Baby Bargains: Secrets to Saving 20% to 50% on baby furniture, gear, clothes, strollers, maternity wear and much, much more! Author: Visit Amazon's Denise Fields Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1889392448 | Format: PDF
Baby Bargains: Secrets to Saving 20% to 50% on baby furniture, gear, clothes, strollers, maternity wear and much, much more! Description
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"The bible for new parents," New York Times.
From the Back Cover
Wow! A baby book that actually answers the big question about having a baby: How am I going to afford all this?
With the average cost of a baby topping $7000 for just the first year alone, you need creative solutions and innovative ideas to navigate the consumer maze that confronts all parents-to-be. Baby Bargains is the answer!
Inside, you'll discover:
- The best WEB SITES that offer the biggest discounts!
- NAME BRAND REVIEWS of car seats, bedding, strollers,high chairs, diapers and more!
- FIVE wastes of money with baby clothes and the best outlet bargains.
- NINE tips to saving money on cribs, plus in-depth reviews of crib brands.
- THE TRUTH ABOUT STROLLERS—and which brands work best in the real world.
- The SEVEN MOST RIDICULOUS BABY PRODUCTS.
- Dozens of safety tips to affordably baby proof your home.
- DETAILED CHARTS that compare brands of cribs, strollers, car seats and more!
About the authors
Authors Denise and Alan Fields are consumer advocates who've been featured on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America and Dateline NBC. Their books include the best-selling paperbacks Bridal Bargains, Baby 411 and Toddler 411. Learn more about their books at BabyBargains.com. The Fields live in Boulder, CO with their sons, Ben and Jackson.
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- Series: Baby Bargains
- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Windsor Peak Press; Tenth Edition, Revised edition (April 18, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1889392448
- ISBN-13: 978-1889392448
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
VERY DISAPPOINTED. I would not have bought the kindle version if I had known all the pictures and charts were missing from it. I have a previous print version and these were invaluable to me at times. Can't believe this is even allowed. The publishers of the ebook say on the front page that you can access the website for 30 days free to get the missing pics/charts (btw, year membership to website is over twice the price of the book), but seriously, who wants to do the tedious task of downloading (and then later matching up with the book) every-time I want to see a pic later on.
They should not be allowed to sell this without VERY PROMINENTLY displaying that all of this will be missing (not at the bottom of the description page where you have to expand the description to even see this!) I have a previous print version and the reason I bought this was to make sure I have the latest updated information. Now I feel like I got a bait-and-switch.
Worst e-book experience I have ever had. Shame since the print version is so good. I would have bought the print version if I had known this. For a book that is suppose to save me money and time it has done the opposite - wasted my money and my time.
UPDATE: I have tried to use the kindle/30 day free website and it's just too big of a pain. Kindle I can carry anywhere and have in an instant - website I have to be connected to at home. So I can't look things up on a whim when it occurs to me or I see it in a store (which is the norm). I don't even have the pics to take with me to go put things on my baby registry, which would be way easier than hunting down names of stuff. "Look! Here's a pic, which one of these items look like it - check name - add to baby registry." Nope.
I think this book is quite useful, but I recommend it with a few caveats:
1. This book is definitely aimed at middle class and upper middle class parents, singing the praises of mainly high end brands. In a previous edition I owned, this did not seem to be quite as much the case. Sure, they attack the Bugaboo stroller for being overpriced, but they highly recommend the only slightly cheaper Uppababy Vista. The authors do state at the beginning of the book that they want you to get good value for your money and so they don't just recommend the cheapest items. I understand that and I happen agree with that, but they don't seem to weigh cost as a terribly important factor in their ratings for individual products, which is odd for a book named "Baby Bargains." At the end of the of the book they provide an overall comparison budget to show you how much you save by going with their recommendations - but those savings are not for the products they rave about throughout the book, that's only if you go for their "good" choices, vs. "better" or "best." This book is really about shopping smarter, not necessarily about spending less. (They did tell me not to buy a diaper stacker - no problem, I won't.)
2. There are many other minor issues with reviews besides price, mainly due to inconsistent updating. For one example, in their picks for audio baby monitors, they state, "Here are our picks for audio baby monitors, with one BIG caveat: how well a monitor will work in your home depends on interference sources" - and then they go on to say that they will only recommend newer DECT monitors which don't cause interference. This seems like a small thing, but it goes on throughout the book and this sloppy updating really got on my nerves after a while.
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