In Reply to: Queries about elephants & specs posted by Freogal on Wednesday, 20. June 2012 at 09:32 Bali Time:
To give you an idea, I'm just averagely short sighted and was quoted about $400AUD from my local optometrist for generic frames and lenses.
Instead I used an optometrist in Discovery shopping mall in Kuta/Tuban and paid about $220AUD which is nowhere near as cheap as you can get in Bali but it was a designer brand name frames and lenses and I was happy with the price.
When I went for my last eye test at my local optometrist they asked where I got my glasses and then proceeded to tell me Bali glasses are never the right prescription, blah blah blah. So they went and tested them and found the prescription was PERFECT.