Related: | bensonhurst family vision |
Category: | Optician |
Address: | 116 Mott St A, New York, NY 10013, USA |
Phone: | +1 212-343-1947 |
Site: | m.facebook.com |
Rating: | 4.4 |
Working: | 10AM–7PM 10AM–7PM 10AM–7PM 10AM–7PM 10AM–7PM 10AM–7PM 10AM–7PM |
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Tim W
I just want to say that this is a great store and I have been going here since I was a kid. The prices are better than when I use insurance to get glasses at other places. The service is also great, all the employees are professional and friendly -- and most importantly, fast! Getting to see the optometrist is also quite fast. I have seen several optometrists since Ive been there, and they have all been excellent. I even brought my dog in with me once and she didnt mind. I am never charged for an check up, even when I am going without buying anything. For instance, I once went in because I had what turned out to be pink eye. The optometrist saw me, diagnosed me, and wrote me a prescription for a liquid I bought in the pharmacy a few steps away. If I went to my regular doctor, I would have had to pay (and wait at least an hour)! Anyway, Optical 88 is just great. Oh yea, one time, I saw a guy go in to get his glasses fixed, and the employee took it and used some machine to fix it. After he was done, the customer asked him how much it would be, and the employee said "Dont worry about it." After seeing that, I brought in a few sunglasses that I did not even buy from here (and they knew this) that were kind of askew. One of the employees used a heat machine to bend them back into place. No charge, of course! Theyre not just this friendly with me bc Ive been going there since I was young, I see that they are like this with everyone, including people they dont know.
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julie cho
Dr. WEINTRAUB should have her license REVOKED! The first time she fitted me, the contact prescription was so wrong I had to have them adjusted right away. At the time, I had a sinking feeling this woman did not know what she was doing, but I pushed the thought away. She also was very curt and seemed to have complete lack of concern for my well being. I was just a body to her. I should have listened to my instincts because the prescription never felt right in the right eye. I kept dismissing the unsettling feeling the contacts were off because I rarely wear my contacts. I kept telling myself I just have to adjust to them. But almost one year later and I absolutely hate wearing these contacts. SHE HAS NO BUSINESS fitting people for contacts. COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT. Stuck with contacts that make me feel dizzy every time I wear them. She got the fit wrong, not once but TWICE. I complained to the store and they said, "You had a trial period right?" It mattered to them not a single bit that I rarely wear my contacts. They just didnt care at all. You get what you pay for people. DO NOT GO HERE! RUN, RUN, RUN FROM THIS PLACE! Pay a little more for quality eye care from professionals and not hacks.
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A Private User
This place is great. Great prices, selection, and employees...EXCEPT for the eye doctor in the back (skinny, blonde). Maybe I caught this woman on an off day, but she gave me attitude the second I walked into the back exam room. She grabbed my new frames with demo lenses in (assuming they were my perscription) and then when someone brought them back in saying the werent perscription, she angrily asked me why I gave them to her and stared in awe at me for a solid five seconds. Then she barked directions at me and got angry at me for not following directions she had not even finished. I almost never post on sites like these but I have never had such a terrible experience. The only reason I didnt walk right out was because I was blindsided by how angry and mean someone could be. Honestly, it was something out of a movie.
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Gabrielle Taylor
When I first started coming here years ago prescription price was very low. I told everybody I was singing their praises. Now its $80. They are not special anymore because now they care less for those who come here out of need. Since I sporadically get glasses here; on my last visit I just asked what the price was just to see if it had changed. The older Chinese lady with the longer hair snapped at me and said, its the same as it always was". Then she shocked me when she started saying horrible things in Chinese at me, but looking away as if it wasnt geared toward me. Im not Chinese and she would be very surprised to know that I understand the language. I will never go here again!!! I will also warn others.
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Paul Landowski
I couldnt have been more pleased... I decided to just walk out with the $30 eyeglass prescription and have my old (damaged) frames replaced through an online retailer, but brought the frames just in case. In less than an hour I walked out with not only a prescription but also new poly carb AR lenses in my favorite (pretty damaged ---> fully restored) frames for maybe $5 more than it wouldve cost me to wait 2-3 weeks and then have a tech call me and tell my my frames were in disrepair and Id need to choose new ones via online. Great service, great staff, great value; I cant recommend this place enough!
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Chary B
I purchased a pair of vintage sunglasses on Ebay . I needed to have the lenses replaced to non-prescription as soon as possible. One place quoted me $155 with a 24-hour return; another did not give me a price quote, but told me it would take 7 to 10 days to have the lenses replaced. 88 Optical Hester charged me $35 for the entire work and I had my sunglasses back to me within two hours. On top of everything, the customer service was excellent! 88 Optical Hester is definitely worth doing business with! Thank you for a great job!
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Sharon Moss
excellent service. Went to price lenses for my frames that I already owned. I had gotten quotes from eyelabs of Philadelphia and Modern Eye also in Philadelphia for over $400 for the same lenses that 88 Optical was able to prepare for me with the same level of glass quality, progressive prescription, scratch proof and anti-reflection options for half of what was quoted in top notch Philadelphia eye labs. Thats right only $200 for the exact prescription, type of glass quality and optical coatings. I wouldnt go anywhere else.
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laurent williot
I went a year ago to have one of the branches of my glasses replaced after I lost it. They kept the glasses a few days and replaced it. Cost $10. Was happy. I went back a year later for the exact same thing, holding the very branch that they had replaced, and was now broken. They did not want to be bothered and told me a story that they did not do that, did not have any in stock, etc... They did it last time b=ut suddenly it is not possible to do this type of work... I hate when people lie.
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Steven Lee
Been coming here ever since my grade teacher told me that I squint too much while trying to look at the blackboard. They never renovated the place, place looks the same as when they first opened. Good selection of designer and cheap frames. Staff is attentive, eye doctor seems to differ each time I go, I guess theyre on per diem only.. When your frames or contacts are ready for fittings and sizing, they make sure youre comfortable and everything is spot on before you leave.