Great bargain!!

Few months ago we have been considering whether we should get a stroller for Esrene while letting the little jewel use her pram or we should get a double pram instead. After talking to a few friends who has 2 kids or more with close gap, we decided to go for double pram. Reason mainly due to Ida’s convenience when she has to go out alone with the kids to buy groceries, go clinic or run errand. It will be close to impossible for her to carry the new born in the carrier while dragging Esrene along and carry her shopping + Esrene is very active, refused to hold on to our hands when outside. Another benefit of double pram is we can put both of them down for their nap when we go out.

So now come down to double-decker double pram or side by side.  Some review shows that double-decker is unstable and the heavier one needs to always be at the bottom. Our concern is whether Esrene is willing to sit at the “bottom” of her sibling! Will she kick her sibling? So we focus on side by side pram. The only concern we have with this type of pram is the weight and size. During the long new year holiday, we took some time to go to a baby shop to try out their side by side pram and there’s not many brand available. The one that attract us is Baby Jogger City mini. It is quite a compact double pram and the lightest among the double pram (9kg).

Esrene happily sitting inside her new pram. She was trying to smile at the camera!

However that’s the most expensive in the store!!! Around AUD900!!!!! While we were trying out Baby Jogger, a grandma approached us and told us that we should check out ebay or online shop as she saw an online US seller selling for close to half a price even after include shipment.

This become Ida’s assignment to look for a good bargain online after that day!! Due to the restriction from Union to protect the retailers in Australia, not many international sellers are allowed to ship their goods which already in Australia market to this country. So it didn’t take long for Ida to find this US seller who sell Baby Jogger double pram and qualified to ship to Australia. And the price as told by the grandma is very good! Includes shipment we only paid around AUD560, that save us close to AUD400!! Strong AUD against USD also helps this purchase.

We were very surprised to receive the pram courier right in front our door step 1 week after the purchase!!! Very fast shipment with a nice compact packaging.

 

Esrene was so excited to see her new pram too! We have to keep telling her that she has to share the pram with her baby “mei mei”, which she noted “ya ya”.

This is how the pram looks like after collapse down. It has two easy pull handles in the middle to collapse the pram. Compact enough for us to put inside our car boot. We hope that this double pram will serve us well like our mountain buggy swift. Of course we also hope the kids will feel comfortable sitting and sleeping on it.

Thank you “ma ma” for sponsoring us this pram!