meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Clark Howard Podcast

1.29.20 Cheap eyeglasses and contacts; FDA condemns Purell claims; Delete info Facebook has on you

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We tend to just accept that prescription glasses are costly. There is an international cartel that’s been buying up both retailers and frame manufacturers for eyeglasses in order to corner the market and take prices through the roof. BUT, when there’s market concentration to push prices up, there’s always a rebound effect. Now there’s a fast growing marketplace of discounters offering eyeglasses at a fraction of cartel prices. Frames and lenses complete can be had for as little as $15. Consumer Reports has put together ratings for the discounters. Number 1 - Costco Optical, 2 – Warby Parker, 3 - Zenni Optical. In fact, every single discounter rated got at least a good score. Know you can get good eyeglasses for under $100 – even for bifocals, trifocals and progressive lenses. -For contacts, 1800Contacts is now offering a free online eye exam for contacts, with an eyeglass Rx. See our guide. There are enormous price differences for contacts. Beware merchants pushing high cost lenses. Many of us use hand sanitizers thinking we’re protecting ourselves from germs. If using Purell, you may even think you’re protected from the flu. The company has even claimed the product can prevent Ebola! No more says the FDA. They’re reclassifying Purell as an unapproved drug because of these outlandish claims. The real advice from the FDA and the CDC is to simply wash your hands thoroughly with soap. Only default to hand sanitizer when there’s no alternative. Also we worry about catching colds and flu on airplanes. The Journal of the National Academy of Sciences finds you have to be within 3 feet of a sick person for them to be a potential hazard to your health. Don’t worry the whole plane is contagious. Via permissions, Facebook tracks you OUTSIDE of Facebook, when you’re not using Facebook or any of their services. Under pressure, in an effort to stave off legislation that would restrict their tracking activities much more, Facebook now offers the tool, Off Facebook Activity, allowing you to see and curtail this tracking. At sign up we unwittingly give Facebook permission to spy on us everywhere we go online. They know all. Third party apps are reporting to Fb what you’re doing online. They know what articles you read, podcasts you listen to, music etc. They can then build an ultra-deep dossier for sale and for targeted ads. Producer Joel used the new tool to delete the info and found it very easy.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and that quality

0:10.9

yours.

0:11.9

I want you to learn ideas so you can keep more of what you make.

0:16.9

Coming up, there's something that people do to try to ward off illness that the FDA says

0:25.1

is just baloney.

0:27.1

I'll tell you what you need to know.

0:29.2

You don't waste your money.

0:31.7

Coming up later, Facebook has been stalking you if you're a Facebook user, even a light

0:38.6

one, on what you're doing away from Facebook.

0:43.1

They are now letting you know about it and offering you tools where you can tell Facebook

0:49.5

not to spy on you anymore, really, at least when you're away from Facebook.

0:53.9

I'm going to tell you what you need to know and how you can get more privacy in your

0:58.5

life.

1:00.5

Clark.com's our main website and ClarkDeals.com is where we have all kinds of bargains for

1:06.5

you, all kinds of deals.

1:08.5

And I know from what people click on on Clark deals that when we post an ultra cheap

1:14.6

deal on prescription glasses, people click on that in big numbers.

1:22.2

And a lot of us wear glasses, a lot of us wear have family members who wear glasses.

1:29.4

And we just accept that prescription glasses are going to cost us a fortune because there's

1:38.8

something most Americans don't have on their radar.

1:42.1

And it's that there is a cartel, international cartel that has been buying up both retailers

1:51.0

of eye glasses and the manufacturers of frames trying to corner the market not to lower

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Clark Howard, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Clark Howard and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.