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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
by 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 agoBut everyone makes fun of the püpli kids! https://youtu.be/krwyCx-ko_s https://youtu.be/krwyCx-ko_s
- arkades 8y agoWhat diaper service did you end up choosing?
- hbosch 8y agoMy wife chose to get monthly bundles from Honest (www.honest.com).
- joering2 8y agoThat'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 agoWhat exactly does STD status have to do with any of the rest of this?
- joering2 8y agoIts a branding thing. Would you buy a childcare services from Jeffrey Epstein? Or give your investment money to Elizabeth Holmes?
- ALittleLight 8y agoHow much is the subscription fee to get Jessica Alba to put a diaper on your child?
- hbosch 8y agoYes 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.