If you buy new baby equipment for hundreds of dollars instead of buying it used for a few cents on the dollar, you are highly affluent and / or deluded.
Babies grow up so fast that almost any equipment is in very good condition after they've outgrown it.
Not just growing fast, but the products tend to be very sturdily built in order to keep the baby protected, so can last a long time as well.
We had a crib last 4 generations, passing around the family, looked like something out of the Adam's family. A cousin threw it away after her kids outgrew it, boy was she pissed when she found out that it had been a valuable antique (we found a similar one online to show her the price) and that it had been a loan, so now she had to replace it ($$$).
If you buy an expensive product in good faith thats supposed to work out of the box and then one day its "Oh, you need to pay us a monthly fee from now on or you'll have a brick" then people have a right to be pissed off. No doubt there was some weazel wording that this was a possibility in appendix D paragraph 94 of the T&Cs that you had to click through but thats no excuse.
If they can't afford it, they should probably return their babies.
If you buy new baby equipment for hundreds of dollars instead of buying it used for a few cents on the dollar, you are highly affluent and / or deluded.
Babies grow up so fast that almost any equipment is in very good condition after they've outgrown it.
Not just growing fast, but the products tend to be very sturdily built in order to keep the baby protected, so can last a long time as well.
We had a crib last 4 generations, passing around the family, looked like something out of the Adam's family. A cousin threw it away after her kids outgrew it, boy was she pissed when she found out that it had been a valuable antique (we found a similar one online to show her the price) and that it had been a loan, so now she had to replace it ($$$).
If you buy an expensive product in good faith thats supposed to work out of the box and then one day its "Oh, you need to pay us a monthly fee from now on or you'll have a brick" then people have a right to be pissed off. No doubt there was some weazel wording that this was a possibility in appendix D paragraph 94 of the T&Cs that you had to click through but thats no excuse.
The solution is obviously to stop having babies, which will hamper their business model, let alone any chance if growth.
Luckily, were all on Slashdot here...