2.14.20 Where to get cheap eye exams; Clark Stinks

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Optometrists are independent. Even as they’re renting space in a Costco, Sam’s Club, Walmart or Target – the remain independent. This results in different prices within a retail chain. But as a general rule, the cost of getting a full eye exam and prescription averages around $70. If you go to an optometrist in a traditional office or an ophthalmologist, the price goes up. With a prescription plan through work, a once a year eye exam may be covered with just a copay for most practices. Christa reads listener posts about how Clark has missed the mark in his advice this week. If you have a "Clark Stinks" to share you can leave it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks so much for taking time out of your day to join us here on the Clark Howard Show,
0:11.4	where it's about you learning ways to save more and spend less and don't wait any
0:16.1	whenever rip you off.
0:17.6	It's being a rip-offs, what about me leaving you feeling ripped off, short-changed?
0:24.7	Well, that's why we do Clark Stinks.
0:28.5	We have a web address, carc.com slash Clark Stinks.
0:32.5	If you hear me give advice, guidance, whatever, you're not really keen on what I said.
0:37.5	You can go post there and then coming up later, you get to hear Clark Stinks on the show.
0:45.5	Clark.com and ClarkDeeals.com are our two websites.
0:49.7	And at carc.com, we checked out what you have to pay for an eye exam.
0:57.3	If you don't have a vision plan, most people don't have a vision plan and you may need glasses.
1:04.8	You may be a four eyes like me.
1:08.2	And so one of the things we checked was we did a survey.
1:15.5	What is it cost for an eye exam going to big chain stores?
1:22.0	We checked the two big warehouse clubs, Sam's Club and Costco.
1:26.1	We checked Target and Walmart.
1:29.3	And the thing was the prices varied a lot, city by city.
1:35.9	They were still in the range of reasonable, the cheapest of any of the four in any of
1:42.4	the city we checked, $59.
1:45.8	The most expensive, $89.
1:48.2	This is for prescription for glasses.
1:51.2	If you need one for contacts, that's going to pump up the price.
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