They need to be taxed. After that sneaker post. Yikes!

It’s crazy. The minimum salary in Spain stayed the same for about a decade. Even working 50h a week with that salary didn’t give you a decent life. Luckily the new left government is raising it. It is still too low for the rent and cost of living but it’s an improvement.

I personally don’t understand the big lavish funerals. Your dead so why do you care how your send of goes. I don’t care if I have a memorial, ceremony etc. I want to be disposed of as cheap as possible coz I don’t want my family to be in debt or pay thousands of dollars to legally dispose of me.

old fashioned film rolls are a bad example----

The original saying made perfect sense: “The customer is always right, in matters of taste.” If a customer wanted wear something ugly or eat something gross, you helped them out with a smile. It’s their money and their business, and you’re just there to facilitate that purchase. But once it got shortened and lost that meaning, it became a huge pain in the ass for employees and businesses, and a license to act like an entitled douche to customers.

This is so weird. In my country, all the necessary data is fileld in. In most cases I don't have to file anything at all, my employer does that for me, automatically.

I agree 100%, also I hate that you have to give permission to use your data to access most apps, websites etc. You should be able to use them without them selling your info to other parties.

Any religion actually.

We the option to lease textbooks for a very small price. The only condition was to return them without any visible damage.

Worst in these is that people usually get to do normal paid work without any guidance at all.

If two people are truly in love, it wouldn't matter if there is a ring at all.

I have downloaded so many apps from what is advertised in another game and then find out it is nothing like the ad at all. So now I don’t even bother. It’s essentially click bait.

Omg yes, it is super expensive. Our old printer was cheap but we didn’t research before hand to find out that the ink for black was $38 and colour was $45.

its a lose-lose sort of situation

Greed does that

100$? You are lucky! Mine cost over 500€!

Buy them online. Mine were $30 shipped.

Luxottica Group out of Italy has a monopoly on the entire industry

Try $7000+ for hearing aids

100 USD for quality glasses is actually cheap. Especially if you need thick lenses, which are heavy. That means you need titanium frames, which are more expensive than plain steel. Also, the lenses vary widely in price, depending on the "options" you select: heliomatic, compound, oleophobic or anti-mist coatings...

They are available online for as little as $10. You tell them your prescription and pay, they make em and send em. As eye tests are free this represents the full cost. Of course if you are disabled, unemployed or retired you'd have gotten them free anyway..

I pay a tenner for specialised frame and an extreme astigmatism prescription glasses. Because Zenni is amazing like that. Get your prescription and shop around.

Yes! The lenses alone are more expensive than one of the cheapest rims, it just makes me so mad allways.

My glasses were over $350 and that was just plain lenses and frames; nothing fancy.

For some reason, it's the frames that cost the most.

Yeah glasses haven't been $100 for about 25 years

Oh no. I went to get an exam last week. While I was waiting for them to print up my RX I heard someone being given a price of over $500 for their glasses. Yikes! I've been getting my glasses online for years for waaay cheaper and submit my receipt to work for reimbursement.

Mine were € 600,- and I once sat on them

Must be single vision lenses.

Thats probably just for the frame. The lenses will be extra.

Zenni Optical. Look it up and Gordon crazy. I have about a dozen pairs from them.

It depends. I have both myopia and astigmatism, and a lens that covers both is costly. Plus I have photosensivity, so I can really use the photocromic treatment. And I'm kinda clumsy, so I'd need shatterproofness too. If you sum up all of this, there's NO WAY to stay under 100 bucks for lenses alone.

Why is it a scam? It’s not fckin glass from the window... optically clear crystals are developing and getting better every year. The scratch resistance gets better also. No one is going to invent s**t for free. The frames has to be either fashionable and or sturdy, they require materials and design. Believe me there’s a significant quality difference between a £50 el-cheapo and a £250 Prada or oakley frame, one will show wear and tear in months the other one will start showing wear’n’tear after a couple of years. They also need an optometrist in store and they need to pay their wages. Even if i’m a returning customer they might see me every 2 years. They have to have a nice store otherwise you won’t be able to try on the frames, they have to keep frames in stock that people might not even buy and they ain’t free. What i learnt since i wear glasses DON’T BUY CHEAP, not having an anti reflective layer will cause migraines.

If you have a single-vision prescription (i.e. not bifocals) and not too strong, just buy online, most of my glasses have cost less than $50. But if you have bifocals (or progressives) or a particularly strong prescription, proper fitting and determining pupilary distance and position is critical.

Paid $60USD for 2 pair of simple readers, I'm over 50. Couldn't buy OTC readers because my eyes are unbalanced.

What? I don't wear them but the people I know with them pay a few hundred. Some have overage at work.

Where can you get glasses for only 100€?

$500 just for lenses.

Mine would be over $700. I have bifocals, If I dont want the old man line across the lenses I have to pay extra for the no line ones. photogray is extra as well. I got a break and got them around $200 at costco instead of through the optimotrist. But my insurance does not cover out of network spec and in network will only pay about $200.

Zennioptical.com I've gotten glasses from them for about 10 years now. Transition, progressive, sunglasses, virtually try on frames, etc. The last pair I bought was in February and cost less than $90.

I’m entitled to a NHS voucher where I can get the frames and most lenses free. My optician once said he was embarrassed at charging so much for the frames when they are a necessity. Not that he did anything about it, he had a business to run!

The frames are the biggest ripoff. It's all plastic, and when I worked at a vision clinic, they all were prone to breakage. You're paying for the brand name labeling it, not a whole lot more of quality (and the look of it).

There is a lot of skilled labor that goes into making glasses.

I just paid $460.00 for a new pair of lens’s. Not including frames. Includes progressive, and transition, features. The first place I went to was going to charge over $700.00. The proprietor told me that their lens were of higher quality than most places.

Sunglasses have to meet a safety standard in the UK- no need to spend loads of cash on them.