Walking away without paying

[Reiper]

I wouldn't have walked out, but I would have demanded a discount equal to that which the other specialist would have charged for the extra tests they quoted me on.

If they said they were going to perform all the tests and then quoted you $100 for those tests then didn't provide one of the tests they need to ensure you receive all of the tests for the $100 you paid them.

If they refuse to do that THEN you walk out without paying and without your script.

The other optometrist would have also charged $100. Apparently these places don't do tests "a la carte". You go for a general eye exam and there is a fixed rate. This is why I was so upset, if they had simply directed me to the other place to begin with, I could have gotten everything done for $100. As it stood, they wanted me to spend $200 either because of their incompetence or dishonesty.

Apart from the fact that it's illegal, they didn't cheat you of anything. As long as they only charged you for the tests they performed, they did everything right. The only error was that there was one test they couldn't (and didn't) perform.

Really, because from where I am standing its sounds more like their unscrupulous activity is illegal. The whole point was that they DID charge me for the test they couldn't do, and they redirected me to a place where I would have to pay the full price for another FULL series of tests. As I said above, they weren't charging by the test, but a flat rate for an eye exam.

With the sheet I have, having half the tests done was worthless. It only has any value to me when it is completed. If they had simply redirected me to the other place to begin with it would have cost $100, but as it stood they wanted me to spend $200.

So rather than complete the required test, you committed fraud and falsified your medical records in order to get the job?

You better hope that your field of view is OK and you're not involved in an accident or fail a task that could be due to you not seeing something that should have been in your FOV, because that could end up costing you a lot of money, a lot more money than the cost of taking the extra test.

What exactly is this job you needed the eye test for? I pray to God isn't nothing involving vehicles or heavy machinery.

It was for the reserve army, for a non combat role. And yeah my field of view was fine, I had just had all of these tests done like 6 months earlier for an unrelated reason.

Sometimes spending money to make your life easier is worth it.

Yeah that is why I ended up paying. I could just check off the "test completed" myself, and it probably wasn't worth the trouble. It still offended me on principle though, and that is why I decided to make the thread.

 

[porous_shield]

I wouldn't have walked out, but I would have demanded a discount equal to that which the other specialist would have charged for the extra tests they quoted me on.

If they said they were going to perform all the tests and then quoted you $100 for those tests then didn't provide one of the tests they need to ensure you receive all of the tests for the $100 you paid them.

If they refuse to do that THEN you walk out without paying and without your script.

I second this. You may not have been happy with the service but you should still have gone to that other place and got the test done properly.

I would have debated leaving as well. I hate it when businesses aren't upfront about this kind of thing and just want to get you in the door and tell you the full details later. I've had the same problem with a mechanic and a friend of mine had it recently with a computer repair place.