I noticed that Toys R Us (Canada) website has the Evenflo Secure Kid 400 child/booster for sale ($199). I was looking around for reviews and saw a few for the US version but was wondering if anyone has the Canadian version and has thoughts/opinions on it or could compare it with other seats in its class (Nauti, Frontier, etc).
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Question Secure Kid 400 child/booster reviews (Canada)?
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Keeanh
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Oh wow! Awesome! I was thinking it would take forever for this seat to make it to Canada. That description is absolutely terrible. I really hope the Canadian version goes to 65lbs harnessed! Any US reviews about the seat in general would be applicable to the Canadian version too, it's just the weight limits that we'd have to double-check.
tam_shops
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NICE!!! But, $199, REALLY?
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Evenflo-Securekid-Crawford-Seat-Booster/dp/B006PB2EDE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328475033&sr=8-1"]vs the American $137.[/ame]. [ame="http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12535597"]Oh, even better, $127 American.[/ame]
For a back-up seat, I'd buy that in a heartbeat for $127 Canadian! LOL
tam
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Evenflo-Securekid-Crawford-Seat-Booster/dp/B006PB2EDE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328475033&sr=8-1"]vs the American $137.[/ame]. [ame="http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12535597"]Oh, even better, $127 American.[/ame]
For a back-up seat, I'd buy that in a heartbeat for $127 Canadian! LOL
tam
tam_shops
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canadiangie
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tam_shops
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Cheaper to buy a Maestro and then a Graco HBB than the Secure kid, especially if you have a skinny kid and by the time *most* people would be buying that seat, they'd know if they had a skinny kid, or not.
Though, if it makes a better (and smaller) booster than the GN, it may be a great deal, especially since it has latch for booster mode...
I think the light factor, which is why I love it for a spare seat, will still get some people to buy the GN over the Securekid...
tam
Though, if it makes a better (and smaller) booster than the GN, it may be a great deal, especially since it has latch for booster mode...
I think the light factor, which is why I love it for a spare seat, will still get some people to buy the GN over the Securekid...
tam
snowbird25ca
Moderator - CPST Instructor
I expect that it will have a 65lb weight limit on the seat if that's what it's rated to in the US. Evenflo has most of their seats at 65lbs ff'ing now with the exception of the Maestro, the Chase, and the Titan. (No kid would ever fit in the Titan at that weight anyways.)
At 18" top harness height and nice cup holders - and a whole $70 cheaper than the Nautilus, I can see it selling well - especially if it makes a decent high back booster. Backless boosters are only $20, so it still comes out costing less than the Nautilus. Plus at a $199 price tag it will go on sale for probably $30 off on a semi-regular basis I would expect.
At 18" top harness height and nice cup holders - and a whole $70 cheaper than the Nautilus, I can see it selling well - especially if it makes a decent high back booster. Backless boosters are only $20, so it still comes out costing less than the Nautilus. Plus at a $199 price tag it will go on sale for probably $30 off on a semi-regular basis I would expect.
tam_shops
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Great to know! I could live w/ $140, but $170 is pushing it for me w/ the logic being that a HBB goes on sale for $50, so why spend more than that on the booster portion of the seat--given I know my guys would never make it to 65# w/ 18" harness...
Never did get us a spare seat, so all we have is a LBB for friend's kids that are fine with it. And, if there were a we had to go to emergency (hospital) kind of thing I'd be fine with really *either* of my boys sitting in it in a taxi, if need be...better than the nothing the law requires! :thumbsdown:
tam
Never did get us a spare seat, so all we have is a LBB for friend's kids that are fine with it. And, if there were a we had to go to emergency (hospital) kind of thing I'd be fine with really *either* of my boys sitting in it in a taxi, if need be...better than the nothing the law requires! :thumbsdown:
tam
The TRU description IS awful! It makes it sound like you can use the seat to booster at 22lbs...do people actually read what they write before they publish it?
Keeanh
Well-known member
Thanks Trudy! Yes, I expect it will harness to 65lbs too, but since Evenflo can't make their RF weights the same in Canada vs US, I didn't want to make assumptions.
Yeah. Or harness to 100lbs
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Yeah. Or harness to 100lbs
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snowbird25ca
Moderator - CPST Instructor
Thanks Trudy! Yes, I expect it will harness to 65lbs too, but since Evenflo can't make their RF weights the same in Canada vs US, I didn't want to make assumptions.
Yeah. Or harness to 100lbs
It's probably a copy and paste of whatever Evenflo sent them. Sent them feedback through the website about the description and it'll probably get updated. I know BRU has been responsive about their website in the past.
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