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An intriguing economic fact should be added:
I got my new hearing aids in Wellington NZ a few months later - and not from the Irish father-in-law of an ISS astronaut.
Why?
Because I had to pay for them in full - in Ireland and in NZ, too.
(In Germany, I would have gotten a pair for almost no payment from out of my own pocket. But I hadn't lived in Germany since 2004 and didn't plan to live in Germany for many years to come, if ever again.)
But the price was odd:
it was the same amount in € as it was in NZ$, only the currency sign exchanged.
Something like 7.000 NZ$ I paid in Welli. And in Cork it would have been 7.000€.
The difference paid for my plane ticket, so to say.
Odd, isn't it? The very same device being sold by the manufacturer (and the audiologist) for a "random number" instead of for a distinct price/value.
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