I usually go to Tesco for the free eye test but Specsavers is more convenient so had a look online for a discount code. Nothing came up but I discovered If you search on the website for your local store using the 'store locator' function then scroll to the bottom you will find a printable voucher! my local store offered a free eye test, my sisters local one offered a test for £7.50.
If you decide to purchase new specs when there don't forget NUS card holders get 25% off (not combinable with their 2for1 or free anti glare - or any other - offers)
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allpinknsparkly
17 Sep 17#1
I usually go to Tesco for the free eye test but Specsavers is more convenient so had a look online for a discount code. Nothing came up but I discovered If you search on the website for your local store using the 'store locator' function then scroll to the bottom you will find a printable voucher! my local store offered a free eye test, my sisters local one offered a test for £7.50.
If you decide to purchase new specs when there don't forget NUS card holders get 25% off (not combinable with their 2for1 or free anti glare - or any other - offers)
highwayman8155
17 Sep 17#2
I recently had a free test at specsavers. I'm afraid I was underwhelmed by the low tech approach. No photograph of the eye and an old photo copied grid for macula degeneration. If you want a comprehensive eye health check this isn't it. Perhaps I was unlucky... Biggleswade branch.
michaeloswell
17 Sep 17#3
Free in Tesco's
RickDoyle to michaeloswell
18 Sep 17#26
I had one in Gorton, Manchester recently.
As soon as I said I wasn't buying frames the day of the eye test, the manager stopped talking mid sentence and walked away from me. Ignorant.
I won't be using Tesco's for eye care again. Free or otherwise.
biggrub
17 Sep 17#4
Unless you are prepared for the hard sell after the sight test followed by even harder 'up-selling', avoid these people like the plague. The shop we have here is like a cattle market. I have been there twice as we get free eye tests through work but I now choose to pay and go elsewhere
Uilleam17 to biggrub
17 Sep 17#9
I've been to specsavers quite a few times and just tell them I don't like any of their frames and collect my prescription,there's nothing they can do about it, they have a legal obligation to give you the prescription without a sale if you paid for your eye test. Then the world is your oyster.
Excellent service from Glasses Direct. Great value too especially when codes are issued via MSE.
Skybird to biggrub
17 Sep 17#14
I totally agree very aggressive sales assistant s.Went to Asda for my last glasses and had great service and definitely no hard sell.
1an4492
17 Sep 17#5
I got a free eye test with my £230 frames :disappointed:
Loveabargain99
17 Sep 17#6
Thanks I have been waiting for the free eye test voucher to come through the post but my local has the free voucher online which I never noticed before :thinking:
holeymoley18 to Loveabargain99
17 Sep 17#7
Perhaps you should have gone to Specsavers and got your eyes tested?
williamh1
17 Sep 17#8
Free everywhere in Scotland
jcluk to williamh1
18 Sep 17#22
"Free" you mean as we will pay for it somehow.
williamh1 to jcluk
18 Sep 17#23
Paid for in taxes, just like the NHS and Social Security.
ILikeUsingGifsToComment
17 Sep 17#11
ostinato
17 Sep 17#12
Be warned the quality of glasses bought from some of those online retailers are woeful compared to a highstreet optician.
veedubjai to ostinato
17 Sep 17#13
Do all stipulate what lenses they use? I know that Specsavers are a brick & mortar business with high overheads but worried that online retailers could be using sub-standard lenses.
ostinato to veedubjai
17 Sep 17#17
The only way that they could offer such good prices would be to compromise on quality. Only the most basic lenses cost peanuts.
Gynx
17 Sep 17#15
I'm someone who doesn't particularly like hard selling, but I'm not afraid or saying no, no matter how awkward it is.
Whilst they "ask" and have a few optional extras even if you buy glasses from them, I just let them do their piece and say no. I've never felt hard pressure to go above the price of the glasses.
There's worse places for hard sales.
All branches are under their own little section though so service can vary massively from. SpecSavers to SpecSavers.
Had massively good service once when the Asda optician incorrectly filled out the prescription. They re-did the lenses even though it wasn't their fault.
lucas
17 Sep 17#16
Free anywhere if you say you've got a history of glaucoma in the famalam
Robo
17 Sep 17#18
My mother suffered from diabetes, which entitles me to free eye test anywhere. Take the script, say thanks and order your glass on line. Can't see ( no pun intended ) how they can ever check up. Feel a tad guilty when I say "no thanks, I'll just take the script", but 30 seconds later its all forgotten.
ostinato to Robo
17 Sep 17#19
Family history of glaucoma (direct relative) entitles you to a free test if you're over 40, family history of diabetes doesn't. Someone at your opticians sounds a tad confused.
DavidL
17 Sep 17#20
Specsavers is a franchise, so you get good ones and bad ones.
I have had a bad experience with Specsavers. They failed to diagnose a detached retina in my eye despite continually going to with sight problems. I was withing days of losing the sight all together when I decided to try out a local family run optician in my home town who noticed it straight away and got me up to hospital for an emergency operation.
We get free eye tests in Scotland (not sure if you do in E&W) but my experience has put me off all the bigger opticians.
daBluone
18 Sep 17#25
£10 in Fleet and Farnborough. Boo!
Emma.Powell682
20 Sep 17#27
Help ! Can't find the free eye test voucher on the Specsavers page ?
missismop to Emma.Powell682
22 Sep 17#28
search for your local store and when it comes up go to the bottom of that page it should be at bottom for you to print out
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If you decide to purchase new specs when there don't forget NUS card holders get 25% off (not combinable with their 2for1 or free anti glare - or any other - offers)
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If you decide to purchase new specs when there don't forget NUS card holders get 25% off (not combinable with their 2for1 or free anti glare - or any other - offers)
As soon as I said I wasn't buying frames the day of the eye test, the manager stopped talking mid sentence and walked away from me. Ignorant.
I won't be using Tesco's for eye care again. Free or otherwise.
glassesdirect.co.uk/
speckyfoureyes.com/
goggles4u.co.uk/
Whilst they "ask" and have a few optional extras even if you buy glasses from them, I just let them do their piece and say no. I've never felt hard pressure to go above the price of the glasses.
There's worse places for hard sales.
All branches are under their own little section though so service can vary massively from. SpecSavers to SpecSavers.
Had massively good service once when the Asda optician incorrectly filled out the prescription. They re-did the lenses even though it wasn't their fault.
Take the script, say thanks and order your glass on line.
Can't see ( no pun intended ) how they can ever check up.
Feel a tad guilty when I say "no thanks, I'll just take the script", but 30 seconds later its all forgotten.
Free eye test at Bristol Bedminster btw.
specsavers.co.uk/off…ree
We get free eye tests in Scotland (not sure if you do in E&W) but my experience has put me off all the bigger opticians.