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Happened to us a few months ago. We got a pair of baby bath kits we didn't ask for. We looked afterward, and saw the ads mixed into our list with no way to remo

Happened to us a few months ago. We got a pair of baby bath kits we didn't ask for. We looked afterward, and saw the ads mixed into our list with no way to remove them. Incredibly slimy practice.

hbosch 8y ago
Same with my wife and I. We have already been hemming and hawing with our parents about buying high quality products as a general rule – nothing against Fisher Price or Greco, but we have just decided on nicer things – and in this spirit have intentionally selected a diaper subscription service rather than buying certain other brands via Walmart/Target/Amazon/etc. (In fact, we originally rejected the idea of a baby shower or registry so that we could just buy everything ourselves). Anyways, we were surprised to see packages of Huggies showing up on our doorstep. Not only did we never add Huggies to the registry, we never added any diapers period. When we checked the registry again, we saw some Huggies ads spliced in discretely and almost imperceptibly. It speaks to our modern day lives that we simply said "wow, they put an ad in our registry... guess that's what Amazon does now" and just kicked off the return process. We've probably wound up with >$100 in Amazon credits based on returned Huggies at this point.
- coleifer 8y ago
  But everyone makes fun of the püpli kids! https://youtu.be/krwyCx-ko_s https://youtu.be/krwyCx-ko_s
- arkades 8y ago
  What diaper service did you end up choosing?
  - hbosch 8y ago
    My wife chose to get monthly bundles from Honest (www.honest.com).
    - joering2 8y ago
      That's was initially my choice, but wife told me "a woman with STD will not be putting a diaper on my kid's ass". Then I looked up she was referring to Jessica Alba (the owner) The net is full of terrible reviews but the whole company marketing scheme was based on pure fear mongering. They tried to argue that other diapers are dangerous for your baby. Then when that unsubstantiated fake news got popular, Honest deleted off the website related to it and redirected everyone to their home page. Slimy. Great reading you can start here: https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/06/honest-diapers-are-all-the-rage-these-days-but-are-they-really-any-better-than-huggies.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/06/honest-diapers-are-...
      - trolololooo 8y ago
        What exactly does STD status have to do with any of the rest of this?
        joering2 8y ago
        Its a branding thing. Would you buy a childcare services from Jeffrey Epstein? Or give your investment money to Elizabeth Holmes?
      - ALittleLight 8y ago
        How much is the subscription fee to get Jessica Alba to put a diaper on your child?
      - hbosch 8y ago
        Yes and I recall a lawsuit, or something, about Honest being ironically dishonest about the “organic” things they offer. But I’m not willing to fight over this one, so unless they cause a real problem it’s probably going to stay that way.
ImprovedSilence 8y ago
We had a baby carrier on our list. It looked like someone bought it, but we never received it. I think someone bought it for themselves, and Amazon took it off our registry. But the bigger thing that pissed me off was that they give you a $100 credit for diapers and wipes, but the only selection you could use it on was bottom of the barrel ones, and the wipes shipped to us were weeks/days out from expiration (we checked, same item bought at target expires 1+ year out). Didn't buy diapers from them, cuz my sister got sketchy counterfeit pampers and boxes full of random shit. (I don't know what they saw wrong with the diapers, but all the big brands have serial numbers (for getting points or whatever), and their amazon diapers didn't show up in pampers system...
arkades 8y ago
After all the problems with the counterfeiting etc., I wanted a straight up “shareable list” approach to a registry when my wife and I conceived. I ended up pretty happy with Babylist, which is basically a nice centralized tool for clipping item URLs and sharing them. Their business mode seems to be an in-app store, but it doesn’t seem to privilege their store too much over third parties, and there don’t appear to be any ads in the actual registry shared with folks. It’s as close to the no-frills solution that I originally wanted as I could find. I’ve been pretty happy with it.

Happened to us a few months ago. We got a pair of baby bath kits we didn't ask for. We looked afterward, and saw the ads mixed into our list with no way to remove them. Incredibly slimy practice.

hbosch 8y ago

Same with my wife and I. We have already been hemming and hawing with our parents about buying high quality products as a general rule – nothing against Fisher Price or Greco, but we have just decided on nicer things – and in this spirit have intentionally selected a diaper subscription service rather than buying certain other brands via Walmart/Target/Amazon/etc. (In fact, we originally rejected the idea of a baby shower or registry so that we could just buy everything ourselves). Anyways, we were surprised to see packages of Huggies showing up on our doorstep. Not only did we never add Huggies to the registry, we never added any diapers period. When we checked the registry again, we saw some Huggies ads spliced in discretely and almost imperceptibly. It speaks to our modern day lives that we simply said "wow, they put an ad in our registry... guess that's what Amazon does now" and just kicked off the return process. We've probably wound up with >$100 in Amazon credits based on returned Huggies at this point.

coleifer 8y ago
But everyone makes fun of the püpli kids! https://youtu.be/krwyCx-ko_s https://youtu.be/krwyCx-ko_s
arkades 8y ago
What diaper service did you end up choosing?
- hbosch 8y ago
  My wife chose to get monthly bundles from Honest (www.honest.com).
  - joering2 8y ago
    That's was initially my choice, but wife told me "a woman with STD will not be putting a diaper on my kid's ass". Then I looked up she was referring to Jessica Alba (the owner) The net is full of terrible reviews but the whole company marketing scheme was based on pure fear mongering. They tried to argue that other diapers are dangerous for your baby. Then when that unsubstantiated fake news got popular, Honest deleted off the website related to it and redirected everyone to their home page. Slimy. Great reading you can start here: https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/06/honest-diapers-are-all-the-rage-these-days-but-are-they-really-any-better-than-huggies.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/06/honest-diapers-are-...
    - trolololooo 8y ago
      What exactly does STD status have to do with any of the rest of this?
      - joering2 8y ago
        Its a branding thing. Would you buy a childcare services from Jeffrey Epstein? Or give your investment money to Elizabeth Holmes?
    - ALittleLight 8y ago
      How much is the subscription fee to get Jessica Alba to put a diaper on your child?
    - hbosch 8y ago
      Yes and I recall a lawsuit, or something, about Honest being ironically dishonest about the “organic” things they offer. But I’m not willing to fight over this one, so unless they cause a real problem it’s probably going to stay that way.

ImprovedSilence 8y ago

We had a baby carrier on our list. It looked like someone bought it, but we never received it. I think someone bought it for themselves, and Amazon took it off our registry. But the bigger thing that pissed me off was that they give you a $100 credit for diapers and wipes, but the only selection you could use it on was bottom of the barrel ones, and the wipes shipped to us were weeks/days out from expiration (we checked, same item bought at target expires 1+ year out). Didn't buy diapers from them, cuz my sister got sketchy counterfeit pampers and boxes full of random shit. (I don't know what they saw wrong with the diapers, but all the big brands have serial numbers (for getting points or whatever), and their amazon diapers didn't show up in pampers system...

arkades 8y ago

After all the problems with the counterfeiting etc., I wanted a straight up “shareable list” approach to a registry when my wife and I conceived. I ended up pretty happy with Babylist, which is basically a nice centralized tool for clipping item URLs and sharing them. Their business mode seems to be an in-app store, but it doesn’t seem to privilege their store too much over third parties, and there don’t appear to be any ads in the actual registry shared with folks. It’s as close to the no-frills solution that I originally wanted as I could find. I’ve been pretty happy with it.