Why You Should Use Glasses Gripper

Save Time Assembling, Adjusting & Repairing Eyeglasses

For retail optical remakes due to accidental scratching a patient’s lens, the optician spends at least a half hour working with patient a second time, re-doing start to finish. The estimated cost of her time will be $40 per remake. Remakes also take the time of a lab optician, who spends anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes re-edging the work. The estimated cost of his time is $30 per remake. If you factor in the work other staff is being taken away from, such as facilitating sales, the total estimated cost comes to $72.50 per remake.

Increase Your Return Of Investment

This eyeglass lens was accidentally scratched when the optical tool slipped from the nose pad screw. Glasses Gripper keeps the glasses from moving while you safely and securely adjust a pair of glasses.

"There was no accidental scratching of patients frames or lenses while using a Glasses Gripper!"

– Karen F. Lab Tech, Berne, Indiana

Prevention of damage to lenses will reduce costs and increase profitability for wholesale labs and retail opticals alike. The average cost of replacing a ruined lens in a retail optical is $72.50.

A retail optical office will save an estimated $800 to $1,000 per year by preventing 1 damaged lens a month.
A wholesale lab will save over $4,000 per year by preventing 2 damaged lens a week.

Wholesale Labs

Wholesale optical labs spend a lot of time considering how to save money. Slim profit margins make spoilage remakes costly, which reduces your ROI. Using Glasses Grippers to insert lenses or tighten screws will increase your bottom line by greatly reducing spoilage. For labs averaging 200 jobs per day (400 lenses), their total spoilage rate, including accidental scratches is .04%. (multiply by .004) That equates into 1.6 ruined lenses a day. At an average of $30 a lens, that equals $48 a day and $12,480 a year!

Additionally, the average time a doctor’s office must wait for a lens you accidentally ruin is 4.4 days. When you use a Glasses Gripper for all your finishing work, you’ll increase customer satisfaction with increased speed of service.

"Glasses Grippers work well with odd shaped temples or hard to fit screws. I was able to put more pressure on the eyewire screw without losing control of the frame or screw head."

Brian Frecker, Lab Manager, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Retail Opticals

For retail opticians, spoilage costs are even higher. The average time an optician spends working with a patient remeasuring and refitting a remake is at least half an hour. The estimated cost of her time added to the costs of the lab charge to remake a lens comes to an average of $72.50 per remake.

Additionally, your patient will have to wait an average of 4.4 days to receive their remade glasses. When you use a Glasses Gripper for all your lens insertions, glasses adjustments and repairs, you’ll be saving time and money.

Glasses Gripper Reduces Injury

Eliminate painful hand injuries from sharp tools. Research shows stab wounds are the worst part of an optician’s profession. 100% of opticians eventually stab themselves in the course of their job.