Boori sleigh or Boori sleigh royalle??

[helle]

there ... just thought I would let you know in my travels today DP and i questioned the Boori cots and tested the wood itself. Much to our disappointment, without ANY pressure what-so-ever DP ran his fingernail along the wood and sure enough a scratch line showed up, I pressed on with with my nail and it dented!

Speaking to the lady instore she said Boori has split into '2' companies where the wood comes from overseas and the cots are painted here, the wood USED to be sourced from New Zealand and was New Zealand hardwood, but since the company has split into '2' they outsourced to obviously a cheaper option (and less quality) to an asian country.

We will not be buying a Boori - the representative said Boori is not what they USED to be, before the company split they were fabulous quality, now its cheap crap sold at a ridiculous price.

We will be buying a Love n Care sleigh bed, they retail for around $700 the love n care also felt sturdier than the Boori.

Hopefully those who have purchased the Boori dont have any issues with their purchase!

That's what the baby shop said to us too. When we first got our cot the two ends hadn't been joined properly and popped apart so we had to get replacements. N'yeah. They said about the asia thing. Coulda said prior to buying. It is extremely disappointing. I feel gutted whenever I look at mine. Such a waste of money. we also got the baby to youth cot - so it converts to a king single - so I'm gonna be looking at it for a long while yet!!
Glad you won't have to make the same mistake tho!

[KimB]

I have the Australiana Heritage Collection Cot and couldn't be happier. I bought it 2nd hand and it had no scratches or marks on it and it has now done 2 of my kids and will be used for a 3rd and there is still no marks or scratches. Bugger about the Boori cots though. What a rip off.

[Ahurani]

Oh what are you serious???? I might need to go back to the shop and do some investigating!

[MissM]

Im just really glad that tams raised the subject! (Thanks Tams!) otherwise we would have bought one ourselves!

Sorry to hear that you were stuffed around and wasted yout money on it

[Ahurani]

It says on the website its made from Araucaria Queensland sustainable plantation timber.

[CrazyLady]

It says on the website its made from Araucaria Queensland sustainable plantation timber.

That means it's a faster growing wood and as a result softer. How disappointing they use inferior wood now. Glad I didn't buy one for DD then. My friend was raving about her's but it would have been bought about 4 years ago