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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 3600586" data-attributes="member: 12449">Why should they? Maybe the brands they do sell online have better sales, maybe they have a better margin, is it really an issue?Probably one of the reasons is people like you using their physical stores as a free place to try them out, then taking their cash elsewhere to actually buy them. Bit like a parasite really.As for their prices being too expensive, do you expect them to start stocking and trading to the volumes as WEX and the other big optics companies? If not, they are not going to be in a position to offer cheaper prices. And if they did, sure someone would find reason to moan that they should be concentrating on conservation, not dealing in optics.</blockquote>