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Ok, so some minor "I got that and it sucked" or "I got that and it was good" banter around baby stuff has occurred. I'm still in the "acquisition phase" and wanted to know what specific products you've bought recently for baby that were "cant live withouts" and which were "thrown out the window". Also, which retailers did you like and dislike? I tried the 'second hand' approach that a lot of people like...I could find nothing in the stores, and yard sale stuff was mostly decrepit cruddy stuff I didnt even want to touch, let alone stick my kid into.
I've already learned that "babiesrus" is a huge, huge no-no. I bought a half dozen things there, and the grandparents bought us a couple of things off of the registry we made there. About half of the stuff had apparently been returned, repackaged, and put back on the shelf as new. I discovered while trying to assemble a baby seat that it had been partially assembled, a power screwdriver had been used in the partial assembly, spinning out the screws in the plastic housings so they wouldnt hold anymore, and it smelled like baby. A baby monitor that had had its box retaped had a non-working a/c adapter. And a bassinet had all its plastic bags of parts ripped open and was missing a few key parts.
I dont mind stuff like this being put on a clearance table for half price, labeled "not working" or "missing parts"...but I'm frankly pretty disgusted that they'd just put peoples repackaged defective and used returns back on the shelf to sell as new.
Further, some stuff we bought and marked off our registry got rebought as it takes TWO DAYS for their computer systems to synchronize the registries across stores and on-line.
Fairly pathetic.
I've already learned that "babiesrus" is a huge, huge no-no. I bought a half dozen things there, and the grandparents bought us a couple of things off of the registry we made there. About half of the stuff had apparently been returned, repackaged, and put back on the shelf as new. I discovered while trying to assemble a baby seat that it had been partially assembled, a power screwdriver had been used in the partial assembly, spinning out the screws in the plastic housings so they wouldnt hold anymore, and it smelled like baby. A baby monitor that had had its box retaped had a non-working a/c adapter. And a bassinet had all its plastic bags of parts ripped open and was missing a few key parts.
I dont mind stuff like this being put on a clearance table for half price, labeled "not working" or "missing parts"...but I'm frankly pretty disgusted that they'd just put peoples repackaged defective and used returns back on the shelf to sell as new.
Further, some stuff we bought and marked off our registry got rebought as it takes TWO DAYS for their computer systems to synchronize the registries across stores and on-line.
Fairly pathetic.