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So you’re in Ireland and you want to order contact lenses, you say? You might stumble upon Feel Good Contacts through a search engine like DuckDuckGo as they seem to have the cheapest prices. Nice…

Until the time comes to reorder. If you’re not careful, your reorder will cost considerably more.

So what do you do?

Go back to the search engine, search for your specific brand of lenses + “cheapest” and follow the link to get the lower price.

Oh how I hate capitalism.

#contactLenses #ireland

Screenshot of earlier invoice showing that I paid €115.20 for the lenses.
Screenshot of shopping basket after hitting the reorder button. Total to pay is €162.35 (Including an additional €3.95 shipping fee that wasn’t in the original. On the interface it reads: “An Post Tracked - Free over €9999”. And that’s not a typo, it really does say €9999.)
Screenshot of DuckDuckGo search, showing the Feel Good Contacts ad. Clicking through that gives you the discount.
Screenshot of the shopping basket after adding the lenses having followed the link from DuckDuckGo. Total to pay is €119.15.
#ireland #contactlenses
in reply to Aral Balkan

masukomi
masukomi
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so much of capitalism seems indistinguishable from simply immoral greed.
in reply to Aral Balkan

Pauxlll Kruczynski
Pauxlll Kruczynski
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this sounds not much different than many US health solutions, sadly
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Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥
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This annoying practice allows them to charge more for people who are not price sensitive and less for those who are, rather than charging a price in the middle. The most common form of this is coupons. Some companies like Walmart respond to those who don't like this by offering good prices without the games.
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