At the recent Vision Expo East conference in NY, late on the last day, Steffan found the Great Point Light stand. We were both really excited about it - Steffan because he wanted to sell the products we found there, me because I wanted to buy a bunch of them.

My wife Cristina has been using the products since then, including the LightWedge and the Wallet Magnifiers, and she is very happy with both of them, and (as usual) sending new clients to our website since she's a big believer. I only purchased one LightWedge but, since I haven't been able to get my hands on the one we have at home (since Crys is always using it), it looks like I'll have to pick up another one. Recommended.

We also have a great selection of Great Point Light products for sale now. Besides the LightWedge and the Wallet Magnifiers (which, as part of the over-40 club, will now become part of my standard equipment), I also plan to get the USB Flex Neck light.

In my next post, Steffan will cover European States and Internet Sales, in particular what the future holds!

I was coordinating a change to the VisionDirect.co.uk shipment scanning system the other day - the ability to get the DHL tracking number directly from the DHL EasyShip program so that scanning the order against the DHL bar code would catch any mistakes. In order to do so, I needed a DHL label to make sure the scanning would work. We agreed that the best way to get a DHL label to me was to DHL something down here to Spain. "What do you want?" I was asked (I LIKE those kind of questions). Since I was going skiing in Andorra to bring in the new year, I asked for ski goggles. Much to my delight, the arrived here at the office shortly before I left. Thanks, Steffan!

Well, I didn't set any ski records on this trip (I spent too much time teaching my 5 year old sweetheart Martina to ski), but I WAS very, very impressed with the goggles. The vision was excellent both in the morning / midday in the glaring sun, in the late afternoons when the mountains provided an early sunset on the lower slopes, and even on the day when we had heavy snow and a lot of wind. Also, despite being roughed up both by falls and by rushed packing (renting skis for 6, including 4 kids, tends to induce careless behavior), the goggles did not get scratched or broken (unlike the 28 EUR sunglasses I bought for my son Nick, which got broken within 6 hours of purchase). Also, the goggles were super comfortable - I totally forgot that I had them on. They just worked. The field of vision was great, the strap was great - they just blew me away.

Although the price you pay will be a bit higher than what I paid (can't get any cheaper than free), I feel very confident in highly recommending these goggles.

The VisionDirect.co.uk RSS newsfeed just reported that they are lowering their DHL shipping costs by one third during the holiday season. This is a nice gesture that allows contact lens users to avoid the usual jam in the Royal Mail services that occurs around the holidays. Kudos! [or "Déu n'hi do" as they would say in Catalan]

Dvice.com is reporting on "Eye Power", a machine that "correct near-sighted/myopic vision problems" and can "supposedly caress your eyes back to perfect 20/20 health".

Ummm, right. If you're buying for me for Christmas, I'd rather have the Cheeky Chimp air freshener...

I have another mailing from CoastalContacts.co.uk trying to move their European customers over to Lensway.co.uk. Coastal is a Canadian company which owns the Holland based Lensway, and it makes more sense for the sales to go through there. They are even giving a 10% "welcome" discount for switching. Anyone here how the marriage between Coastal and Lensway is going?

VisionDirect.com did a mailing offering a 10% off discount with coupon code HOLIDAYTEN up through December 11th. In addition, you can "Get a free air freshener when you buy any two Cheeky Chimp beauty products". Um, right.
Their stock dipped below $3/share before showing an uptick to reach $3.05. Knowing that more and more shopping is going to the Internet, and that they may soon reach profitability, the price actually looks tempting.

I've been hoping to see Christmas contact lenses (red and green eyes, reindeer eyes, something of that sort), but no go. Looks like I'll have to go to all the xmas parties with my baby blue's ;->

Although the prices are a bit out of my budget, and it's a bit late for Halloween, you have to love the variety of theatrical lenses available at 9mm SFX. I think I'll go for the "flames" design!