[Electronics-talk] Tissot vibrating watch [was "Re: TalkingSports Watch"]

[Steve Deeley]

Jenny do not rely on the government or state to find equality for you. You must go out and find your own by getting a job so that you can buy nice things that look good and work great. Steve

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On Apr 23, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Jenny Keller <jlperdue3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I have too, cause I think there is no agreement here.
> 
> I don't think that its wrong to buy a nice watch if you have the money.  It's just for those of us who haven't, for most of their life, and have had to except the lowest quality and the ugliest watches and other aids that didn't work as well as the higher quality aids simply because they have issues that keep them from working, and the companies know this and so do the state agencies, that spend as little as possible and then think they are so great because they did something great for the blind should be ashamed of themselves.
> 
> As far as the companies that make watches or any other adaptable equipment or not, as seco for example.  they make enough money that they could give those of us with fixed incomes a break if it didn't come down to the all mighty dollar.
> 
> I'll no longer continue this post because we're not getting anywhere.
> 
> JMO,
> 
> Jenny
> On Apr 23, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> 
>> Well, I don't think it's a kick in the teeth. I don't think the Seico
>> braille watches are significantly more expensive than the Seico watch a
>> sighted person would buy. Ditto for the Wenger or the Tissot watches. I
>> don't think it would be right for us to get a watch that a sighted
>> person would pay $100 for for say something like $30, or whatever you
>> think a watch should cost. Maybe I haven't looked at enough watches, but
>> I don't think Seico, Wenger or Tissot put out a braille or vibrating
>> watch for the blind and then jacked up the price. I think these three
>> companies make nicer watches and that's what they cost, whether you're
>> blind or not.
>> 
>> To be honest, I'm not sure what the problem is here. Not every sighted
>> person can afford every watch out there. Why wouldn't that also be true
>> for the blind? Are you saying that since some blind people can't afford
>> a luxury watch than no one should be able to buy such a watch?
>> 
>> When I was younger, I'd get the cheapest braille watch I could find. I
>> don't know what I spent, but they never lasted me more than a few years.
>> In the last 30 years, I've had two Seico watches. I paid between $100
>> and $150 for them, so they cost me less than $10 a year, which I'm
>> pretty sure was less than I was paying when I was buying cheaper watches.
>> 
>> When I bought my wife a nice watch for a birthday or anniversary, I paid
>> as much as I have for either of my Seico's, and she isn't blind. My
>> understanding is that good watches will cost a couple of hundred dollars
>> whether you're sighted or not.
>>