I am going to buy mine tomorrow!!! but I have to say ( this is going to sound strange) we are living in aussie and I think the grey ones you hire are so wrong! Im from NZ and the ones you hire are like the ones you buy. I just dont like them. I do think the reasale on them is ok too.
I am actually hiring one like what you buy (not the bucket one).. I am hiring it through an independent baby store and it is costing about $80 more than the bucket one..

Just OT for a sec, is it not compulsary to anchor carseats in NZ?