[blparent] FW: Question for blind parents

Shelby Young blindatbirth at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 16 04:24:31 UTC 2012 

I know the store Jo Elizabeth is talking about. I'm going to agree its over priced. A resource page would be great.
Shelby


On Nov 15, 2012, at 10:13 PM, "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:

> There's a store here in the Denver area called Beyond Sight that sells items for the visually impaired.  It too is overpriced, and the guy who owns the place is the worst high pressure salesman you ever met.  Especially women, you can hardly get out the door because he just won't let up.  So I think a resource page might be a better idea.
> 
> Jo Elizabeth
> 
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
> -----Original Message----- From: Veronica Smith
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:05 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: Question for blind parents
> 
> There is a place here in Albuquerque that originally started out as a store
> for the hearing impaired, but over the last few years expanded and began
> selling blindness items.  The good thing about it, is is local and easy to
> access.  The bad thing about it, it is over priced.
> Also some of the things they get, they order from the same places I order
> from and then they charge me the shipping cost which if I had ordered it
> myself, I would have been charged the same thing but the item would have
> been mailed directly to me.
> Sometimes I think it is easier just to leave out the middle man.
> I really wanted them to stay in business, but not at my expense of paying
> higher prices.
> Also they used to have 2 blind individuals on their board, but both have
> resigned due to the sighted owners think that our ideas are less than
> perfect.
> What I mean by that statement, these 2 blind peeps suggest itesm they should
> have in their store and well, frankly they just don't order them.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:20 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: Question for blind parents
> 
> I tend to agree with Lisamaria.  Stores that sell products specific to blind
> people, or even mainstream products that are blind friendly, tend to charge
> higher prices than most other retail outlets.  That being the case, I would
> probably check out products at the blind friendly store, then search for
> better prices elsewhere, in which case a resource page would do just as
> well.
> 
> Jo Elizabeth
> 
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:50 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: Question for blind parents
> 
> I don't know about a store specifically geared toward blind parents but
> maybe a resource page or a wicky page with links to buy thoset products.
> Usually you can get bargain deals if you shop around online so I wouldn't
> want to be stuck with one place to buy everything just because it happens to
> be particularly accessible to blind parents. I have heard that a resource
> page exists somewhere  but I have yet to find one jeered toward us.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:30 PM, "mary jo hartle" <mjhartle23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>           Hi all,
>> 
>>           This is a question for my own curiosity that kind of came
>> out of a recent parent's meeting we had at our state convention for
>> the NFB.  As blind parents, there are a lot of tools and resources we
>> use.  WE buy certain products (i.e., strollers we can pull behind us
>> and use with our canes, baby carrying packs, bells or noise makers for
>> our kids shoes, notched syringes for feeding our babies or
>> administering medicine, accessible baby monitors, etc.) that help us
>> to be more effective parents.
>> Most of these are mainstream products which some of us have found to
>> be more "blind friendly".  Sometimes though we hear about something we
>> want to use and have to hunt it down or get it from a specific place.
>> For example, twin vision books, or car seats that have built in wheels
>> which allow it to
>> become a stroller.   So, I was thinking about resources I've used and time
>> I've spent finding the right thing and had an idea.  Usually, we ask
>> each other for recommendations and then go hunt down the product.
>> But, what if there was a kind of online store or one-stop shop for all
>> things for blind parents?  I wanted to get some of your opinions as
>> blind parents as to whether or not you would find such a shop useful.
>> Would you appreciate having a place where everything was designed for
>> blind parents, or a place where "best-practice" mainstream products
>> which have proven to be "blind friendly" could be found all in one
>> place?  Or does such a place already exist and I've just not heard of
>> it?  If such a place existed and its prices were comparable to other
>> places, would you use it?  Why or why not?  What kinds of products
>> would you like to see in such a place?  Also, most of the examples I
>> gave were relevant to parents of young children, so what needs do you
>> who are parents of older children find you have?
>> 
>> I'd really like to hear your feedback on this idea-both good and bad.
>> Who knows?  Maybe something will come of it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Mary Jo Hartle
>> 
>> 
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