{"id":12930,"date":"2006-11-26T06:52:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T23:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/consumer-test-laser-eye-surgery\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T04:15:23","slug":"consumer-test-laser-eye-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/consumer-test-laser-eye-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer test: Laser eye surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIf you have set your sights on treatment, go into it with your eyes wide openThe adverts promise perfect vision &#8220;from \u00a3395 per eye&#8221;. After wearing contact lenses for 20 years and watching the rise of high-street laser eye surgery over the past decade, I finally succumbed and went for a consultation. Would I at last be able to chuck away my glasses and, as one person I spoke to said, &#8220;laugh when I see my feet in the morning&#8221;?Sadly, no. Laser eye surgery, I was told halfway into my appointment with Optical Express, one of the leading clinic chains, is priced on a sliding scale. With a &#8220;-7.0&#8221; prescription in both eyes (I&#8217;m fairly short-sighted) surgery would cost \u00a32,590 or \u00a33,390. Following that experience it seemed a good opportunity to take a closer look at the small print. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2006\/nov\/25\/consumernews.moneysupplement1\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer test: Laser eye surgery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; If you have set your sights on treatment, go into it with your eyes wide&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-3my","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1902,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/should-i-have-laser-eye-surgery\/","url_meta":{"origin":12930,"position":0},"title":"Should I have laser eye surgery?","date":"October 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\r How much does laser eye surgery cost \u2013 and should I have it done at all?Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it's up to you to help him or her out \u2013 a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday's paper.This week's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7722,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inkjet-or-laser-printing-which-is-more-cost-effective\/","url_meta":{"origin":12930,"position":1},"title":"Inkjet or laser printing: which is more cost-effective?","date":"March 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\r With the standard inkjet cartridge now producing a measly 200 pages, we look at whether laser printers represent a cost-effective alternative for the home consumerBack in 1969, a graduate named Gary Starkweather, working in the copier department at Xerox in the US, had a visionary idea. 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