Yard Sale Rescue

Brigala

CPST Instructor

• May 12, 2012

• #1

She had a $2 price tag on it but she was happy to let me just take it off her hands for recycling. She said she didn't know whether it was safe or not and when I told her it wasn't she was fine with that.

As a bonus I got a bunch of nice flannel fabric for $1 a yard at the sale too. I would have bought more but I only had $10 with me.

Car seat is a Century, obviously no harness, stickers mostly missing or illegible, stamped on the back with "Do Not Use After December 2005."

 

MomToEliEm

Moderator

• May 12, 2012

• #2

Glad you were able to rescue it before someone else tried to get it and use it.

 

Judi

CPST/Firefighter

• May 12, 2012

• #3

Wow, 2005!

 

Kac

Ambassador - CPS Technician

• May 12, 2012

• #4

Yuck!

 

TyAndCheyMommy

New member

• May 12, 2012

• #5

I found one at a yard sale a few weeks ago that the woman wouldn't listen to me- and said if I wanted to buy it then it would be the $20 she was asking for it.

Thankfully it was nasty enough and stuff that I am assuming no one else would have paid $20 for it either.

 

katymyers

Active member

• May 12, 2012

• #6

TyAndCheyMommy said:

I found one at a yard sale a few weeks ago that the woman wouldn't listen to me- and said if I wanted to buy it then it would be the $20 she was asking for it.

Thankfully it was nasty enough and stuff that I am assuming no one else would have paid $20 for it either.

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Holy cow! Twenty bucks for that! Did you tell her a brand new seat can be as cheap as forty?!?! What a nut case!

 

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love-pink

Well-known member

• May 12, 2012

• #7

TyAndCheyMommy said:

I found one at a yard sale a few weeks ago that the woman wouldn't listen to me- and said if I wanted to buy it then it would be the $20 she was asking for it.

Thankfully it was nasty enough and stuff that I am assuming no one else would have paid $20 for it either.

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My sister had that same exact seat. She will be 17 in July

 

jacqui276

New member

• May 12, 2012

• #8

love-pink said:

My sister had that same exact seat. She will be 17 in July

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haha I was going to say, that looks similar to what I was in as a child and I'm 26! Haven't seen a seat like that in a long time!

 

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love-pink

Well-known member

• May 12, 2012

• #9

jacqui276 said:

haha I was going to say, that looks similar to what I was in as a child and I'm 26! Haven't seen a seat like that in a long time!

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Oh I wouldn't doubt at all it was a used seat before it was used for my sister :/

 

wendytthomas

Admin - CPST Instructor

Staff member

• May 13, 2012

• #10

Century Breverra. Someone at Piper's school was using one until last year. They used it as that one looked (though a different cover) for a year or two, then used it coverless. As if that made it better.

Wendy

 

Brigala

CPST Instructor

• May 13, 2012

• #11

That's a Breverra? It's a lot different than the one my boys used when they were toddlers. Theirs looked like this one:

 

wendytthomas

Admin - CPST Instructor

Staff member

• May 13, 2012

• #12

I can't see the picture, but pretty sure. They had different headrest variations, and some had T shields and some had little nubby things on the buckles (which of course we can't see in the one you rescued, they're long gone).

Wendy

 

Brigala

CPST Instructor

• May 13, 2012

• #13

Interesting.

 

KaysKidz

Senior Community Member

• May 13, 2012

• #14

wendytthomas said:

I can't see the picture, but pretty sure. They had different headrest variations, and some had T shields and some had little nubby things on the buckles (which of course we can't see in the one you rescued, they're long gone).

Wendy

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The one pictured in the OP is the 'newer' version, though still very expired. The one with the narrower headrest is the older style...my 21yr old had one when she was 3. One of the daycare teachers uses one on occasion with her 3yr old.

 

rebeccalynne15

New member

• May 17, 2012

• #15

See old expire car seats here all the time at yard sales , flea market , cl and thrift stores . Sometimes I feel like such a broken record telling them all car seats expire ....can't believe the amount of people that argue with me or don't care at all !

 

Brigala

CPST Instructor

• May 17, 2012

• #16

I know... a lot of people really don't get it.

This lady was easy to talk out of it, though. I started out by buying stuff I wanted. At the end I asked if she would let me take the car seat to recycle, too. She said she didn't know whether it was safe or not, so that's why she put such a low price on it - figured the buyer could/would "research" it to decide whether or not it was safe (not likely!!!). So I said I was a CPST and that it was not safe and she was thrilled to see it disappear from her yard sale. I'm really glad it was that easy. I know it won't always be.

It probably also helped that it was the last day of the yard sale and they'd already said everything was half price - so what were they losing out on? A buck?