3rd Trimester

Buy now or wait?

Dh and I are having a disagreement about this....

We have not yet purchased our travel system and it's on sale $30 off right now.  Dh wants to wait until after my shower for his side of the family (July 9) before we purchase it. He really thinks his Grandma may buy it for us.  

I don't want to wait and not get it and then pay full price. Not to mention it would ease my mind to have it in my vehicle already.   Dh says it's only a week and a half longer, let's just wait.   

What should we do?

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Re: Buy now or wait?

  • How likely is it that Grandma would buy it or how positive is DH that she may?  I just think that $30 versus the possibility of not paying for it at all would be (for me at least) something worth waiting it out to see. 
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  • imageElatedMom2B:
    How likely is it that Grandma would buy it or how positive is DH that she may?  I just think that $30 versus the possibility of not paying for it at all would be (for me at least) something worth waiting it out to see. 

    I would not be surprised at all if she bought it for us.  I just feel like I can't expect anyone to purchase something that expensive for us either.

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  • If you have the money, I would buy it and return it if she buys it.
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  • imageCAM2007:
    If you have the money, I would buy it and return it if she buys it.

    This is exactly what I would do.  As long as you don't open it and keep the recipet they will take it back.  

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  • imageCAM2007:
    If you have the money, I would buy it and return it if she buys it.

    This was what I was going to say.  

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  • When is your shower and how long is the sale?  If its pretty likely that you'll get the system for a gift, I wouldn't buy it.  Did you register, will you get a completion coupon if no one gets it?  There are other ways to save your $30.  You'll likely get gift cards or have other returns that you'll turn into credit/cash after your shower.  Use that to get things like this that you might not otherwise get. 
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  • imageCAM2007:
    If you have the money, I would buy it and return it if she buys it.
    This.

    Or if you can't do that, I would wait. I was surprised at how much we got at our shower.  You never know.

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  • imageMrs.Albie:
    When is your shower and how long is the sale?  If its pretty likely that you'll get the system for a gift, I wouldn't buy it.  Did you register, will you get a completion coupon if no one gets it?  There are other ways to save your $30.  You'll likely get gift cards or have other returns that you'll turn into credit/cash after your shower.  Use that to get things like this that you might not otherwise get. 

    My shower is July 9.  The travel system is from Target, and I'm not sure how long it will be on sale.  We should get a completion coupon, but I'm not sure when we'll get it.    With the gift cards we have, we would only have to spend about $40 if we bought it now. 

    Maybe I'll see if my H wants to buy it now and just return it if we happen to get one as a gift.  Thanks for the ideas.

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  • Tell DH to tell his grandma that it's on sale right now and it would save her money if she was planning on buying it.  Or, buy it yourself and if she does get it, return yours. 
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  • imageCAM2007:
    If you have the money, I would buy it and return it if she buys it.

     I would do this as well. You can always take it back if she doesn't end up getting it. Do you know how long the $30 off will last? 

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    To me $30 isn't a whole lot of money when your talking about something as expensive as a travel system.  I would wait it out. 
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  • I would buy now to take advantage of the sale and then if you do get it, either return yours or exchange the gifted one for store credit at full price.  Win/win, right?
  • I would wait it out.  Even if grandma doesn't get it, lots of times groups from work or friends want to all chip in and get something big.  I think you're likely to get it.  

    And if not, BRU and other places are always having sales on travel systems.  

    Buy and return is good if you don't mind doing it, since you will probably be returning stuff anyway.  But I'd just hold tight for the shower.

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  • imageCAM2007:
    If you have the money, I would buy it and return it if she buys it.

    This is exactly what I would do.

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  • I would buy it and then return it if she purchases it for you. We were told by friends and family not to buy any of the big stuff (car seat, stroller, PnP, etc.) because they were going to get us everything we needed. Everything went on sale months before the shower (held when I was 34 weeks) and I just bought it on sale, but left it on the registry just in case. It was a good thing too because we did not receive a single thing at the shower, mostly clothes.

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