So, I’d heard a while back (when I first started obsessively stalking baby furniture deals online) that overstock.com had sold the Netto Cub Sleeper (1.0, not 2.0, which is the one I dream about at night) and changer for the insanely low price of $180 and $130 respectively. Considering that the modern lines at Target and Walmart are between two and three hundred per piece, I think that’s an effing good deal. Naturally, I promptly signed up for alerts on both items so that should they become available, I could snatch them up and furnish the babe’s nursery in eco-friendly style. (The shi shi designers at Netto only use sustainably harvested wood.) (Is shi shi a word? Is it supposed to be chi chi? I googled, but came up short.)
Anyway – I had kind of forgotten about it, and had moved on to plotting how I was going to return my Graco Sarah Crib (from the Ellen Show) to Target so I could exchange it for the DwellStudio Silver Lake crib (sans drawer pulls) when I got an email from Overstock.com allerting my that my item was now in stock. YES! Could it be? Were the home furnishing gods cutting me a break? I rushed over to Overstock, only to discover that NO, it could not be…the item had sold right back out. Here’s the catch. The email came at 1:15am. (I was sleeping, of course. I’m pregnant! It’s exhausting!) But apparently, the other people who had signed up for this email alert are much crazier than me, because they were up and vigilantly waiting for that alert. Which begs the question – WHO IS SHOPPING FOR BABY FURNITURE BETWEEN 1 and 4AM, YOU LUNATICS?
Of course now I’m back on the case. I must get this deal. I need it. I can’t sleep until that crib is in my baby’s bedroom, and the savings are in my pocket. I’ll let you know how that pans out.
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