Post by trafficgirl on Jun 20, 2013 13:48:51 GMT -5
Oooh, this is a good question!
I haven't registered yet, but was debating about Amazon, and potentially one other store that has somewhere brick and mortar people could shop. No Buy Buy Baby stores in our area, so it would either be Target or Babies R Us.
Post by urbancowgirl on Jun 20, 2013 14:00:09 GMT -5
I registered at Amazon and BRU. All of our friends and family live far away, so I thought Amazon made sense because they have free shipping on so many items. I chose BRU for old-school relatives who don't like to shop online. One drawback to BRU is that they don't carry a lot of items in-store.
I registered at Target, BRU, and Walmart. We did multiples to get a better selection of products, for completion discounts, and because this opens up the availability of me being able to return items for something else without traveling to another city where BRU is located since almost everything on our BRU registry is also on the Target and/or Walmart.
I was just going to do Target and BRU, but S's family lives in the middle of Amish country in NY so for his family Walmart is the most convenient option. Target is a little over an hour away, BRU is 2 hours away, and NONE of them will shop online. If I didn't register at Walmart I'd end up getting stuff I didn't like/want and I'd be a little more stuck whereas now they'll buy off the registry.
Post by winecheery on Jun 20, 2013 15:11:20 GMT -5
Amazon, because their universal registry feature is awesome. I chose some products from brick and mortar stores (Pottery Barn, Target, BRU, BabyGAP) and also several online places (Boon, Oompa, Aden+ Anais, Amazon) and they are all listed on the Amazon registry in one neat place. It's going well so far...still early tho.
But registering was easy for me to do, and this didn't limit me to any one store's selections. Which was really, really nice, because I didn't love everything at any one place. So my friends and fam can choose to order online or go in a store, and then go back to the online registry and select that they've purchased an item off the registry so it gets updated. They can have it shipped to me, or pick it up themselves.
I'm also loving that Amazon keeps track of who specifically bought what so you know who to thank and where to mail the thank you card (if they are from out of town). I think it's a pretty well thought out service.
Post by littlemisschatty on Jun 20, 2013 15:49:18 GMT -5
BBB and BRU. Mainly because of the coupons and the convenience. Most of my guests would probably not order gifts online (like aunts and older women) so I didnt do Amazon.
BBB and BRU. Mainly because of the coupons and the convenience. Most of my guests would probably not order gifts online (like aunts and older women) so I didnt do Amazon.
Ditto this. Most of my guests are clueless about Amazon.
Target....was not impressed by their registry service.
How does Amazon universal registry work? But I don't really want people to have to go online and update if they've purchased stuff.
So Target sucks for registering? I love Target and had planned on making this my #1.
They don't have to update the registry after they make a purchase; it's just an option. Like below the item it will say "Purchased elsewhere" and you can update it yourself.
Basically you sign up for the baby registry, and then I believe under settings you can get a little amazon button added to your menu bar like the Pin It button for Pinterest.
And when you shop other sites or stores, you click the amazon button and a little window will drop down and ask if you want to add the item you're looking at to your registry.
Then you can organize your registry to include universal reg items under proper categories like Gear, Bath, Apparel, etc.
I registered at BRU and Amazon. Not many people ordered from my Amazon registry. More from BRU and a lot of people questioned why I didn't register at Target. But maybe that's just my family.
I registered at BRU and Amazon. Not many people ordered from my Amazon registry. More from BRU and a lot of people questioned why I didn't register at Target. But maybe that's just my family.
I think my family will also question why we didn't register at Target.
Please tell me the bad stuff about registering at Target.
Yes. Target and Amazon. I could easily just register at Amazon but knew that some people would feel more comfortable with an actual store, so I have some items there.
Post by trafficgirl on Jun 20, 2013 18:33:57 GMT -5
Jalapeñomel - it has to do with their return policy. I don't know the details, but I've heard bits and pieces here and there. And I think they talk about it in the Baby Bargains book, if you have that.
Jalapeñomel - it has to do with their return policy. I don't know the details, but I've heard bits and pieces here and there. And I think they talk about it in the Baby Bargains book, if you have that.
Jalapeñomel - it has to do with their return policy. I don't know the details, but I've heard bits and pieces here and there. And I think they talk about it in the Baby Bargains book, if you have that.
This.....and a friend of mine was not impressed with their service overall...which honestly surprised me! They had a better time at Walmart believe it or not. I originally planned on Target but then changed to BBB ( along with BRU).
Jalapeñomel - it has to do with their return policy. I don't know the details, but I've heard bits and pieces here and there. And I think they talk about it in the Baby Bargains book, if you have that.
I cannot download it, so I cannot get it here.
I can PM you with what the book says once I'm home if you want. You also might be able to look on the Baby Bargains website at their forums to see what other say.
I can PM you with what the book says once I'm home if you want. You also might be able to look on the Baby Bargains website at their forums to see what other say.
I can PM you with what the book says once I'm home if you want. You also might be able to look on the Baby Bargains website at their forums to see what other say.
I can't change my registry at this point but I am going to just make sure BRU carries what I registered for or what I receive and return it there. Without a receipt they will give me store credit which is fine with me.
Post by Lucille Bluth on Jun 21, 2013 8:44:04 GMT -5
I wish I had seen this earlier, because I was starting a Target registry... looks like back to the drawing board. The only thing I don't like about the Amazon universal is that they want access to all of my web browsing stuff if I use their pinning button. I'm sick of the internets encroaching for infos at every chance.
Post by fortnightlily on Jun 21, 2013 8:58:03 GMT -5
Another one for babyli.st. I like that I can aggregate from different sites, and people aren't forced to buy it from the place you bookmarked it from (i.e. I bookmarked most from Amazon, but someone with one of those 20% off Buy Buy Baby coupons is free to do that).
Naturally a few less tech-savvy relatives were super confused, but I'm not sure they would've been able to handle an Amazon registry, either, and I don't want to lock everyone into shopping at one brick-and-mortor since people live in various locations.