sb518
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So I was at BRU just roaming the car seat area, playing with a chicco keyfit, well this young guy comes up to me and says "You really should buy a 3-in-1 seat, they are cheaper and go to 100pounds" Well right away I was irritated because he was acting REALLY arrogant like he knew everything there was to know.
Well honey, you picked the WRONG person to talk carseats with! Him and his wife were looking at the apex for their 9 month old daughter because they wanted to turn her forward facing. So I said "Actually I've heard that this seat fits babies as small as 4 pounds really well, and it goes up to 30lbs" he fires back "Well they say to move your baby forward facing at 20 pounds so that's 10 pounds of size you're wasting"
"Actually 20 pounds and 1 year is the MINIMUM accepted weight, it's not RECOMMENDED" so then he said "Just trying to help.." in this rude voice and went over and started talking crap to his wife about me. So then SHE comes over to me and says "THese carseats right here" and points to the AO's "go from 5 pounds to 100 lbs". I said "Well those seats expire in 6 years so by the time your child even reaches 100 pounds it won't be acceptable. Also those seats only harness up to 40 pounds and the britax marathons harness up to 65 and rear-face to 33" They were getting really pissy with me and it was ticking me off, some un-educated parent trying to tell ME how to buy a carseat!?
At that point they had really gotten to me and were making me sick putting their 9 month old baby in booster seats. I told them my kids would be rearfacing and harnessed as long as possible, and 40 pounds is NOT big enough. He pointed to the booster they were looking at and said that it recommended using the seat as a booster at 30pounds. I said "At 30 pounds a child is NOT ready for an adult belt, even with a booster, unless of course you want to get in an accident and want to cause abdomen injurys to your child resulting in internal bleeding and death, but that's not a chance I'm willing to take and I think my child's life is worth more than any car seat price in this store" and I walked away!
I'm still so mad! I can't imagine if it were some clueless new parents looking for a seat instead of me and that IDIOT told them what he told me!
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I wanted to say I was a tech just so he would shut up but I'm not yet... so I didn't.
Then he tracks me down in the store and says "Well the seat we're getting harnesses to 65lbs and it's still cheaper than the infant one you were looking at, and you can use it as a boosteR" I said "You can only use that as a booster if you have headrests in your backseat so hopefully you do." and he tried to say something else but I was out the door. Dork! Sorry just had to vent to the only people who would understand!
Well honey, you picked the WRONG person to talk carseats with! Him and his wife were looking at the apex for their 9 month old daughter because they wanted to turn her forward facing. So I said "Actually I've heard that this seat fits babies as small as 4 pounds really well, and it goes up to 30lbs" he fires back "Well they say to move your baby forward facing at 20 pounds so that's 10 pounds of size you're wasting"
"Actually 20 pounds and 1 year is the MINIMUM accepted weight, it's not RECOMMENDED" so then he said "Just trying to help.." in this rude voice and went over and started talking crap to his wife about me. So then SHE comes over to me and says "THese carseats right here" and points to the AO's "go from 5 pounds to 100 lbs". I said "Well those seats expire in 6 years so by the time your child even reaches 100 pounds it won't be acceptable. Also those seats only harness up to 40 pounds and the britax marathons harness up to 65 and rear-face to 33" They were getting really pissy with me and it was ticking me off, some un-educated parent trying to tell ME how to buy a carseat!? At that point they had really gotten to me and were making me sick putting their 9 month old baby in booster seats. I told them my kids would be rearfacing and harnessed as long as possible, and 40 pounds is NOT big enough. He pointed to the booster they were looking at and said that it recommended using the seat as a booster at 30pounds. I said "At 30 pounds a child is NOT ready for an adult belt, even with a booster, unless of course you want to get in an accident and want to cause abdomen injurys to your child resulting in internal bleeding and death, but that's not a chance I'm willing to take and I think my child's life is worth more than any car seat price in this store"
and I walked away! I'm still so mad!
I can't imagine if it were some clueless new parents looking for a seat instead of me and that IDIOT told them what he told me! :thumbsdown:
:thumbsdown:
I wanted to say I was a tech just so he would shut up but I'm not yet... so I didn't.
Then he tracks me down in the store and says "Well the seat we're getting harnesses to 65lbs and it's still cheaper than the infant one you were looking at, and you can use it as a boosteR" I said "You can only use that as a booster if you have headrests in your backseat so hopefully you do." and he tried to say something else but I was out the door. Dork! Sorry just had to vent to the only people who would understand!
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