Sometimes I can’t help but wonder who they’re marketing towards with modern baby furniture. Like the Ooba Nest Bassinet, for example. Okay Ooba, you got me. I want your bassinet. It’s beautiful, elegant, matches my existing decor, and turns into a toybox/play table when baby is done with it. But you’ve priced it at $800. I feel compelled to ask: Who the fuck would spend $800 on a bassinet? Is this piece marketed strictly towards celebrities and Real Estate Magnates? I guess at $800, you don’t need a very broad consumer base, but seriously? A $2500 crib is one thing. It’s extreme, and I can’t quite wrap my head around spending that amount of money on a piece of childrens furniture (then again, I can’t really wrap my head around spending that amount of money on anything that doesn’t have an engine and tires) but I’m sure there are people out there who would rationalize a purchase like that based on the length of use. The bassinet on the other hand, will be used for maybe six months tops. More likely two. (More likely zero, because the people who are buying an $800 bassinet probably have full-time night nurses, so their babies aren’t sleeping in their rooms for any stretch of time.) The purpose of this rant? I want this freaking bassinet! It’s so pretty! Look at it! Unfortunately, thanks to Ooba’s lunatic pricing, I can’t even file it under “Stuff I would buy if I could” because I wouldn’t. ever. spend. that. much. on. a. bassinet.
*Sigh* Last week I thought I was going to get lucky and score one on eBay when a first-time seller (who has a feedback score of “0” these days?) listed one for $100. I got super psyched and started imagining it in it’s spot in my bedroom. I was the high bidder all week, until about 2 minutes before the auction ended and it was bid up to $487. Which gets me thinking…who the fuck would spend $487 on a used bassinet?
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