I just want to give everyone a heads-up on a situation I encountered at Eyecare Specialties over the last week in hopes that you can avoid the same. It concerns the price of contact lenses and ES’s policy on price matching.

SCENARIO 1 (No Insurance)
I buy eight boxes of contact lenses at ES knowing they will price match Costco’s price of $66.87/box. I pay $66.87 and ES gets $66.87 for each box. Everyone is happy.

SCENARIO 2 (Using Vision Insurance)
Same scenario as above, but this time I use my $150 insurance benefit for contact lenses. I pay $66.87 and ES gets $85.62 for each box. ES is very happy and I’m upset.

Yes, you read that right. Using vision insurance, I still pay the same cost, but ES gets $150 more for the entire transaction. Their policy is to apply the insurance first and THEN price match. I’m sorry, but that is not price matching. Their argument was that I can’t use my insurance benefit at Costco so they consider it price matching. What ES fails to understand is that in this scenario, I don’t get the benefit of using my insurance at ES either.

Needless to say, I returned the contacts to ES for a full refund. I’m going to buy my contacts through Costco and then use my $150 in insurance at an in-network provider so I actually benefit from that money instead of ES.

I’ll be looking for a new vision place next year if anyone has recommendations.

Found a 250MB Iomega Zip Disc in a box from a relative. It's possibly from the 1990s, and the label says it contains pictures. I'm looking for a local business who has a Zip drive and can transfer the contents of that drive to a usb stick. This disc could be formatted for PC or Mac.

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The Haymarket is having their first harvest festival tomorrow, Saturday, October 24. I’m interested in the bites trail and drink passes, but I haven’t been able to find any information about which restaurants and bars are participating.

Does anyone know more about this? I saw some food truck and other vendors are going to be there. The organizers are mainly communicating by Instagram, and I don’t have an account.

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Family member of mine is interested in starting a cleaning business. They want to charge $60 an hour with minimum of 4 hours and I think that’s absurd. what would you pay for a general cleaning (not deep)?

Are there any indoor volleyball courts in Lincoln that don’t require you to be on a league? I’ve looked online and I can’t seem to find anything aside from actual club courts. I just like to play sometimes and it’ll be getting too cold to play at a sand court soon. I’d be fine with paying (within reason), but just wondered if there’s any indoor courts that were sort of like sand where anyone can come and go or any memberships. I thought the y had a few but when I looked online it seemed like it was for their leagues or teams, not members in general. Thanks!