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- From: giddings@denali.physics.ucsb.edu (Steve Giddings)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: contacts by mail -- illegal/unethical??
- Message-ID: <GIDDINGS.92Oct12140011@denali.physics.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 21:00:11 GMT
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- Organization: University of California Santa Barbara
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- I have been ordering my contacts by mail from Dial a Contact Lens.
- I recently changed eye doctors, and my new eye doctor is stridently
- opposed to my doing this. He claims that outfits like this obtain
- their contacts illegally or unethically through third parties,
- referred to an embargo that other doctors
- are attempting to enforce, and has refused to give me my prescription.
-
- My question: is it true that Dial a Contact Lens and other such
- mail-order lens suppliers are illegal, unethical, or in a legal gray
- area? Or is my doctor (and his friends) just trying to protect their
- ability to continue to dispense contacts, either for medical reasons
- or for profit reasons?
-
- I would appreciate any concrete information that anyone could supply
- regarding this. Please email comments (if there is sufficient interest
- I could be persuaded to post a summary).
-
- Steve Giddings giddings@denali.physics.ucsb.edu
-
- (These are my opinions and not those of my empoyer)
-