Laser Eye Treatment is not cheap and after going to my FREE consultation with Optical Express I found this out, they advertise £395 per eye yet after my consultation I was quoted £1850 for the whole treament for both eyes as apparently I have a large pupil in one of my eyes meaning a more expensive treatment. I’d have been a fool to assume that it would actually be £395 per eye as this is purely for marketing purposes that they quote this and in most cases peoples eyes are slightly different and will need alternative treatment if they are correctable.

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I found that this is an extremely competitive industry and that the sales process is a very hard sell. From repeatedly not letting up phone calls from Optical Express HQ in Scotland to after sales in the form of calls and emails still. Even on the day of the consultation it was a hard sell approach which I take a huge dislike to.

I am still very interested in laser eye treatment and managed to get the cost down slightly actually! I bartered quite a lot with their sales people as it was clear they did not want to lose a sale! I definitely saw an opoortunity here (even with my eyes)! I asked them what they thought Optimax would quote me and how I was interested in going for my FREE consultation with them to see what they had to say about my eyes. Immediately that hit a vunerable point and they were keen to keep me on their books. I received numurous emails of £200 and £150 discount vouchers, I explained to their sales consultants when they calle dme again, that his still wasnt enought as it was still so much more than I had prepared myself for after seeing their tv adverts! I managed to shave a little more off the price and at this point it was down to £1480 as apposed to the original £1850!

I completed my negotiating by asking what corporate discount there would be and how I wanted this sales person to gain the commisson from my sale (as they had by this point spent a lot of time on me and I had built up some useful rapport) I managed to squeeze another £46 from them as I said I worked for the NHS (which was a slight twist of the truth) but they had no way of finding out that htis wasnt the case.

My Final quote came to £1434.00 thats £416 cheaper than the original quote.

I would still like to save up and have this treatment done and beleive optical express to be a competant company to do this, I wonder what more vouchers they will throw my way knowing I am still interested!