Hints of Sex, Violence, Fraud, and Intrigue

There's hints of sex, violence, fraud and intrigue. Why on an optical blog? It's all about a pair of LaFont eyeglasses and some Ciba CLs. And the online retailer DecorMyEyes.

In a New York Times article entitled “ Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Internet,” reporter David Segal writes about the company and customers. It starts more or less at this point:

It was the start of what Ms. Rodriguez would later describe as one of the most maddening and miserable experiences of her life. The next day, a man named Tony Russo called to say that DecorMyEyes had run out of the Ciba Visions. Pick another brand, he advised a little brusquely. “I told him that I didn’t want another brand,” recalls Ms. Rodriguez, who lives in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. “And I asked for a refund. He got rude, really obnoxious. ‘What’s the big deal? Choose another brand!’ ” With the contacts issue unresolved, her eyeglasses arrived two days later. But the frames appeared to be counterfeits and Ms. Rodriguez, a lifelong fan of Lafont, remembers that even the case seemed fake. Soon after, she discovered that DecorMyEyes had charged her $487...

And this is only the beginning!