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Are any of the Costco aids rebranded Starkeys?

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Starkey Tech Now at Costco: SoundGear AMP Hearing Aids Debut in Select Stores63

Costco adds SoundGear AMP, featuring Starkey’s Edge technology, in a limited pilot program. The rollout brings the final “Big 5” global hearing aid maker into Costco’s growing mix of premium prescription hearing aids.

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Great. Thanks. I actually have a neighbor whose son has Starkeys, whose husband now needs aids, and for some reason some app or another they use regards both of them as the same person if both have the same brand.

That app sounds like it needs some improvement!
I suppose the neighbors want to buy at Costco, but avoid Starkeys because of the app? That would suck if Starkey would work best for him but the app problem dissuaded him from getting that brand.

@AttilaDaPun said:

That app sounds like it needs some improvement!

For all I know, there are ways to handle it, but I’m not getting involved with that.

No, her plan is to give the Starkeys to the husband, which will cost something like $700 to have them reprogrammed and to change out the molds for the son that are on them. And then she plans to buy the son another $7,000 (original cost of Starkeys) worth of new aids. I’m going to talk to her again soon and will tell her why I think there are better ways to go, but as you know, telling people things like that is often a waste of breath.

Yep, some people just will not listen, and/or refuse to learn. It also sounds like she favors her son over her husband, at least when it comes to hearing aids!

Are these typically cheaper or just sold through different channels? Some of those in ear designs look oddly similar to Virto R.

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It’s possible that Starkey is under pressure right now. In Germany, the largest independent hearing aid retail chain is a company named KIND.

They were primarily selling rebranded Starkey . More recently KIND added Oticon to the mix and in June, Demant acquired KIND:

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In all likelyhood the KIND retail channel will shrink for Starkey, and they are under pressure to replace it with something else. Starkey is by far the smallest HA manufacturer of the ‘big 5’, so losing a major sales channel in Europe has to hurt…

@tenkan said:

any update on SoundGear AMP.

According to one source of mine (Costco employee), they have received pricing… unfortunately, I don’t know the cost… Here’s what he said to me:

So I guess it’s “official” now. The Starkey SoundGear M R, RIC 312, R, , R, Premium Charger, Remote Control, Remote Mic, Table Microphone, and TV Streamer showed up in the price list. Marked for “test locations”. There’s also a recharge Jabra MAX SP . We’ll see.

@TAS said:

They are supposed to be the same as the Resound Enzo IA

They will be exactly the same as ReSound models, Jabra are just rebranded ReSound.

I’m hope I’m responding in the right thread. Long time stalker and new member. I don’t come on often because I’m blind. My Costco in Houston says that Starsky’s will be in San Antonio first.

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I live in Spring Texas. It is north of Houston. I lost my vision to glaucoma.

I use the KS nines with the TV adapter so I can watch TV. I also have the Rexton reach which I got a year ago and happy with them.

Wall in Costco about 10 days ago my hearing specialist told me that Costco would be testing out the star seas. She said that Houston would not be getting them. They were towed at San Antonio would receive them. She doesn’t know the details about when or how much the ace will cost. She asked me to check the hearing aid form since she knows that I was lurking around here.

Correction: while, not Wall. Please excuse my spellings. Siri doesn’t always take my dictation correctly.

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