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Originally Posted by fotze
I wore them longer after seeing this class action lawsuit that was settled when the company said they were in fact the same thing...
http://consumerlawpage.com/article/lenses.shtml
A court-approved settlement of a consumer class action settlement against Bausch & Lomb was announced on August 1, 1996.
Final approval of the proposed settlement is scheduled for hearing on Nov. 26 in Birmingham, Alabama to determine if it is fair to consumers. The fairness hearing will be two years after the court certified a national RICO class on behalf of all purchasers of Bausch & Lomb's Optima and Medalist contact lenses in November, 1994. See the Notice of Class Action Settlement for full details.
Under the settlement Bausch & Lomb will pay up to $68 million in cash and products to 1.5 million buyers of the company's disposable lenses. Many wearers will receive from $25 to $50 in cash and $25 to $50 in coupons under the settlement as a result of a class-action filed in May 1994 which alleged that the company sold the same product under different brand names at widely varying prices and engaged in a fraudulent marketing scheme in order to gain market share in the disposal lens market. The result was that some consumers paid much more because they believed they were getting different lenses. |
Bausch and Lomb is a very sketchy company. The make only a few types of lenses.
Like i said before..... it is the FDA that approves the material and wear time... not the company.