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LOL if you're so desperate to meet me like you claim you are then you can tell me where YOU are because I'm sure as heck not telling you where I am. I'd much rather talk to a journalist than one of Sasha's alias's.

You're the one hiding scared of Moulsdale. I'm hiding from no-one which is why I'm tracking down Anon to help him/her expose Sasha. When Anon has enough information to publish their story I will gladly allow my name to be used. Unlike you I will eventually reveal who I am whilst you will spend the rest of your life cowering from Moulsdale.

@wondering I notice how you couldn't help but interject yourself when I was asking Sasha about Optimax. What makes me laugh is you interject then start trying to act like you are being attacked unprovoked. The mere fact you keep interjecting whenever someone asks Sasha about Optimax just strengthens my belief that you are nothing but a character created by Sasha. I mean seriously no-one could be that scared of Moulsdale in real life!

Yea lol  moulsdale really seems to scare  me cant you tell ?
Well since you seem so keen to know who I  why won't you meet me ? Don't worry if it turns out you are a Moulsdale worker you will be dealt with the utmost sympathy , and of course I will help you find a new job worth doing.

You must be really scared because you are doing overtime for Moulsdale for free It seems to me.
Still doesn't explain why you won't meet me . You keep telling me and us all about this evidence you have about Sasha etc.  u criticise me. U have previously asked me to reveal my identity .yet when I offer to buy you dinner you start deflecting and going on about sasha and Optimax  .
Why Wont you meet me , do you not want me to know
Who you are ?

@Sasha
Wrong again.  I'm not Patrick either.   Check your emails for Jan/Feb 2012, after your post on lasik eyes in December 2011.  I was obviously not sufficiently important for you to bother with.  A sign of unjustified arrogance perhaps.

Please keep on at PJG - when you go too far and actually accuse him of murder his retaliation will make good news. How did you two become so pally in the first place?  Be careful that he doesn't actually get charged with bribery.  In court, you would be forced to disclose all of your dealings with Optimax (including the gagging clause and agreement to co-operate).  Your friend Mr Ambrose wouldn't like that because it could open him up to similar charges.

You have deliberately avoided the direct questions yet again - deny the existence of a gagging clause in your settlement with Optimax and explain why you have taken your Optimax site and associated Twitter account down.  Once you've done that you can try explaining the emails.

@Wondering
You seem keen on offering new jobs.  Are you, perhaps, a recruitment consultant? or just possibly have high level contacts with Optimax ? ;)

Regardless of his alleged sexual peccadilloes, temper and unsavoury acquaintances David Moulsdale is probably doing the only thing that he can with his business. He is running a low margin, high turnover business selling luxury/non-essential services in a recession.  Like Optimax he relies entirely on turnover.  When the customers disappear, one of the few ways that can carry on is to cut structural costs - ie the shops and staff that cost him money every month without bringing in the revenue.  Unpalatable perhaps, but pragmatic. If Optimax is not trying to pare costs as well, I'd be surprised.  Now is not the time to have laser eye surgery with either of them.

Wondering, "," <---- this is a comma, please start using them. Your butchering of the English language hurts my eyes.

Hurts your eyes as much as Optical Express?

Lol . Cheers , not sure if I've got time to spell or grammer check!

Think you got the wrong address Grammar Man!

Let me give you directions >>>  http://www.glitch.com/forum/bugs/20336

Huh? Now we know 'Wondering doesn't know much about OE because no sane person would defend the vermin Hugh Kerr. I think that 'Wondering' should spend sometime with him and get to know him. Hugh Kerr feeds Moulsdale poison relating to staff and stores in order to strengthen his own position. OE as a company deteriorated further upon his second coming.

Just imagine if OE was sold and the new buyers inherited Hugh Kerr, how funny would that be? And I'm not saying that because he looks distinctly like the late comedian Frank Carson.

And please 'Wondering' don't insult the intelligence of people writing on here bay calling Hugh Kerr a 'fall guy'. You have have no idea what this man has done and is capable of!

If you know David Moulsdale you will know how much he knows about what's going on on the ground in his business . If he wanted the likes of Hugh. Kerr running around its because he chose to . You tell David Mouksdale that Hugh Kerr is ruining OE and tell him to run OE himself . He might have time since he has down scaled. . See what he says . Moulsdale got rid of Kerr and brought him back . Do you really think he doesn't know what his senior employees are about and how they conduct themselves ? I'm not defending Hugh Kerr   If he is doing everything he has to do right now it's probably not a pretty job- David chose him after all .Thd difference is he is also probably doing what David told him to do and it would be very naive I think for us all to think David Moulsdale doesn't know .This is probably the kind of person David Likes employing !

I think That's what businessmen do . If they want to get rid of a few people im sure they aren't going to come to your shop to do it themselves they will get someone else to do it .

Did David Moulsdale personally attend any store closures ? Just wondering.  ?How much warning was issued to people being made redundant ?

I think you should call up David Moulsdale and tell him what you think .

I personally think David should just go find something else to do which does not involve employing people because I don't think he's a people person , I don't think he would know a good employee if that individual walked around with a sign on their head sent from the Almighty himself .
He created in my view a backstabbing horrible culture at Optical Express and now he should lie in the consequences of having lots of people leave and him think that it wasn't significant to the business growth or success and in my view for him to be so arrogant to think that it wasn't his fault and that maybe he should start thinking about how he is going to start treating hard working people with respect and creating a culture and management that promotes that .

But I don't think he will because I don't think he cares . I personally think the creep is probably interested in getting laid . And what kind of example could he possibly be setting that could be making any management team successful ? Dunno but doubtful . He should just sell and move on  I think . It's sad but some people just don't in my grew deserve to take that kind of responsibility if they can't be respectful of the opportunities it provides them .

For anybody interested check out Mailonline money page

Administrators at accountant PKF are working on winding up a subsidiary of Optical Express, one of the largest optician chains in the country. About half of the 80 shops are expected to close and the company admits it cannot guarantee jobs.
Optical Express chairman and chief executive David Moulsdale said: ‘Most of the closures are in locations that have been significantly impacted by markedly reduced trade, due to both competition from shopping centres and reduced consumer spending due to the challenging economic climate.’
While few of the major chains reveal financial or customer figures, a recent report by researcher Mintel said: ‘Optical goods, especially spectacles, are a discretionary purchase and the recession has dented demand.’
Chris Bennett, editor of Optician magazine, agreed, saying: ‘Opticians are having a tough time. Eye exams are down, specs prices are down and the number of people asking for reglazes, that is, upgrading lenses but keeping their existing frames, is up. The market as a whole is down, but it’s not fallen off the edge of a cliff just yet.’An ageing population means there will always be demand for glasses, but free eye care for pensioners and children mean that paying customers are subsidising the rest of the market, which is why eye exams and glasses can feel so expensive, a perception not helped by a damning Which? report last year that found a third of the opticians it surveyed were ‘not up to scratch’.
Competition is fierce with the big brands such as Specsavers, Vision Express, and the recently merged Dollond & Aitchison and Boots Opticians, able to outgun the marketing budgets of the independents.
While shops on the High Street have high rents and business rates to cope with, online doesn’t look much more encouraging. Prescription Eyewear, the parent company of Glasses Direct, set up by entrepreneur Jamie Murray Wells when he was just 21, was supposed to file its accounts with Companies House by the end of August, but more than three months later, they are yet to materialise.
However the situation is even worse in the laser eye surgery sector, which is dominated by three players – Ultralase, Optical Express and Optimax.
Troubled Ultralase was put up for sale earlier this year by its bank owners, headed by RBS and Barclays, just two years after a pre-pack administration saw the lenders take control of the private equity-owned company. One leading eye surgeon told Financial Mail: ‘The problem is that the laser eye surgery market has fallen 40 per cent since the recession as it is such a discretionary spend.
‘If people are worried about their jobs and money then they are not going to be spending hundreds of pounds on surgery which they could put off until they feel more financially secure.
‘It’s been tough for everyone but the private equity firms are highly leveraged with large amounts of debt, which make them much more vulnerable to a downturn.’
Barrett said: ‘There was a feeling that laser eye surgery was going to take the world by storm – but it didn’t.’
Russell Ambrose introduced laser eye surgery to Britain when he founded Optimax in 1991. Last week he told Financial Mail: ‘There’s a price war going on out there. It is an expensive item and so everyone has been dropping their prices, but even so people are coming into stores and haggling to get even lower prices, which is something that never used to happen.’
Ambrose, who owns the entire company and who has never sought outside funding or bank debt, predicts the industry will soon consolidate and admitted he is ‘sniffing around’ Ultralase.
However there are some reasons why the view ahead may not be so bleak. Optical Express revealed to Financial Mail that it is to open 40 new combined opticians and laser surgery clinics from the New Year.
A spokesman said: ‘This allows us to expand our business by leveraging our existing clinic and store portfolio whilst opening up relatively low-cost consultation centres that do not burden the business with high rental costs.’
And technology could yet save the day. New ‘multi-focal’ lenses that are inserted into the eye are undergoing trials and could be offered on the High Street.
‘It is really going to take off in the next few years,’ promises Russell. But will it come quick enough for the industry to look to the future with more confidence?

Nail in the coffin for more stores me thinks

@ a concerned glaswegian - I don't think Wondering knows much about anything OE related apart from Moulsdale's x'mas parties. She/he/it seems determined to meet me regarding the information I have about Sasha which further strengthens my belief that she/he/it is an alias of the flip-flop vendor. Anon(the original0 i'm still trying to track you down. I've got an e-mail I think you would like to see.

Do I sound like a sasha alias to you ? Listen - stop harrassing me if you haven't got the balls to meet me !. It's not my fault your boss ( prob David Moulsdale ) is in my view the biggest plonker on the planet and that you probably can't find another job .

And the best both of you have probably got is to sit on a forum dissing people you probably haven't got the guts to meet !
Losers .

Unless in another time zone rwi posted @ 2.30 this morning!

I was up late last night so I did post at 2.30am. Guts to meet Wondering tell me where you are and I will gladly meet up with you. Since you're the one constantly pushing for a meeting tell me where you are and I'm sure I can arrange a meet. If you're not prepared to do that then shut up about wanting to meet me. If you think I'm giving my address out on this forum you must be joking and if you're not prepared to give out your address stop harping on about wanting to meet. I'm not sure why you want to meet so badly as you obviously have nothing to offer in terms of useful information.

As far as dissing goes(what are you 12?) you constantly interject yourself every single time Anon or myself ask Sasha about her Optimax gagging order. You constantly attack both of us despite us both saying that regulation is needed for the laser eye surgery industry which includes both OE and Optimax a fact that Sasha seems to forget. All LASIK companies need government regulation not just the ones that haven't paid Sasha a large sum of money.

@wondering you sound exactly like a Sasha alias constantly accusing anyone who doesn't agree with Sasha of being an OE employee while avoiding the topic of Sasha's Optimax pay off and gagging order.

And you sound like a broken record .all I've done on this forum is give my opinions on that plonker David Moulsdale and you have been acting like a harrassing psycho with delusional comments like I'm a Sasha Alias .

No I'm not . Im also not twelve but a dinosaur like yourself? I'm surprised you know was dissing is .
Just so you know I reserve adult speak for those who get adult speak and act like adults .

Why don't you give me a time and location and we can meet no problem . As you are well aware it is not safe to plaster my full address on the Internet but if you want to visit my house too you are more than welcome after we meet I'll tell you where I live too . Don't worry potential stalkers don't scare me .

Whatever gets you off my back . No I'm not desperate to meet you but you seem to be desperate to tell me tales about how what sasha may and may not be doing - which quite frankly I don't give a toss about .Like a child which is why I'm speaking to you like a child . Get it?

You are the big mouth who wanted me exposed blah blah blah . Well I'll now look forward to hearing this time and place where we will meet. .