Looking after the pennies.... (kiddicare.com)

Member Name: katestuartuk

Product:	kiddicare.com
Date:	25/02/08 (112 review reads)
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Advantages: Good quality branded products cheaper than the high street...

Disadvantages: some of the cheaper items are...well...likely to fall apart.

Kiddicare.com

I've always said you get what you pay for. Usually I'm right on this and have often found that paying a little more gets you a better quality product. Not always - it has to be said that as far as crunchy nut cornflakes are concerned, the non-branded, cheaper boxes are often as good, if not better, than their flash kellogs counterparts. However, this is not, as you may have noticed, a review about cornflakes.

Some regular readers will know that I recently had a lovely baby girl, and as such, have had to spend a lot of time and money searching out products to aid my motherhood experience. Everything from steam sterilisers to nappies and snot suckers (don't ask!) to shampoo. Some of the bigger items, like Eva's cot, her buggy, and the lovely padded rocking feeding chair (that is currently a dumping ground next to my side of the bed), required more cash and as a result more care, as we have been financially crippled by the loss of Himself's job the week before Christmas.

I was reading some reviews on Dooyoo when I came across one for a site called Kiddicare. Having not know of this before I proceeded to have a quick look and was incredibly suprised at how much cheaper a lot of thee things we had already bought for Eva was on this site compared to other online retailers. We needed to buy Eva's cot and I was desperate for a chair to feed Eva in as my back was fit for breaking trying to feed her sitting on the bed in the mornings and at night.

We bought a chair, the cheapest cot we could find (£59.97), a Baby Weavers Glider Chair and Stool (£89.97), a Samsonite Travel Cot (£44.97) and a cute pink teether mouse affair (£5.99 - couldn't resist it!) and were amazed that the bill only came to £200.75. Not only that, but we got the delivery free and were sent a free travel blind system for the car. we don't have a car, but at a retail price of £19.99, it was a nice little freebie!

Ordering was easy, communication was excellent - we got emails through every set of the order process. When the order was accepted, when the order was despatched, adn even after the order was delivered, an email inviting us to review the products we had bought. All very good. The delivery came when they said it would , was packaged brilliantly, and everything was present and correct. I have to say that even though the cot broke after a week, our email to kiddicare was answered promptly, and withing 7 days we had replacement parts to fix the plastic parts that had broken.

The other items we bought have all been super and we've had no problems with the quality of the items we got. I am looking at buying Eva's High chair from this site as they are so much cheaper than other popular websites like Mothercare etc. Sometimes the discount is only small - for example we recently bought a Bumbo chair from John Lewis, priced at £29.99, and then found it on kiddicare at £27.97, so not much difference there, but the Samsonite travel cot was a good £5.00 cheaper than other places I had seen it and when you start to add up the pennies, you find that you're actually saving a great deal.

Would I use Kiddicare again? Certainly! And I can heartily recommend it to any of you new parents out there who are looking to save a few pennies for the college fund by buying good quality, branded goods at lower prices than you would find on the high street.

Top marks for Kiddicare.com!

Thank you for reading, Kate x

Summary: Recommended but stay away from the lower quality goods - you get what you pay for!