Avoid this place like the plague. They way overbook, so you will sit there 20 minutes past your…read moreappointment time waiting. There is only one doctor and he's the one that owns the place. He looks to be about 90 years old and has the personality of a doorknob. He doesn't like to talk much. He just kind of grunts.
The first eye exam I had, I waited 1.5 weeks for my glasses. If they have an "in-house" lab, why did it take so long? I went in to pick up the glasses and couldn't see squat when the snippy woman with the stringy reddish brown hair sat down with me. Everything was so blurry, I literally could not see anything. She kept repeating over and over how progressive lenses work and that you have to tilt your head back to see out of the bottom portion of the lenses. I kept telling her I was aware of that, but I would get neck strain cocking my head back trying to see out of the glasses and even then I couldn't see anything with them. She got pissed off because I told her to stop repeating that.
I've had dozens of pairs of progressive lens glasses and never had to make sure I was holding my head in any particular way to see out of them. I wore them for about 35 years or more and worked in front of a computer screen all day every day.
I took the glasses and tried wearing them for four days straight thinking maybe I needed to get used to them. I had to blow up the font size on my laptop and phone in order to read anything and all I got was eye strain. I finally gave up and called them for a prescription check.
I had to go back in for the third time and I am disabled, so that's not exactly easy for me. She checked the glasses against the prescription and said it was correct. I then had to schedule a second appointment for an eye exam the following week, so that made a third trip down there.
I got my eyes examined again and the alleged doctor seemed quite befuddled by why my prescription didn't work and changed it, but actually suggested I use my cheap readers that I can see out of and just get a prescription for distance. Why would I want to do that? Anyway, he revised the prescription... or something.
Another 1.5 weeks passed and I went to pick up the second pair of glasses. This time, the page that same horrible woman gave me to read was less blurry, but still not clear at all. It really shouldn't be this hard folks. Again, she started with her "you have to hold your head back to read with progressives" speech. Again, I told her I was aware of that, but it had never been necessary for me to do that before.
She started to get hot again and told me "Well, you've never had progressives then." WHAT? I told her that I had them dozens of times. She disagreed with me and started really getting irritated. I'm getting hot myself at this point because these people are wasting my time and she is insisting it's my fault I can't see out of their crappy glasses.
At that point, she stood up, gathered all her papers, including a copy of my new worthless prescription and stormed off back toward the cash register, saying "alright then." 'Alright then, what?" I replied. She acted like that was it. Take it or leave it.
I don't know if she's the owner's granddaughter or what, but she acts like she owns the place. I told her on my way out I was going to try and wear the glasses to see if things got better, but if they didn't, I would ask for a refund, no matter what I had signed.
I also suggested she check the pathetic online reviews of her store and notice that many negative reviews called HER out in particular for being a nasty piece of work. She doesn't want to hear anything that disagrees with her stock speech. I wish I had checked the reviews before I ventured in there.
So I put the glasses on to drive home to see if distance was any better than reading. I could almost see better without the glasses. Not even kidding. What position should I hold my head in for distance, I wonder?
Bottom line: I will try and wear these blurry glasses for a few days, but I won't even bother trying to return them and having a third eye exam. I want no parts of going back down there again. I'll just wait until January when my annual Humana glasses allotment comes though again and go somewhere else where they know what they are doing.
I will also be calling Humana to report this establishment. Hopefully, they'll get enough complaints to stop contracting with them.
I am expecting the store to reply with some kind of "butter wouldn't melt in their mouth" reply where they did nothing wrong. Yeah, nothing wrong except fail to provide the product they are in business to provide and totally waste hours of my time.
You have been warned!