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Prescription help?

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  • 10-06-2019 2:39pm
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    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,475 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi All!

    Can someone please help me decipher the following prescription notation?

    Right Eye: Plano /-0.50 X5
    Left Eye: -0.25 /-1.25 X2

    I want to buy some glasses online and the prescription I have seems to be different from the format needed of Sphere, Cylinder, Axis.

    Any info will be much appreciated.


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    jeoun
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭jeoun


    banie01 wrote: »
    Hi All!

    Can someone please help me decipher the following prescription notation?

    Right Eye: Plano /-0.50 X5
    Left Eye: -0.25 /-1.25 X2

    I want to buy some glasses online and the prescription I have seems to be different from the format needed of Sphere, Cylinder, Axis.

    Any info will be much appreciated.

    Right eye :
    Sphere = 0.00
    Cylinder = -0.50
    Axis = 5

    Left Eye:
    Sphere = -0.25
    Cylinder = -1.25
    Axis = 2


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    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,475 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    jeoun wrote: »
    Right eye :
    Sphere = 0.00
    Cylinder = -0.50
    Axis = 5

    Left Eye:
    Sphere = -0.25
    Cylinder = -1.25
    Axis = 2

    Thanks a million!
    Very much appreciated!


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    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,772 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Hi folks, just enquiring if I purchase glasses online from the UK or further afield, ie USA, are custom duties, tariffs etc added on.
    Thanks.


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    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,475 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Hi folks, just enquiring if I purchase glasses online from the UK or further afield, ie USA, are custom duties, tariffs etc added on.
    Thanks.

    From the UK or anywhere in the EU, no.

    From further afield, anything over I think @€;26 is technically liable for VAT and duty.
    In practice it's very much a crapshoot.

    I purchase from selectspecs fairly regularly and they most often ship from China, I have never been caught for taxes on those deliveries.
    I do believe however that the E-Packet shipping used has a tax clearance arrangement built in.
    Other vendors may have different arrangements.


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