Choice A: A new car seat that has never been opened in a fully sealed box that has been sitting in a garage for over a year where the temperatures and moisture have varied and we store gasoline cannisters and other garage stuff. Box is now dusty and dirty. But box is in good condition.
Choice B: A car seat that is new that just arrived today from Diapers.com that is busted open and the car seat is exposed (top lid tape busted open either during shipping or in their wherehouse). Box is beat up.
Thanks for your vote!
Re: Which would you pick?
This. In addition I would call diapers.com and let them know what happened and insist that they send you a new seat, one that preferably isn't mangled.
Choice A and contact Diapers.com for a return authorization.
If you had been using carseat A for the last year it would still have been sitting in your garage all this time...only it would have been installed in your car instead of sitting in the box. Not that different, IMO.
This!
Oliver's Mom is wise. This is what I would do, too.
I cosign on this idea!
DD1 Feb 2010
DD2 Sept 2011
This