Ugh...the information card under the Symphony at our store says you can use it FF from 19 inches...whoever writes those things has never seen a kid or a carseat or something
Anyway, I've finally convinced the people I work with not to sell the Safety 1sts because of the horrid belt fit as a booster, so we sell a lot of Symphonies. People are he11 bent on not having to buy more seats, after they get gypped out of all their money on an infant seat that barely lasted, they don't understand how long a convertible will last and just want to be done with the whole buying thing.
My little speech includes pointing out how the weight limits on the boxes are just marketing ploys, really any of our seats can fit MOST kids till about kindergarten, then you can go buy a 'big kid booster!' that's not full of ground-in cheerios
I also have to tell people that just because the Nautilus screams that it's a 3-in-1, doesn't mean it rearfaces... even if people are going to FF too young, the Symphony is a better choice because of the recline, but we sure get a lot of these things returned when people find out they can't RF....apparently being in the *BOOSTER* section away from the convertibles isn't any kind of hint to people about how it should be used
