jojo1010

My husband is deaf, he bought the Digital ear piece he had problems with the ear piece from day one, the year warrant is up and we have to pay $180.00 to get the receiver fix.
I called the Corp. office and they said I had to pay this price.
Any suggestions to what can I do?

Deafness

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lilitalia89

well i know it's more espensive, but i would of gone with a reputable hearing aid company instad like phonak, siemens, starkey, etc If the warranty is up for any ha tho ur gonna have to pay ..not really sure wat else you can do, maybe talk to an audi

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jojo1010

Thank you, for your reply
I thought Miracle Ear was a great company
We can't afford another ear piece because we are still paying for this one now we have to pay $180.00 more.

lilitalia89

i haven't really heard of them all that much..
Maye after u are done paying 4 that one u can try to sell it?
look in2 you local vocational rehab i think its called or lions club or something...sometimes they will donate used hearing aids!
if u dont mind me asking where are u from?

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jag

My mom purchased aides from miricle ear in the 90's. She had to pay to get them fixed at least once a year. Finally gave up and got some frorm a different company. SOunds like they havn't changed much.

deafdyke

jojo, actually no. Miricle-Ear is basicly a ripoff. Miricle-Ear, Beltone etc aren't real audis..........they're hearing aid dispensors. If you go see a dealer, you won't get the same qaulity of care as you will from a REAL reputable audi.

SteveAUD

FYI......

Miracle Ear is owned by Siemens

Beltone is owned by GN Resound

Most of the time you are fit by a hearing aid dispenser, not an audiologist.

Your husbands hearing aid is out of warranty, but when it gets fixed it should come back with a 6mo or 12mo warranty attached to it. Ask the dispenser which he is getting. What exactly is the problem with the aid? Is it dead?

Pinky678

If you have a medicare or medicaid will cover for hearing aids. Do you want to have an ITC or ITE?? ITC mean In the canal or In the ear. The miracle Ear is for hearing people. They have a hearing loss in mild. I never go to Miracle Ear because I am not hearing. I am deaf. I went to a special audie.

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SouthFella

Miracle Ear = Miracle Whip

Beltone = BellyUp

The ole days of nicknaming those two overpriced hearing aid companies.. sigh

SteveAUD. interesting when did Semiens buy out Miracle Whip ? and RNsound buy out BellyUp ?

cdaigle430

Miracle ear is owned by American Hearing Technologies. They are the low guys on the quality list. You cna find one in many Sears stores. My Miracle Ear has been in and out of the shop numerous times in the 4 years I had it. I've had my Phonaks for the same amount of time and they are still going strong-no shop time.

deafdyke

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.............
ITC and ITE aids SUCK....they really just are a paen to vanity.

SteveAUD

Siemens and Resound are businesses, Miracle ear and Beltone are simply the "retail" chain extension of their companies. Surprisingly though, my outside Siemens sales rep could not get me the software for miracle ear, he himself who works for the company who owns them doesn't have access to it.

jag

The quality between the mircle ear and Siemens is different. I've had Siemens aides and not have many problems with them, my mom had mircle ear and had nothing but problems on an at least yearly basis.

I havn't been into my dispenser since the place was sold have any of your heard much about Audible? Just wondering since that's the company that my dispenser sold his business to and advertisments make it sound like it has it's own line of HAs? not sure about that tho since as I said I have not been in there.

jag

a person with a mild/moderate and even just entering the severe range can get good results from ITE's and ITC's. If one is comfortable with them so be it. It is actually nice not to have to worry about wearing glasses and aides from what I've heard. What you like may not be what I like. My 23 yo daughter still wears her digital ITE (could not get ITE's because of small ear canal) A person who has a good size ear canal can get great results from a smaller device. I have a smaller canal and ear structure but did get good results for quite some time, once the hearing dropped into the severe range they ITE's became less helpful and BTE was needed.

SteveAUD

Quality I can't speak of, but the technology is shared between the two.


Audibel is a sister company of Starkey.