I was sitting around watching that wonderful game show,
“Family Feud,” with Kenny the other day and a commercial came on that caught my
eye. It was for a hearing aid apparatus that’s supposively so much better than
an actual hearing aid, because everyone around you can’t see it. There was one
problem with this commercial and that problem was the reason I only found one
problem: It wasn’t captioned. I had no idea what they were saying, so I
couldn’t point out the many other problems that I’m sure were there.
Now, how is a person who is struggling to hear supposed to
appreciate a commercial that swears to help them hear better if they have no
idea whatsoever what they’re talking about? This annoyed me to no end, so I
went online to the website they provided to find the Customer Service email
address. Wouldn’t you know? No email. Call only. Again, I ask you, how’s a
person supposed to ask a question by phone if they need their apparatus to
begin with? Am I the only one who sees the irony in this?
And this isn’t the first time I’ve seen (SEEN) a commercial
about hearing “help” that wasn’t captioned and didn’t provide anything but a
website and phone number. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
I won’t even go down that road that the “apparatus” was
stupid anyway. Seriously, if a person needs a hearing aid, and there’s some
little doohickey that swears it can do the same thing (AND conceal it) for
$29.95, who’s going to spend $200 on a hearing aid? Silly, if you ask me.
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