Is this hearing aid battery an over the counter battery?

gary350 said:

she has been nagging me for

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gary350 said:

I can do without hearing aids for a week.

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ZipZapOuch said:

You can't hear the nagging if you don't have the hearing aids!

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Nigel Goodwin said:

A young girl started at our local school (my wife works there), her name was Victoria, and she was 100% deaf from birth - shortly before she started school she had cochlear implants fitted, so as well as hearing normal audio the teachers wore a transmitter that linked directly to her implants.

What the teachers didn't realise, but all the other kids in the class did, if she was getting told off she turned her implants off, and never heard a single thing

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ZipZapOuch said:

And, if the teachers forgot to manage their transmitters appropriately, the poor girl may have also heard the teachers use the toilet.

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gary350 said:

I'm not loosing sleep over it but my wife is. Wife found a place that advertised hearing aids for $300. she has been nagging me for 2 weeks so we went there today. After the free hearing test they built 2 demos that work excellent but price is $4000. not $300, and $1000. extra for rechargeable batteries.

I will send my hearing aids in for repair price will be $600. minus $90 I already paid for the new amplifier for the right ear. I can do without hearing aids for a week. Our insurance pays for 90% of the bill. I think TNcare plus Humana both pay that is why we only have to pay about 10% of the bill but there is a limit I think its $1600. or $1800. total. Wife takes care of the bills.

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Ba Tomer J said:

If it was just a battery failure, why would it be so expensive? As far as I know, hearing aids usually use lithium polymer batteries, which can be made into any shape. $600 is enough for some battery manufacturers to customize the battery.

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Externet said:

Some devices with a manufacturer cost of -say $100- will happily have all its guts replaced for $600 for $500 profit and a pleased customer. It is called 'cover your ass' and 'ripoff' and a warranty claim will never harm profits.
I worked many years at fancy broadcasting audio processing equipment manufacturers where the main pcb cost was ~$500 for a unit sold at ~$5000. Lightning strikes were the cause of most failures, about half were not repairable burns. The company never had to argue with a claimant.

But it is still a ripoff...

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