my day at a commercial eye place...and questions

A couple months ago I needed a new glasses prescription(I usually wear contacts but wear glasses maybe 1 day a week)....it had been about 3 years since I last got a prescription, so needed another one. Driving home from work, a saw an ad.....basic eye exams for 39.99, or advanced eye exams for 59.99. At some commercial place in a large sorta run down shopping center. 39.99? What the heck can anyone get for 39.99 these days? Gotta be a catch right? I walk in and ask a guy wearing a polo shirt too small and no undershirt how much it will cost to get a prescription for eyeglasses? He points at the sign and says "just like it says". Then I ask- "so it's not going to be one of those bait and switches where you hook me with a 39.99 offer and then add a lot of stuff at the end to make it 120 bucks or so? The guy says "nope, if anything else needs to be done we would tell you ahead of time"....then I ask about the 59.99, and what I can get for an extra 20 bucks....he doesn't really seem like he knows what he is talking about, but I go along with it anyways as I don't know that I have ever had an 'advanced' eye exam. Well ok, let's rock and roll with this I'm thinking. The place is pretty empty, although off in a corner I see someone helping someone put on contacts(at least it looked like it). They usher me back in a room where some guy in his late 20's/early 30s introduces himself as 'James'. I look on his nametag and it says he is the optom...
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