While wandering around the expo before the Flying Pig marathon in Cincinnati, I saw two young women violently shaking their head with headphones in their ears. These were not wrap around, or over the top headphones, they looked like typical ear bud headphones but they were not falling from the ears of the head banging duo. This got my attention, so I made my way to the Exceed Headphone booth.
"Want to try out a pair?" asked the man who seemed to be in charge.
"Sure why not." I told him.
"Let me have a look at your ear to see your size" he said. I was momentarily taken aback by this but I turned my head anyway. "You have a larger ear." he told me.
"Uh thanks," I replied.
After putting the "large" fitting on the headphones he stuck them in my ear and told me to jump around and see if I could shake them loose. Low and behold! I could not shake the things from my ears. I was impressed enough to consider purchasing a pair. When I saw that they had a model that gave me control over the volume and manipulation of tracks I was drawn in further.
"Do these work with Android phones?" I asked.
"Who is your provider?" he asked in return.
"Verizon"
"Our headphones work with all Verizon phones." he answered me confidently. I was sold. After shelling out the $35 for my new headphones, I couldn't wait to try them during the marathon.
The next morning I eagerly put on my new headphones. A small voice whispered that I should probably put my old ones in my pocket just in case. I don't know why my wife was whispering, there was nobody in the room with us.
After only a mile into the race the head phones kept popping out of my left ear. I would jam it in harder and it would fall out again. The right side stayed put, but the left kept falling out. Frustrated I let it dangle inside my jacket. The volume control worked perfectly but I soon discovered that the "next track" option did not work with my Android phone. Later, after the race I would discover that none of the extra functions worked with my phone regardless of what music playing app I was using.
Around mile 5 the headphones quit working completely. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say it may have been caused by the rain. I swapped my $35 dollar headphones with my $9.99 Sony headphones. Although I lost the ability to control the volume of my music, both headphones stayed in place and worked perfectly in the rain.
I will never again be swayed by head-banging girls. Okay, that may not be true. But I will never be convinced to spend more than $10 for a pair of headphones.
I purchased a pair of these at the running expo before the Gasparilla Half Marathon in Tampa. They stayed in during the entire race. If you still have them, try to use a different size in that ear. That may be all you need.
ReplyDeleteI will tell you the experience I had with Auria. I worked for the owner of Auria & he is cheap. He paid me with headphones. I was surprised he was the owner because he is not people friendly. I would pull customers to his booth & he would ignore them. How can you treat people this way??? I made him a lot of money & no commission for any sales I made for him & then he didn't want to give me any money for the hours I worked.
DeleteThere were customers who wanted their money back & he would ignore their emails & ignore them. The headphones are not that great. The chord is too long. His name is Dave. I would never work for him again and beware!