Comments for labby.co.uk http://labby.co.uk Just another WordPress site Sat, 05 May 2012 17:34:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on Dangerous iCandy pushchair issues by Dawn Vernon http://labby.co.uk/2011/03/dangerous-icandy-pushchair-issues/#comment-1335 Dawn Vernon Sat, 05 May 2012 17:34:26 +0000 http://labby.co.uk/?p=58#comment-1335 As an Independent Nursery Retailer established 15 years ago we feel we have quite a lot of experience with nursery products. We made the decision to stop stocking iCandy products 4 years ago now. We could not carry on selling their products in good faith. We experienced a 100% return rate on the iCandy Cherry. Faults such as front wheel failure, brake issues etc. We experienced a 70% return rate on the Apple, again problems such as the folding mechanism jamming and more commonly the seat unit suddenly dropping backwards. Whilst we accept that there isn't a wheeled product on the market that will not, at one point or another, have a fault, we felt that the return rate on icandy products was completely unacceptable. Sadly what we found even more appalling was the attitude of the company. Their blatant disregard for is customers and safety of their children was nothing short of shocking. Sadly years later blogs like this are still around and customers are still more than happy to hand over obscene amounts of money for a product that offers no additional features to those on the market that can be purchased for less. My advise would be, if you were thinking of purchasing iCandy look around first. Look at Silver Cross, Babystyle, Britax, Bugaboo, Jane and so many other fabulous products from manufacturers that value their customers and will go the extra mile. As an Independent Nursery Retailer established 15 years ago we feel we have quite a lot of experience with nursery products. We made the decision to stop stocking iCandy products 4 years ago now. We could not carry on selling their products in good faith. We experienced a 100% return rate on the iCandy Cherry. Faults such as front wheel failure, brake issues etc. We experienced a 70% return rate on the Apple, again problems such as the folding mechanism jamming and more commonly the seat unit suddenly dropping backwards. Whilst we accept that there isn’t a wheeled product on the market that will not, at one point or another, have a fault, we felt that the return rate on icandy products was completely unacceptable. Sadly what we found even more appalling was the attitude of the company. Their blatant disregard for is customers and safety of their children was nothing short of shocking. Sadly years later blogs like this are still around and customers are still more than happy to hand over obscene amounts of money for a product that offers no additional features to those on the market that can be purchased for less. My advise would be, if you were thinking of purchasing iCandy look around first. Look at Silver Cross, Babystyle, Britax, Bugaboo, Jane and so many other fabulous products from manufacturers that value their customers and will go the extra mile.

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I have have the same text message sent every 2 hours through the night!!

This is how they told me to disable it:
(If the above doesn’t work for you …..it didn’t for me)

Dial 0800 587 5252
Press 1
then without waiting press * twice
Press 1
Press 5

That should do it.

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What is the error you are getting?

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Looks like a great quick fix though

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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; MATM)]]> Comment on Dangerous iCandy pushchair issues by Anna Whelan Porter http://labby.co.uk/2011/03/dangerous-icandy-pushchair-issues/#comment-1289 Anna Whelan Porter Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:01:02 +0000 http://labby.co.uk/?p=58#comment-1289 I purchased an iCandy apple jogger pushchair in November 2011 and have had niggly problems with the front wheel jamming and bits breaking here and there, but my big gripe is that the bumper bar is dangerous. Beware! I had my baby facing me fortunately so I saw him choking, he had bitten a large chunk of the foam off the bumper bar. I informed iCandy about this hazzard (stupidly I thought they'd be interested) and they told me that it is not a manufacturing defect and the pushchair meets all the safety standards! I am appalled by their attitude towards safety and reading this blog makes me wish I had never bought an iCandy. Well I'm not leaving it there, I shall go to trading standards and do whatever is necessary. I've got a health & safety consultant on to this now, so we'll see where it goes. I will keep posting updates. I purchased an iCandy apple jogger pushchair in November 2011 and have had niggly problems with the front wheel jamming and bits breaking here and there, but my big gripe is that the bumper bar is dangerous. Beware! I had my baby facing me fortunately so I saw him choking, he had bitten a large chunk of the foam off the bumper bar. I informed iCandy about this hazzard (stupidly I thought they’d be interested) and they told me that it is not a manufacturing defect and the pushchair meets all the safety standards! I am appalled by their attitude towards safety and reading this blog makes me wish I had never bought an iCandy. Well I’m not leaving it there, I shall go to trading standards and do whatever is necessary. I’ve got a health & safety consultant on to this now, so we’ll see where it goes. I will keep posting updates.

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Now I am really, really upset to learn that it will probably fall apart the minute it arrives :(

I’m really worried, especially because it’s the last pushchair that I’ll be buying (my husband made me promise not to buy another one ever again.)

*sigh* Guess I’ll be back here in a few weeks with news about wheels falling off and a baby being tipped out of its seat :(

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I took this apart to see what the issue was and one of the cables had snapped that operates the mech.
In addition to this interestingly the aluminum handle had stress fractures eminating away from the holes where the button goes.

So a call to I-candy to see about repairs, they said as we moved overseas we voided all warranties!!! – Scumbags, they take nearly 800 pounds of my money and cant even back up their warranty.
Anyone know if they can legally do this? – Ive continued to search on this subject and willing to take tem to court (After all I am in the US now!)

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