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Free Hearing Tests?

  • 16-05-2019 01:16PM
    #1
    kevinsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    I've noticed a number of places around do free hearing tests.
    Just wondering what is the catch?

    Do they then try to get you to buy hearing aids etc?

    Anyway tried these free hearing tests?


Comments

  • #2
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,055 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    What?


  • #3
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    Last time I got an eye test in Specsavers they gave me a free hearing test.

    Think you can get a eye test every 2 years as a paye worker?


  • #4
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,560 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    A quick look at Specsavers price list gives their cheapest hearing aid at seven hundred yoyo's.

    There's your answer.


  • #5
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I got a free hearing test.


    Never heard back from them.


  • #6
    RMAOK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,349 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    Speak up OP - I can't hear you.

    Great first post - only 7 years after registering..


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  • #7
    Santan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭Santan


    You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, any way how much are these free hearing aids.

    Two questions, how much, and give it to me!!


  • #8
    friendlyfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭friendlyfun


    That's the first I've heard of it


  • #9
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    The free hearing test is just an app on a tablet with some ear phones. You can do it yourself at home.

    If you have a concern about your hearing or ear related issues book an appointment with a proper audiologist.


  • #10
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,738 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    "Can everyone hear me?"
    One of my favorite questions.


  • #11
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,345 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Come again?


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  • #12
    kinney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭kinney


    Is a test is simple. If you can't hear someone whispering, so you probably have tinnitus.



  • #13
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,477 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119503945#Comment_119503945

    Thank F$€# you don't work as an audiologist.



  • #14
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I can hear the colour 4 .



  • #15
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,560 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Forty or fifty quid on Amazon. Somebody has to pay for all of those tests I guess.



  • #16
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,943 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    There is not much that is "free" in this world, there's usually a catch and in the case of hearing aids, the "free" test usually turns into a recommendation that several thousand euro be spent on hearing aids.

    As the state funds part of the cost for those who meet the PRSI criteria, there is effectively a grant for purchasing hearing aids which distorts the market as grants usually do

    Hearing aids are far too expensive and while they can help people, often they don't help as much as people expect. It's a dirty, gouging industry that takes advantage of people desperate to hear better.



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