I have been looking to replace a car seat lately and checked out NBD based on all the discussion on this site. I keep seeing seats with condition listed as "box opened, resealed". Why do we trust these seats? How do we know the seat was not dropped or treated badly by someone? It seems that if we don't trust gate checked seats (even if they look perfect), why should we trust NBD seats?
I feel like maybe car-seat.org is making me paranoid - the whole gate checking thing was very surprising to me. The seat I was looking to replace is actually one that I had gate checked, and honestly it looks perfect. Do you think all this thinking is overkill with maybe a touch of OCD? I feel like this site might naturally appeal to OCDers and worry warts...? (I don't mean this in a bad way, just trying to figure out when I am being cautious versus overly paranoid)
I feel like maybe car-seat.org is making me paranoid - the whole gate checking thing was very surprising to me. The seat I was looking to replace is actually one that I had gate checked, and honestly it looks perfect. Do you think all this thinking is overkill with maybe a touch of OCD? I feel like this site might naturally appeal to OCDers and worry warts...? (I don't mean this in a bad way, just trying to figure out when I am being cautious versus overly paranoid)