Jomtien opticians

[Londoner]

Something of a niche issue, perhaps, but there must be a number of posters who wear spectacles.  

Last year, my own pair needed adjustment while I was staying at the Agate and rather than going to my usual Top Charoen  I went to a small, very small, place run by just one guy almost directly across the soi from my hotel in the Jomtien Complex..

I was most impressed by the care he took in making the necessary adjustments and surprised that he refused to take payment despite my efforts to offer one.  

My partner had mentioned a few weeks ago that he'd like a new prescription for his and I suggested he wait until we came here to see what this local business could offer.

He spent a good forty minutes there last week and ordered both prescription and a new frame, including progressive and light-sensitive lenses, at a cost of 9000 bht. They arrived after only five days.

Like me , he was impressed with the service and the cost- his previous pair, bought in Pattaya Tai,  cost nearer 15000- and  so I wanted to  pass on this recommendation. 

A small business, run by one man, providing good service in competition with a huge chain. He deserves consideration if you need the service of an optician.

 

 

[PeterRS]

9 minutes ago, Londoner said:

He spent a good forty minutes there last week and ordered both prescription and a new frame, including progressive and light-sensitive lenses, at a cost of 9000 bht. They arrived after only five days.

Progressive lenses included in a 9,000 baht bill? This guy should open shops all over Bangkok where I Iast paid around 25,000 for frame and progressive lenses!

[vinapu]

1 hour ago, Londoner said:

 

A small business, run by one man, 

 

 

1 hour ago, PeterRS said:

This guy should open shops all over Bangkok 

as one man business there is danger each of those many shops would be opened only once per 15 days or so , no?

[PeterRS]

4 hours ago, vinapu said:

as one man business there is danger each of those many shops would be opened only once per 15 days or so , no?

Seems you have not opened a business. Sure, if you are happy as you are you can keep it as a one man shop. But you can also develop it through wholly owned shops with your own trained staff or you can franchise it. Either way, you end up with a great deal more profit, provided the end product remains high and price is more competitive than similar shops.

[vinapu]

4 hours ago, PeterRS said:

But you can also develop it through wholly owned shops with your own trained staff or you can franchise it. Either way, you end up with a great deal more profit, provided the end product remains high and price is more competitive than similar shops.

and then you  don't have business but business has you.

[Keithambrose]

4 hours ago, PeterRS said:

Seems you have not opened a business. Sure, if you are happy as you are you can keep it as a one man shop. But you can also develop it through wholly owned shops with your own trained staff or you can franchise it. Either way, you end up with a great deal more profit, provided the end product remains high and price is more competitive than similar shops.

Silly you!

[Olddaddy]

17 hours ago, Londoner said:

Something of a niche issue, perhaps, but there must be a number of posters who wear spectacles.  

Last year, my own pair needed adjustment while I was staying at the Agate and rather than going to my usual Top Charoen  I went to a small, very small, place run by just one guy almost directly across the soi from my hotel in the Jomtien Complex..

I was most impressed by the care he took in making the necessary adjustments and surprised that he refused to take payment despite my efforts to offer one.  

My partner had mentioned a few weeks ago that he'd like a new prescription for his and I suggested he wait until we came here to see what this local business could offer.

He spent a good forty minutes there last week and ordered both prescription and a new frame, including progressive and light-sensitive lenses, at a cost of 9000 bht. They arrived after only five days.

Like me , he was impressed with the service and the cost- his previous pair, bought in Pattaya Tai,  cost nearer 15000- and  so I wanted to  pass on this recommendation. 

A small business, run by one man, providing good service in competition with a huge chain. He deserves consideration if you need the service of an optician.

 

 

He is great that guy 

My glasses also broke ,I sat my big fat arse on them accidentally one evening 

He fixed for free 👍👍👍👍👍

[khaolakguy]

11 hours ago, PeterRS said:

Seems you have not opened a business. Sure, if you are happy as you are you can keep it as a one man shop. But you can also develop it through wholly owned shops with your own trained staff or you can franchise it. Either way, you end up with a great deal more profit, provided the end product remains high and price is more competitive than similar shops.

How many successful businesses with a chain of wholly owned shops or franchises have you owned?

[dellboy]

can someone please explain ....... progressive and light-sensitive lenses....

thanks in advance ! 

[Londoner]

Progressive glasses replaced the old bifocals,  combining both long-sighted and short-sighted deficiencies in one lense.

Light-sensitive lenses become darker in bright light. No more need for sun-glasses!

[Keithambrose]

25 minutes ago, Londoner said:

Progressive glasses replaced the old bifocals,  combining both long-sighted and short-sighted deficiencies in one lense.

Light-sensitive lenses become darker in bright light. No more need for sun-glasses!

Light sensitive lenses also called photochromic  lenses, or transitions.

[PeterRS]

6 hours ago, khaolakguy said:

How many successful businesses with a chain of wholly owned shops or franchises have you owned?

And what has that got to do with my earlier post? Nothing!

[PeterRS]

12 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

Silly you!

What a ridiculous childish response!

[Keithambrose]

8 hours ago, PeterRS said:

What a ridiculous childish response!

Talking of childish resonses, it takes one to know one!

[khaolakguy]

11 hours ago, PeterRS said:

And what has that got to do with my earlier post? Nothing!

It appears(you didn't answer the question) that you have no experience of the subject on which you were pontificating. The hypocrisy being that you were at the same time suggesting that another poster's opinion was invalid because :

On 3/20/2026 at 7:47 AM, PeterRS said:

Seems you have not opened a business.

 

Anyway thanks to Londoner for the information which has prompted reports of others' positive experiences of the same business.

[Keithambrose]

43 minutes ago, khaolakguy said:

It appears(you didn't answer the question) that you have no experience of the subject on which you were pontificating. The hypocrisy being that you were at the same time suggesting that another poster's opinion was invalid because :

 

Anyway thanks to Londoner for the information which has prompted reports of others' positive experiences of the same business.

Pontificating, hypocrisy, @PeterRS,  surely not! 

[PeterRS]

1 hour ago, khaolakguy said:

It appears(you didn't answer the question) that you have no experience of the subject on which you were pontificating.

You cannot be so totally dumb. Extending a business and franchising a business are both well-known means of increasing income from a business - if that is the objective. Ask the executors of Ray Kroc of McDonalds, 7-11, Walt Disney, Hello Kitty and a vast number of others, large and small. And you are wrong. I did work for the franchise of a major international company. Do not pontificate by making incorrect assumptions! 

54 minutes ago, Keithambrose said:

Pontificating, hypocrisy, @PeterRS,  surely not! 

Childish, again!

[Keithambrose]

20 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

You cannot be so totally dumb. Extending a business and franchising a business are both well-known means of increasing income from a business - if that is the objective. Ask the executors of Ray Kroc of McDonalds, 7-11, Walt Disney, Hello Kitty and a vast number of others, large and small. And you are wrong. I did work for the franchise of a major international company. Do not pontificate by making incorrect assumptions! 

Childish, again!

Thank you! One can see why you have driven people off the Board.

[vinapu]

1 hour ago, PeterRS said:

Extending a business and franchising a business are both well-known means of increasing income from a business - if that is the objective.

indeed.

I suspect  many small business owners are happy with what they generate and don't want to get into spiral of  " more work-more money -more work "  etc. I got it from plumber who does repairs in our building, He told me he accepts only 2 (two) orders a day maximum 

[PeterRS]

11 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

One can see why you have driven people off the Board.

And that is another piece of @Keithambrose nonsense. Proof is the currency of a lawyer's business!  Whom have I driven OFF the Board?

And when, as you have done with my PM, have I betrayed a confidence by publicising anothers PM? Pot calling something . . .?

On 3/21/2026 at 1:52 AM, khaolakguy said:

How many successful businesses with a chain of wholly owned shops or franchises have you owned?

Sorry, I was wrong in an earlier post. I have been the Asian CEO of two major international franchises. An apology would be in order, but coming from you? Little chance.

[PeterRS]

15 hours ago, khaolakguy said:

The hypocrisy being  . . .

I find it odd that of all members you write about hypocrisy. Because you have shown yourself to be be a hypocrite. This is @khaolak's modus operandi. He doesn't like a poster? Trash him. This is what he wrote about @Olddaddy on January 6 this year -

"This is just Olddaddy's method of operation as a troll since he first started posting here, under this name, three years ago."

Funny how an alleged troll still posts and still gets like and dislike emojis. And @Olddaddy is one of the most regular contributors, posting vastly more than @khaolakguy And this is what he wrote about me when I made a comment about nude photos being posted in an open thread - something that is not permitted under the Board's Code of Conduct - if only because they can been seen by anyone, including children, and could come to the notice of the Thai licensing authorities which could  possibly result in closing this Board.

On August 19 2025 he questioned poster @rd2077 -

Over the years you have posted this question several times and received answers. I don't think you ever shared your experiences. Have you ever made a trip?

 

Reading his earlier posts, he had indeed made trips which @khaolakguy clearly never bothered to check. There had also been a gap of 8 years from 2017 to 2025 between his trips. @khaolakguy's post as rude and uncalled for.

 

But more than once he has accused me of forcing posters off the Board, yet he can never name one! And there is a reason for that. I have never forced or sought out the Moderator to force anyone off the Board. End of discussion.

 

He did not llike my comments when one poster posted something like 12 new posts all under the same heading. Usually such posts would be a continuation of a post with the original heading. He wrote this on June 23 2025 -

 

@alexch Please continue sharing your information and expertise, either in this thread or a new one, and don't be discouraged by one troubled poster. 

 

Me troubled? Ha! Perhaps he will finally advise members - did I ever ask that poster to cease posting or say the posts were in any way anything other than interesting? No! But he later accused me of forcing @alexch off the board! Yet  i'm delighted to say @alexch is still contributing! 

 

He then accused me of forcing another member who had told lies about me in one sub-forum which I then corrected in another of forcing that poster off the Board. Well, odd that it is very simple to see that that member continues to read this Board almost every day!

 

Lastly I will without naming names state that he mentions my name in connection with one member who freely admitted in an earlier post that he had issues with anger manageent and had been to five anger management courses. Anger is an issue we all face from time. We all have to deal woth it in our own ways. i sympathise with that member. But I suggest that anger - at least in the form of a major disagreement - in some form or another will always appear on a chat room. 

 

And then on June 7 2025 he queried why I posted photos from a photo spread I had made ten years earlier, a re-spread that received many 'like' emojis. Clearly he considers he has a proprietary issue on this Board and does not accept that there must be thousands of new members since then (given the expansion of the original Gay Thailand into Gay Guides) who would not have seen that and other original photo posts.

 

Well, all members are different, and some have likes and some have disllikes. i know that a very few members like @khaolakguy and @Keithambrose will always seek to deride some of my posts for their own reasons. Fine! Such is posting life!

[Travelingguy]

Progressive lens can have far sight, near sight and an in between for reading a computer screen without traditional bi or tri focal lines on the lenses.  In today’s world, the lens for seeing screens is quite useful. 

[floridarob]

On 3/21/2026 at 1:28 AM, Olddaddy said:

He fixed for free 👍👍👍👍👍

your big fat arse?


 

 

1 hour ago, PeterRS said:

I find it odd that of all members you write about hypocrisy. Because you have shown yourself to be be a hypocrite.

Seems like a time to beep, beep , beep.... bring post back to what it's about.... imagine me having to do the honking, that shows how off topic it's gotten 🥺

[floridarob]

On 3/20/2026 at 8:03 AM, Londoner said:

A small business, run by one man, providing good service in competition with a huge chain. He deserves consideration if you need the service of an optician.

 

what is the name of the place, do you have a google maps link ro something.... or did I mess this in between the bickering ?

[mauRICE]

16 minutes ago, floridarob said:

what is the name of the place, do you have a google maps link ro something.... or did I mess this in between the bickering ?

I believe in it's on the ground floor of the multi-storey carpark in Jomtien Complex, you know the one that's been declared unsafe and abandoned.