From Wed 8 Mar, you can get a voucher for a free eye test (norm £25) at Vision Express until 11.59pm on Sun 26 Mar. You'll then have until Sun 30 Apr to redeem the voucher.
Simply go via the link above to book your eye test in the store of your choice (find your nearest). Once you have completed the booking, you'll be emailed a voucher which you must take with you to claim your free test. For exclusions, see 'more info' below.
Vision Express has confirmed there's no obligation to act on its advice, or to make a purchase. If you do need new glasses, see our Cheap Glasses page for the latest deals.
Tesco Opticians also offers a free eye test with no voucher needed, if that's more convenient for you. Remember, if you're under 16 (or up to 19 and in full-time education), over 60, or if you live in Scotland, you're entitled to free eye tests on the NHS anyway.
I had a free eye test with VE - and I advise anyone else, to NOT take up this offer. I took the prescription to another optician to make up the specs - varifocals, which were a disaster. After fiddling with the alignment, arms, nose piece etc, finally optician re-tested my eyesight. Completely different to the one FREE from VE - which had shown a great difference to the previous prescription. fortunately, they swapped the lenses without charging me anything - but that could have been £600 wasted - for the sake of a free eye-test. Lots of other Free ones out there , just avoid VE - imo !
Otto.uk
7 Mar 17#3
How do you know your another optician is not wrong one? A second different result does not make the first one incorrect. Also the eye test result could be right but the lab is the one that messed up when making the lenses. A lot more variables to the problem.
skipraider
7 Mar 17#4
I've had three eye tests recently, all different! Two Specsavers branches can't even agree if I have astigmatism or not!
albionwarrior
7 Mar 17#5
never go to specsavers
ostinato
7 Mar 17#6
Sight tests are subjective, so sometimes a bad result is down to you being "a bit rubbish" when you do your test....it may be as simple as being tired or not concentrating and giving poor answers. Also, a lot of the optometrist's testing eyes locum between practices, so they could be in specsavers one day and in an independent the next. One optician's practice is not inherently worse than the next in terms of quality of sight test as they all have to follow set standards.
The quality of the glasses and lenses is something else entirely though....
thomasleep
8 Mar 17#7
and we need to know that...why? what relevance does it have to this post..........purely rhetorical
Her_Indoors
8 Mar 17#8
Fine - forget everything I said - Everyone go and have a free eye test at VE. In future I will keep my own experiences to myself.
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Simply go via the link above to book your eye test in the store of your choice (find your nearest). Once you have completed the booking, you'll be emailed a voucher which you must take with you to claim your free test. For exclusions, see 'more info' below.
Vision Express has confirmed there's no obligation to act on its advice, or to make a purchase. If you do need new glasses, see our Cheap Glasses page for the latest deals.
Tesco Opticians also offers a free eye test with no voucher needed, if that's more convenient for you. Remember, if you're under 16 (or up to 19 and in full-time education), over 60, or if you live in Scotland, you're entitled to free eye tests on the NHS anyway.
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I took the prescription to another optician to make up the specs - varifocals, which were a disaster.
After fiddling with the alignment, arms, nose piece etc, finally optician re-tested my eyesight.
Completely different to the one FREE from VE - which had shown a great difference to the previous prescription.
fortunately, they swapped the lenses without charging me anything - but that could have been £600 wasted - for the sake of a free eye-test.
Lots of other Free ones out there , just avoid VE - imo !
The quality of the glasses and lenses is something else entirely though....
Fine - forget everything I said - Everyone go and have a free eye test at VE.
In future I will keep my own experiences to myself.