What is the Nulltariff offered by filemann for optics?

Question

What is the Nulltariff offered by filemann for optics?

Answer 1

While it is really possible to get glasses for free at Fielmann, most people end up paying for their glasses. Because once you are in the shop you start picking up frames at random, looking at the shape and the style rather than whether you can get them for free. Fielmann frames are good quality, it is worth paying around 50 EUR for a slightly more stylish frame. I once got my glasses from another chain - never again. The frame disintegrated after 6 months and I needed new ones.

The downside of Fielmann is that they are unable to offer more complicated lense-work. They offer cheap, good quality service to run-off the mill cases but not much more. I got diagnosed with needing prisma-lenses and the Fielmann people were not competent enough to do this. They did not even have the correct prefab-lenses, but tried to make do with setting normal lenses in at a certain angle. I first paid 250 EUR at Fielmann (lenses and setting in work plus 50 EUR frame), then ended up going to a small, private business paying another 500 for the correct lenses. (I kept the frame I got from Fielmann, just got new lenses. )

Answer 2

It's nothing worth, actually. You have a small selection of frames that cost you nil; but the better frames, you'll have to pay for. And the glasses aren't paid for, under no circumstance. They have their "catch 22": You can opt for additional insurance for the frame (they won't tell you; you'll think it's about the glasses, too) which is valid for three years. Now, they didn't pay when my glass and the frame broke, as it was caused by my joyous mother's dog (She ran over me. The dog, not my mother.) "Family members are not insured."

Could'a killed the dog!

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edit:

@Bernd, you think I'm wrong? You haven't lived without insurance in Germany yet, I suppose.

Answer 3

Nulltarif Fielmann is ment to be:

your first glasses are for free (glass and frame) and you got to chose from Fielamanns collection and this collection is very good, got all kind of frames and you pay nothing.

don't believe that bs Alwin E is telling you.

Answer 4

It means the frame doesn't cost anything....

But you will still have to pay for the actual glasses that are being put in the frame

Answer 5

Alwin E is completly wrong.

glass and frame are for free as long as you choose from a Fielmann collection (cheap). The first glasses are for free if you chose a frame and glass from their program and that collection is alright but not fancy. I got my first glasses there and I have paid nothing at all, still have those glasses and they are still alright.

Even if you go for some better looking frame or better make it is still cheap compared to other optics.

Just go to a Fielmann shop and have a look.