As soon as we got preggo (and actually before), I have been searching long and hard for a car seat! This, I felt, was our most important purchase ... and I didn't just want to get the first one I could find that I liked!
Within the past month, I decided that Chicco was our brand, and the Cortina/Key Fit was what I would like to have! I then began to search just this car seat for the best price around!
Last Wednesday, I found it at Babies R'Us for 15% off and Free Shipping! When you are looking at hundreds of dollars, 15% off really adds up! And who wants to pay shipping on something that weighs 45 lbs! I told Bryan that I had never seen this travel system that cheap, so we decided to make our first big purchase and order it! We were soooo excited!!
After they shipped our travel system, I checked the tracking number to see when it should be here! Tuesday (8/11) was the big day! So on Tuesday Morning, I checked and sure enough it was on schedule and out for delivery in San Angelo! I kept waiting for the call from Bryan saying that it had come in ... but that never came! I was home by 5PM and thought it was weird that we had not received it! I check the tracking to see if there was an update! At the top, where it had said "In Transit" all day ... now said "Exception"! In the comment area, it said that "UPS needs the correct street address. UPS is trying to obtain this information from the customer."
I didn't know if I was supposed to call them ... or if they would contact me! So finally around 6:30PM, we decided to call UPS (which is a 800 number)! I explained the situation, and so he read the address that they had for us ... and of course, it was exactly correct! So he took my name and number, and they were going to locate the local UPS ... then the local guys would call me! Shortly afterwards, they did! He said that the girl running that route did not know this area very well, and couldn't find our house! !?!?!? So I guess, instead of called someone and asking for directions ... she just decided to go back to the warehouse! He told us we should expect our carseat tomorrow (wed).
Wednesday was another normal day! I went to work, got logged on, and started the day! Later, I checked my email ... and I received one that made things a little complicated! It was from diapers.com ... Enter for a $1500 sweepstakes! Well, why not ... we could use that! hehe After I entered, I went to their website to see what all they had! They have all kinds of baby stuff ... including carseats ... Chicco carseats! Of course, I had to go check out the price! You can imagine my shock, when I found our exact travel system (different color) for $30 cheaper! And I thought I really did my research! But how was I to know to look on DIAPERS.COM!!! They had the system 14% off, with FREE Shipping, No Tax ... and then an additional 10% off! I called Bryan ... and when I said, that I wanted to send back the travel system from Babies R'Us (yes, the one we had not even received yet) ... I think he thought my crazy preggo hormones were talking!
Talking to Babies R'Us was the first thing we had to do ... if we had to pay to ship it back (which would cost at least $20), it would not be worth the trouble! So I called babies r'us and told them that I had found another system that we liked better (that was all I said), and that we needed to return the one we ordered from them! The guy said "ok, I will send you a UPS return label to your email! Print it out, put it on the box and take it to a local UPS store!" YES! Exactly what we had hoped to hear! We would not have to pay a cent to ship it back!
After we heard that great news ... AND since the extra 10% off sale was only for Wednesday and Thursday ... we decided to go ahead and buy the carseat travel system from diapers.com!
And Finally Last night around 8PM, we received the first travel system!
Within the past month, I decided that Chicco was our brand, and the Cortina/Key Fit was what I would like to have! I then began to search just this car seat for the best price around!
Last Wednesday, I found it at Babies R'Us for 15% off and Free Shipping! When you are looking at hundreds of dollars, 15% off really adds up! And who wants to pay shipping on something that weighs 45 lbs! I told Bryan that I had never seen this travel system that cheap, so we decided to make our first big purchase and order it! We were soooo excited!!
After they shipped our travel system, I checked the tracking number to see when it should be here! Tuesday (8/11) was the big day! So on Tuesday Morning, I checked and sure enough it was on schedule and out for delivery in San Angelo! I kept waiting for the call from Bryan saying that it had come in ... but that never came! I was home by 5PM and thought it was weird that we had not received it! I check the tracking to see if there was an update! At the top, where it had said "In Transit" all day ... now said "Exception"! In the comment area, it said that "UPS needs the correct street address. UPS is trying to obtain this information from the customer."
I didn't know if I was supposed to call them ... or if they would contact me! So finally around 6:30PM, we decided to call UPS (which is a 800 number)! I explained the situation, and so he read the address that they had for us ... and of course, it was exactly correct! So he took my name and number, and they were going to locate the local UPS ... then the local guys would call me! Shortly afterwards, they did! He said that the girl running that route did not know this area very well, and couldn't find our house! !?!?!? So I guess, instead of called someone and asking for directions ... she just decided to go back to the warehouse! He told us we should expect our carseat tomorrow (wed).
Wednesday was another normal day! I went to work, got logged on, and started the day! Later, I checked my email ... and I received one that made things a little complicated! It was from diapers.com ... Enter for a $1500 sweepstakes! Well, why not ... we could use that! hehe After I entered, I went to their website to see what all they had! They have all kinds of baby stuff ... including carseats ... Chicco carseats! Of course, I had to go check out the price! You can imagine my shock, when I found our exact travel system (different color) for $30 cheaper! And I thought I really did my research! But how was I to know to look on DIAPERS.COM!!! They had the system 14% off, with FREE Shipping, No Tax ... and then an additional 10% off! I called Bryan ... and when I said, that I wanted to send back the travel system from Babies R'Us (yes, the one we had not even received yet) ... I think he thought my crazy preggo hormones were talking!
Talking to Babies R'Us was the first thing we had to do ... if we had to pay to ship it back (which would cost at least $20), it would not be worth the trouble! So I called babies r'us and told them that I had found another system that we liked better (that was all I said), and that we needed to return the one we ordered from them! The guy said "ok, I will send you a UPS return label to your email! Print it out, put it on the box and take it to a local UPS store!" YES! Exactly what we had hoped to hear! We would not have to pay a cent to ship it back!
After we heard that great news ... AND since the extra 10% off sale was only for Wednesday and Thursday ... we decided to go ahead and buy the carseat travel system from diapers.com!
And Finally Last night around 8PM, we received the first travel system!
The system is choco brown, beige ... lined in orange!
Of course, we had to take it out of the box and play a little!
So Yesterday, we received a really cool travel system. Today, it is in my car, ready to go to the UPS store after work. and Tomorrow, we should receive the new travel system!!
3 comments:
That is funny!! I do like the one y'all got yesterday!! Let us see pics when the "REAL" one gets here!!
we have the same travel system and really like it. Diapers.com has some great deals running all the time. Good work researching it all.
great story!!! yay for good deals :)
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