Buying

Hearing aid manufacturers

Jul 16th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Buying, Information

If you are thinking about buying a hearing aid, it’s good to do a bit of market research to find out what’s available. After all, hearing aids are expensive items and you want to do everything you can to make sure you purchase the right one for you.
When you visit a hearing aid vendor / [...]



America Hears: A customer’s view

Apr 24th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Buying

David from Hearing Mojo has blogged about his recent purchase from America Hears.
America Hears is a vendor that manufacturers and distributes hearing aids via the Internet. You send them an up-to-date audiogram and impressions of your ears and they will manufacture and mail back to you the hearing aid model of your choice. You are [...]



Hearing aid prices wanted

Apr 21st, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Buying

I have been thinking of ways that I could expand this blog so that I can offer services and tools that people would find useful. One of the things I would like to do is start a hearing aid price database.
The idea is that someone would be able to either enter a model and see [...]



Rayovac batteries at Specsavers

Mar 27th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Buying

Specsavers are selling boxes of 60 hearing aid batteries ( 10 x 6 packs ) for 18 pounds.
The batteries are branded as Specsaver’s own but they are actually Rayovac - so you can rely on them being of good quality.



Widex Inteo test drive

Jan 30th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Buying, Living with hearing aids

Melinda Beck has written in the Wall Street Journal about her experiences with a Widex Inteo aid. It’s an interesting article because it touches on some of the problems that new hearing aid wearers face, such as:
A rush of new sounds: New aid wearers will be hearing many sounds that they haven’t heard for a [...]