Hearing aid fail

[roserodent]

Not sure if I am allowed to name names of the offending parties, but a national chain of hearing aid providers here in the UK has a special club you can join to get hearing aid batteries for half price. How do you order your batteries? Why, over the phone, of course. Buckets of fail.

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[codeman38]

They don't understand the whopping difference in what I can hear by phone compared to in person as the phone compresses all the frequencies into the ones I can't hear!

YES, YES.

This is pretty much my issue as well. I hear great in the bass and high treble frequencies (I listen to a lot of electronica because of this :-p). Those, naturally, are the ones that are horribly muffled over the phone.

And trying to explain to people that although I can hear them great face to face, I'm going to constantly be asking for repetition over the phone, just horribly confuses them because they likely don't even realize those frequencies are missing.