why Should Glasses Cost More Than an iPhone? Two Entrepreneurs Explain Their Innovative Business Model

  February 24, 2012 at 10:32pm

  In reply to Harryc123.

  SGBT

  How does producing ever cheaper glasses increase consumer options? The only option you increase is ever increasing places to find poor quality.

  You are also misinformed with your challenge to being smart enough to know you are getting what you are paying for when you are totally ignorant of how to do it yourself. First your anticdotal experience with cheapest health care modalities has no bearing, not a shred of worth, as information that reflects the actual state of affair in the optical industry, second the majority of states have laws that require your eyewear and contact lenses to be dispensed by a licensed optician, kind of explains you not understanding the pharmacist apology. It is a felony in many of these states to dispense contact lenses without being licensed to do so.

  So while you may not be moronic you are more ignorant than you realize and don’t want to begin to educate yourself to be better informed.

  But only a moron, using your word, would concluded that because he and his wife experienced x or y that x or y is a truth. That’s just funny. By the way glasses and contact lenses are prescriptive medical products exactly as are the random pills you get from your pharmacy and are regulated to protect the stupid from themselves.

• Why Should Glasses Cost More Than an iPhone? Two Entrepreneurs Explain Their Innovative Business Model

  February 24, 2012 at 1:29pm

  Waffle House sell more steaks than any restaurant business in the country. But if I am in the mood for a steak I don’t go there. Is Ruths Chris an evil place that sells the exact same thing for many times the price? A steak is a steak, they are both pieces of meat why pay more? Pinto and Porsche, organic or chemical laden, junk food or health meals, is Mad Dog the same as any other red wine? Is one inherently evil or exploitative because it costs more?

• Why Should Glasses Cost More Than an iPhone? Two Entrepreneurs Explain Their Innovative Business Model

  February 24, 2012 at 1:19pm

  In reply to modilly.

  You did not buy those glasses from a monopoly company. And I’ve sold glasses that cost way more than four thousand and I would buy them if I could afford them. Sounds like we have the signs of class envy popping up its ugly head among the “conservative”

• Why Should Glasses Cost More Than an iPhone? Two Entrepreneurs Explain Their Innovative Business Model

  February 24, 2012 at 12:59pm

  In reply to wigg.

  Spot on doctor. I also have great admiration for you for not selling what you prescribe. You let the greatest potential profit for your practice walk out your door. I defy anyone to talk about selfish motives and greed among the independent practices like yours.

• Why Should Glasses Cost More Than an iPhone? Two Entrepreneurs Explain Their Innovative Business Model

  February 24, 2012 at 12:49pm

  In reply to Harryc123.

  SGTB

  People not taking the care to assure they got what the paid for are foolish. You should always know that the glasses or contacts you are wearing are what the doctor prescribed. Do you just take any bottle of pills the pharmacist has on hand no matter what the doctor writes and judge that if you didn’t die you got the right one?

  Another of your many wrong points, most people who come back with glasses that do not work are because they were not made correctly. This is an endemic problem in the largest optical retailer in the US.

  Your analogy of market freedom and livelihood is arrogant and paints with a brush wider than you can hold.

  And as to options, you think limiting the sale total expands options? What math do you use?

• Why Should Glasses Cost More Than an iPhone? Two Entrepreneurs Explain Their Innovative Business Model

  February 24, 2012 at 12:26pm

  In reply to GlintoftheScythe.

  mIKEv5
  You demonstrate what I mean by under informend. The measurements 54 – 18, or any other, DO NOT mean that any other frame that is 54 – 18 will fit the same. These numbers still do not take into account the other dimensions of the frame that are essential to proper fit and lens position. Nor will a temple of any length be as long as another temple marked the same in terms of it being the right length for you.

• Why Should Glasses Cost More Than an iPhone? Two Entrepreneurs Explain Their Innovative Business Model

  February 24, 2012 at 12:15pm

  In reply to GlintoftheScythe.

  To think that you can self diagnose, even just your refractive needs, is a demonstrations of ignorance that excludes you from even participating in the dialogue. Having on or two, even one hundred anecdotal stories of success, from people who cannot even demonstrate that their glasses were made to the doctors prescription, is far from remotely compelling. Ask the professionals who see hundreds a week, thousands a year, tens of thousands over a professional lifetime to get an opinion based in experience. This is as funny, in a tragic sense, as all the people who think they know best about contact lens wear and do not follow doctors directions only to present all indignant and mad when you explain it was their own actions that caused their plight. People not trained in a subject usually are dangerous to themselves and others.

• Why Should Glasses Cost More Than an iPhone? Two Entrepreneurs Explain Their Innovative Business Model

  February 23, 2012 at 9:48pm

  These guys tell only half the story. The totally ignore technology. There are 1100 progressive designs on the market, hundreds of anti reflective coatings, and dozens of materials that Cannot be selected by the consumer on line. Another fact they ignore is that eye glass frames are inflation adjusted the same as they were 20 years ago. Then there is the whole idea of a consumer fitting their own glasses and measuring their bifocal heights, which cannot be done with out the frame on their face. Nice try but just a gimmic.

• Blaze Readers: Tell Us About Your Faith

  February 14, 2012 at 10:24pm

  Do you believe, as I do, the God has been speaking through Glenn Beck? He is like a modern day John the Baptist, announcing the coming Christ.