Information overload

I went to see two hearing aid vendors.  first one was an independent audiologist that a friends mother had used.  He showed me a few different brands but kept taking me back to the Sonic ION @ $2400 EACH.   Ouch.   Not a hard sell but kept steering me back to that particular one and offered 4 yrs of service and batteries.   Didn't offer to let me try them out.
Then, I went to Costco.  Costco has licensed HA dispensers.  Not Drs of Aud.  Didn't even know they existed.  He programmed a set of HA for me and let me walk around the warehouse to try them out.   They worked well.  I could hear the ladies handing out samples of food.  I went back to the guy and we talked for an hour about the HA business, different technologies and what Costco offers.   The Kirkland (Costco) brand is actually a Rexton premium HA which is a division of Siemens.  He showed me that the device and software is the same without the marketing of the Siemens name.   He showed me a chart that compared all the brands and the Costco HA had the same features that the Sonic did.  For half the price.   A feature I really liked about the Costco brand was that it was rechargeable.  No batteries to replace every week.   My hearing is not so bad that I need a super powerful device.
The Costco device worked well in my walk around and I have 90 days to try it out and bring it back if it is not the one.   Plus, I can go to any Costco if I have problems.
I am seeing my ENT next week to go over all my tests and "talk about amplification".   I would have like to talk about that two visits ago but that is another story.  He hits me up for $30 each time I walk in the door.   The doc has an audi attached to his practice and I remember seeing the Sonic brochures in the waiting room.   I expect that the doc will give me the hard sell to use his audi but I am seriously leaning toward going for the Costco HA.