S.C. Code Ann. § 40-38-370
Persons excepted from application of chapter.
This chapter does not apply to: (1) physicians licensed in this State for the practice of medicine or osteopathy; (2) optometrists licensed under the laws of this State to practice optometry; or (3) persons who sell as merchandise from an established place of business ready-made eyeglasses or spectacles if the person does not aid the purchaser in the fitting of the eye glasses or spectacles.