Nike MaxSight

[Jeffrey D Phillips]

I heard on another service that these are soon to be discontinued. Has anyone had success with these? Every trial we started ended in no acceptance by the patient for various reasons. I have given out a lot of lenses, but have not sold any. Anyone with success stories?

 

[Jeff Kiener]

Here's a success story: B&L got me to part with several hundred dollars for a fitting set plus inventory.

 

[Greg Vickers]

local golf pro tried a pair. Didn't go for it. I think football linemen liked the orange ones. Made them look tougher to the guy facing them. Haven't sold any.

 

[Scott Middlemist]

I heard on another service that these are soon to be discontinued. Has anyone had success with these? Every trial we started ended in no acceptance by the patient for various reasons. I have given out a lot of lenses, but have not sold any. Anyone with success stories?

I have had great success with these lenses - especially with baseball players - the amber lens works great with batting and 'seeing' the ball. On issue is cloudy conditions - it is far better in bright sunlight.

 

[Eugene Allen Gus Guthrie]

I have had some success with the lens. We required the patient to pay $60 over and above the standard fitting fee to try the lens. The $60 could be applied to the purchase of a supply if purchased with in 1 month, otherwise the money was considered a "specialty" fitting and dispensing fee.

Baseball players seem to like it the best. We have some football players in the lens, a few soccer players, and then one or two golfers, and tennis players.

 

[Benjamin Chudner]

I fit a young woman on a select soccer team and she loved them so much that the majority of the team came in for fittings. I do the same as the above poster in tems of charging. My fee is $300 for the fit and that includes the first 2 boxes if the lenses work.

My understanding was that the lenses will continue to be sold, but trials will no longer be available. I think B&L suggested using the SoftLens 38 as a trial pair.

 

[Eugene Allen Gus Guthrie]

I have been told that the trials are no longer available.

 

[mark schwartz]

i heard that they are discontinuing trials.not the lenses.ask rhonda she would be able to find out for sure.it was good to see u at the reunion. that was amazing that its been 25 yrs! you look the same! take care, mark schwartz

I heard on another service that these are soon to be discontinued. Has anyone had success with these? Every trial we started ended in no acceptance by the patient for various reasons. I have given out a lot of lenses, but have not sold any. Anyone with success stories?

 

[Jonathan Warner]

Discontinuing trials is usually what they do before discontinuing the revenue lenses. If they plan to keep the revenue product available indefinitely, why D/C trials? Have we ever been told to use one lens as trial to fit another lens which has no trials?

This sounds like another mistake by B&L. I thought for sure Joe Barr would straighten out their mess.

 

[John Anderson]

MaxSight

Here's my 2 cents worth. As discussed previously, we've had a problem with patients getting the trials and not returning to purchase (some probably didn't see any benefit but others are probably still using the trials). Even if you set your fees with a built in profit if they don't return....you make money but B&L hasn't earned anything.

Since the Maxsight lens is built on the Optima FW (SL38) platform it makes sense that we will still have a lens to trial for fit and clarity but the patient can't walk with the product and leave B&L out in the cold. To me its only fair. Yes, it is probably a sign that the line is struggling but this may help strengthen the financial return to B&L if they finally increase the number of purchased boxes.

We do have some loyal users but it clearly is not for everyone. I hope this stays with us for the long haul.

 

[Paul Clark]

I had an older male gardener who lives in a house by the lake. He loved the green lenses because they protected him from the glare off the water while he was gardening. Interestingly, he felt he could 'see' better which plants needed water by the colour he could see in them!

 

[Eugene Allen Gus Guthrie]

I wonder if I should market to the gardeners in the area?

 

[Chris Eiler]

I have heard there is a misunderstanding in the partnership between Nike and B&L. Nike feels "loaning" their name was enough, B&L felt Nike was going to help promote the lenses more than they have. Who knows?

 

[Jonovan Ottenbacher]

I tried out the amber ones for soccer and a running in general.

As has been mentioned, because most people don't use them often, the trials last a long time. I generally only used them for 1 soccer game a week, and as most people wear contacts for 1/2 to 1 month, or 15 to 30 days total, that's only 1 pair every half year or so at my rate, especially considering they only wear them a few hours a day rather than all day long.

Pro: they seemed to reduce the total amount of light and glare, which helped a lot on sunny days. Green grass was really pretty, too.

Con: the color distortion proved more problematic than beneficial. At times I couldn't tell which team a person was on and would occasionally pass the ball to someone on the wrong team because of this. However, the games were pick-up and we just sorted people by light and dark clothing, so I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem in more standardized games with strict color differences.

I don't know of any patients who actually bought more than a box.

I think it would be more practical to sell contacts that only reduce the amount of light rather than change the colors, as that is what was beneficial to me. Suncontacts. There might be a few troublesome times, such as driving through tunnels or enclosed parking structures, but I would definitely wear them if I was planning on being outdoors most of the day.