TS

I have a profound hearing loss with almost zero word recognition. At the beginning of this year I purchased a Starkey X-Series 70 Power aid. My previous aid was a Starkey Destiny 1200 Power Plus and before that was a Sumo XP.

It took a few trips to the audiologist to get the X-Series adjusted properly for and I thought it was working very nicely for my loss. That is until one day I was playing sports and decided to wear my old Sumo to prevent any damage to the new aid. I was surprised the old Sumo helped me hear better and I stopped wearing the new aid until the Sumo finally clonked out.. Now I want another Sumo but I don't want to be stuck with the other new aid that I may not wear.

The Starkey X-Series is a very nice aid with touch controls (water resistant) but it's just not for me.

Are we allow to advertise and sell on our own aids (I presume not as they are medical devices) or are there any other options for me to get rid of it? I will not donate as I paid $2200.

Any advice will be appreciated.

TS

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green427

I've done it on eBay. The only thing you need to do is to attach their universal disclaimer to your description of the sale. If you do that, you are relieving yourself of any responsibility of any medical results happening to the buyer. If you sell it to someone in person, have them sign a disclaimer if you give them a bill of sale.

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Sarfarigirl2011

yeah and besides for me, I'm passing all my personal hearing aids down to my crazy kids someday. :3

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lovezebras

Not in all countries ...you can't sell your hearing aids in canda so you may want to double check depending on where you live

drphil

Since Hearing aids are for a specific person-you-hard to "sell/give away" to another person with "them" going to an audi to "adjust it to them"-without incurring "service fees".

Most of us can't perform the necessary "adjustment" as we aren't audiologist.

Something to consider before trying to sell our hearing aids.

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lovezebras

In the states you can buy other peoples hearing aids and get them adjusted to your own personal hearing needs. However, in Canada a hearing aid is seen as a medical device kind of like a prosthesis so you cannot sell your hearing aids in Canada another audi won't program it. I couldn't even give my old hearing aids to my grandfather.

Audiofuzzy

Really? I'm surprised.
how do you know that?

I have seen a few ads on Craigslist from BC area:
vancouver, BC all for sale / wanted classifieds "hearing aids" - craigslist

what do you make of this?


Fuzzy

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Bottesini

It's fairly obvious it would be bought by people who won't bother getting them reprogrammed.

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rockin'robin

Seems to me that if you bought the HA, then you can sell it and people will buy anything regardless. Bit believe there is a Club that you can donate ur HA to if you really would like to help someone who cannot afford a HA...same as for the Lions Club who help with Glasses here in Jacksonville.

lovezebras

I was told by more than one audiologist that you can't re-sell anyone's ha's here due to it being a personal medical product and they have to be bought through a professional. If you bring a set of hearing aids that isn't registered to the owner (each serial number for that hearing aid is registered to the person they're sold to) then the audiologist or hearing instrument specialist etc *in Canada* is not supposed to program them. Like I said...I couldn't even give my old aids to my grandfather because no audi would program them saying it isn't allowed.

Audiofuzzy

Thanks Alicia.


hmmm it's stinks. I wonder if there actually exist a law that specifically says the hearing aid can not be re-sell, and more interesting - can not be re-programmed.
I want to see this particular law in writting.

Otherwise, I believe it's them fricking audi sellers who make us believe this,
and end up with more money by selling brand new hearing aids over and over again! grrrrr

Fuzzy

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Grummer

its about the same as selling your personal viberator

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Audiofuzzy

First of all, it's a vibrator, second I beg to differ.

Vibrator is something like toothbrush - something very intimate that goes inside your body.
The hearing aid is not- only the ear mold is, but of course you do not use
somebody else ear mold, you make your own.

If you are particularly "icky", you can even buy new outer case for your 'new' used hearing aid - but imo that's completely unnecessary.
A good wipe of the exterior with a rubbing alcohol or other sanitizer would suffice.

It's no different than buying for example used cell phone.

Fuzzy

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AlleyCat

That's so interesting how it's different in Canada than the US. Here in the US a HA is viewed by medical insurance companies as more of a "cosmetic" device than anything else, hence why it's not covered by most of them.

Smithtr

Do you have warrantly replace hearing aid? Canada I have replace on warrantly allow on , I speak audiology cuz i speak said they said issues damaage pretty bit cause on happened on pretty few inside,, I have already replace it cover

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Grummer

...so you can't afford a viberator? thats a shame isn't it? so you use old cell phone viberator as a subsitute?

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Grummer

has anyone seen used Hearing aids on Ebay? i havent

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Reba

I just checked. There are over 4,000 listings for "hearing aids" on eBay.

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Grummer

shit, really
wow and we're having a thread about it?!

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Grummer

what about second hand viberators?
lol

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ambrosia

I honestly would not be shocked to find that someone would list, or someone would buy, a second hand vibrator. There seems to be no shortage of stupid, crazy, or crazy stupid people in this world.

Even if someone lived in Canada they could still sell it to someone in the US, or anywhere else really, where there isn't laws against.

caz12

you can donate specks,i find it strange you can donate HA not sure you can in uk but maybe wrong

Grummer

they do it in NZ, and in fact i gave away my old hearing to my mate, because he didnt like the digital aids, and the hossy were wankers so pushy on digital and I KNOW they do sell an analogue type - Unitron - why they don't? too cheap obviously they want incentives fro big brands and big proifits for big names- dirty corporate, i for one is going to go back to analogue next year when i can afford a spare $500 - which right now i dont - had been buying video equipements for filming

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