Diaper-Eez
Diaper-Eez is a cloth-diapering mecca in Bloor West Village. The store stocks a wide variety of different styles of cloth diapers, as well as nursing bras and accessories, stylish diaper bags and environmentally-conscious toys, clothes, hats and baby carriers. The staff here can teach a wannabe cloth diaper user everything there is to know.
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Hi there. Do you mail items to people in Toronto?
PRO: has a GREAT selection of cloth diapers and all the accessories. Also has a little bit of everything else an expecting, new or experienced mom would need - nursing bras (got 2 great simple ones for $20 each!), baby toys, diaper bags, baby clothes, kids shoes & slippers, baby carriers, baby journals, etc, etc!
CON: the sales staff.
EXPERIENCE: I visited today to see if they carried items besides diapers and to my happy surprise they did! However, I was looking for a specific baby carrier - a cloth/cotton (pref. organic) 2-shoulder similar to the Mama Kangaroo ones I'd seen online. They happened to have 3 brands ($84 and up), including an organic one.
A Sales Lady came to "assist" me and asked what I was looking for. I told her the above, 2-shoulder cloth carrier. So, instead of showing or letting me try out the THREE brands of the baby carrier I'm looking for, she decides to shows me a sling. I let her know I've tried the sling and am not interested in it.
She continues to model the sling for me, then asks what baby carrier I have already. I say a "Baby Bjorn" but again, I'm looking for a cloth carrier. So now does she show me the 3 different brands they carry? Or talk to me about the kind I'm looking for? Nope. Now she moves on to model and talk about the ERGO baby carrier - very similar looking to the Bjorn! I remind her I have a Bjorn, I'm familiar with the Bjorn, i'm HAPPY with the Bjorn but am looking for a softer carrier for my sons first weeks (I'm 35 wks and counting!).
Now I just go pick up and look at the different brands of the kind carrier I'm looking for. Now will she help me and tell me the pros of each brand? No. Instead she tells me how the one I'm holding (that they are selling for $110!) is not so great because of "this" reason.
Um...why sell a product, for over $100!!!, if you think it's crap??
Anyway, the story goes on, but it ends with me not buying any carrier from them and no intention of returning to their store. Which is a shame, because they do have a good selection...just be prepared to be TOLD what you want.
I think it's lame for Victoria to air her experience above.
1. there's three sides to every story
2. did you approach the stores owner before hand to give her your two cents?
Five paragraphs about your 'lousy' experience? Sounds like you there might be more to this than you're letting on?