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Advanced Audiology’s Nola Aronson is offering a special buy-one-get-one-free holiday sale on hearing aids for those who mention they heard about it through KHTS Radio.
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During her latest appearance on “The Senior Hour” on KHTS, Aronson talked about the notion that people may believe hearing aids are too expensive, and decided to make a special offer in the spirit of the holiday season.
“If you say you heard this at KHTS Radio, I am going to give you my holiday special, and that is a ‘buy one hearing aid, get one free,’” Aronson said, noting that this isn’t just off the manufacturer’s price. “You can buy one, get one free at my everyday low prices on top-of-the-line hearing airs that give you the quality of sound in a noisy environment.”
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Aronson continued that she wants people to hear better during the holiday season, and be able to enjoy their family without being held back by hearing loss.
“Don’t miss out on the conversation, don’t stop doing things that you love to do — it’s not necessary,” she said.
For those who still believe getting a hearing aid will be too expensive, Aronson stressed that Advanced Audiology offers a hearing aid for every budget, and though the prices may be a bit higher than the big box stores, they are bundled with services that the stores don’t offer.
“The reason the price is higher is because we give full service, and we make sure that it is functioning for you and your specific needs,” Aronson explained. “So we spend a lot of time (with our patients).”
For example, Aronson recently had a patient who was considering sending his hearing test results from Advanced Audiology to his insurance company so he could buy a less expensive, mail-order hearing aid directly from them.
But when he looked into the process, what he learned about the lack of personalized service surprised him.
“He told me you call, you have to fax in or email in your hearing test that you get from a person like myself, then they program hearing aids for you and they send them back through the mail with a video showing you how to put them in,” Aronson said.
When he asked what happens if they don’t work properly or sound right, the patient says he was told that there was a place in Burbank that might be able to adjust it for him if he were to get an appointment, or he can mail them back and have them re-program the hearing aids again.
“This is a medical device, and it’s not like eye glasses where you get your prescription and you put your eye glasses on,” Aronson said. “It doesn’t work like that when it comes to hearing aids… Another patient with the same problem, with the same hearing loss might react totally differently to the same exact hearing aids, but it all depends on what it sounds like once it goes in the ear.”
Aronson continued, “There’s no guarantee (a less expensive hearing aid will be) correct, that they’re comfortable, that they even have the sound quality — so don’t be fooled about price.”
Ed. Note: This article is a Community Spotlight based on a recent interview with Advanced Audiology.Advanced Audiology was founded in 2010 by Santa Clarita audiologist Nola Aronson, who has been fitting hearing aids for more than 30 years. Advanced Audiology is the largest diagnostic hearing center in the Santa Clarita Valley, focusing on clients with hearing loss, tinnitus, ears ringing and more. Hearing tests, hearing aids and new sound infrared devices are also available at Advanced Audiology in addition to a complete hearing healthcare program that includes free batteries, quarterly cleanings and adjustments.
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This is the 2nd biggest scam in the hearing industry, slightly behind the one that states they are looking for X number of people for a medical trial to test “new technology”, after which you can purchase the hearing aids at a discounted price (high pressure sales scam). With the average price of a hearing aid being $2500 from an audiologist, this offer begs that 2 questions are answered:
1) Are your prices the rest of the year so elevated that you can cover for the thousands of dollars of potential revenue loss?
2) Or are you marking up the product so high that you still make a profit even with such a Buy one get one free offer?
That fact that she can offer such a deal makes me very suspicious and would make me shop other places. This is the reason why selling hearing aids at Box Stores like Costco, Sams, and Walmart are on an exponential growth curve, and private practice audiologist shrink. For years they were the only game in town and could charge what they wanted. Over the last few years, that has changed drastically and all that is left for them to do is use scare tactics to try to deter you from shopping around. Do your own research.