August 16, 2011
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LOOK AROUND BEFORE YOU BUY IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES !!
This happened to me when i was in Chennai !!
My first experience at the shop was pleasant as well as shocking. I had been buying dresses
for my LO for the past 4 months and pretty know the rates and brands. This "Child World" brand Overalls [baba suit in chennai ] cost about Rs.450 in other lesser known shops. The same brand, same suit costs Rs.890 in Just born! Whoa!! that is day light robbery !!
They were ready to show the demo for their Breast Pumps, the sales girl showed me one Pump which was branded as "Just Born" and as i asked if it is fully automatic, she said NO and brought another product. Which was way better than this JB [Just Born] brand pump, it was named "Don Baby", I immediately searched for the brand, and found out, it was made in Taiwan, China. It is a known brand in those parts of the world, but not so popular.
Well, I was impressed with this fully automatic she showed me, mainly because it was a full silicon soft suction cup, unlike the others which have a plastic cup..!! while the owner of JB came to us, and saw what was happening. She took over from the sales girl, showed some strong resent to her and chased her away. Then she also made the sales girl take back the Don
Baby branded, fully automatic away from the table, and started to pour in sales pitches for the JB branded product.This is a suction only pump, that means, your breast will be sucked sucked and sucked till you manually press the "release button"
I was very skeptic about how this will be a good choice when the other pump was a Suck~Release~Suck action automatic pump. Well after a lot of ifâs and buts and she persuading us to go for this pump, we bought this JB branded pump, [me thinking, what the heck, let me check it out, if it fails let me throw it in the bin and get another one !
Well first I wish to explain is, this JB branded pump is also the same brand "Don Baby" made in taiwan, China. THE BOX SHOWS IT AS MADE IN TAWAIN, ROC ( THEY WANT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT IT IS MADE IN CHINA FROM WE PEOPLE. How many will notice the ROC Republic Of China acronym?
The very intention was bad, they could have told me this was a Chinese product, rebranded by us in India, so you make the choice. Instead they cheated me by calling it as JUST BORN brand machine, and persuading me to buy this one !
We came home and sat after dinner to test the pump. It is a SEMI~Automatic pump. BEWARE, it does not release on its own, it does not have any rhythmic setting to mimic the baby suction. It is just like a manual pump, but it is either battery/adapter operated. You have to keep pressing the release button to make it work properly.
Seriously BAD
1. NO Warranty! [Pigeon comes with a 6 month Warranty] Pigeon is Japanese made! Silent motor,
2. NOT BPA Free. So the bottle nor the Plastic body are NON BPA Free, cannot store your milk in there. I will be searching for a BPA~Free Bottle that will fit this Pump. [Avent/Pigeon/Nuby]
3. Buzzing Noise
Use caution before purchasing from Just Born.
If cost is your problem, get the new Pigeon pump, it is Rs.2000 more than this, worth the piece of mind. It comes with warranty, and a BPA free plastic.
I think I wont pay a penny more to these guys who are not ethically honest.
Just Born = Dishonest people!