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Has Anyone Purchased Walmart's Simplicity Aids

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Has anyone purchased Walmart’s Simplicity brand hearing aids for only $949 a pair. What was your experience? Did you have an examination? By whom? Buy on line? Is the purchase legal in all States? On line info very skimpy. Apparently it is a with 4 fixed gain levels and a fixed HF emphasis curve.

Does Walmart have audiologists or dispensers in their stores?

Just seems odd. Ed

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I can find some replacement parts but no aids in my search.

About 6 months ago one of the Audi’s was posting about a cheap aid generically programed for HF loss. Id like to trial a pair, 80% off sounds good to me.

Well just a few things. You don’t have your test results posted so there is no way to tell if the aids are right or powerful enough. Other then that from what I can see the aids are preprogrammed one size fits all. There is no guarantee, that the way the aids are programmed, that they will help with your particular loss. I don’t see anything regarding dispensers or audiologists so I’m pretty sure the aids are sold over the counter, as is. Good luck. You’ll either save a lot of money or waste a lot of money. But you probably won’t get the best aids you could possibly get for your particular loss.

Hask ole Buddy: Not for me…Just posting info for the mild loss group…I’m profound. And just curious, particularly about the legallity. Ed;)

I bought Simplicity aids from Sam’s club for 749.00 per pair. They are made by General Hearing in New Orleans. They weren’t powerful enough for my loss so I took them back. Maybe they would have worked if I didn’t have such a big loss at 1Khz.:confused:

Don

Regarding legality, they webpage does state “This is to inform you that the Food and Drug Administration has determined that it is in your best health interest to obtain a medical evaluation by a licensed physician, who specializes in diseases of the ear; then to be tested by an audiologist, or hearing aid dispenser utilizing established procedures and instrumentation in the fitting of hearing instruments.”

They then go on to say “Note: Ordering a hearing instrument from this web site constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of this “Waiver to Medical Evaluation Requirements”.” Now typically one can obtain a waiver from any dispenser, but it is generally a form to fill out and actually sign, as opposed to purchase constituting a waiver. I would hope most individuals purchasing hearing aids would read all the information on the page, but this is down at the bottom so I could see it being overlooked.

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