Baby Registry Welcome Box (assorted box)

Once I finally received my box, I was very disappointed to open a tiny box that was almost empty. Those boxes people have raved about are gone! What is being sent out now for Feb 2019 is about 4-5 samples that consist of 2 nursing breast pads (1night/1day time style) 1 pampers diaper clutch with 1 diaper sz1 a 6 count sample wipes and coupons. 1 draft one load laundry detergent sample, a 4oz Avent bottle, an honest company sample with 2 sz1 diapers and a Muslin blanket. That’s it!!! Not even close to $35 worth. Amazon needs to step up their registry. If it’s that you don’t have enough items to send out with the boxes, then don’t. Make them worth it to receive and open and be amazed not utterly disappointed by the items that are not original or even something expecting parents will be excited too use. Only thing I’m keeping is the blanket. 🙁

I first heard of these boxes from YouTube reviews and saw that the boxes were filled with lots of deluxe size samples as well as full size products. This box claims to be a $35 value and is very hit or miss, me and my baby’s father both created a registry and unknowingly each received a registry welcome box.

The first box we received included; 1 Swaddle Designs swaddle blanket, 2 moon and back onesies, 1 mam bottle, 1 boon bottle, 1 pampers registry gift bag with 1 diaper, sample wipes, gift bag and coupons, 1 Huggies diaper sample, water wipes travel pack, honest diaper sample with 2 diapers, 1 cetaphil baby lotion sample, 1 honest baby wash sample, scent nursing pads day and night, 1 dreft sample, 1 nuk pacifier and lots of coupons.

The second box we received was complete trash including; 1 open mam bottle, 1 open pampers registry bag with coupons and paper wrapper, empty wrappers for 1 avent bottle, empty wrapper for nursing pads and 1 empty honest lotion sample. I contacted customer service letting them know my box was just full of trash and they let me know I could order a replacement but I need to shop back the old box.

I just received the replacement box which included; 1 swaddle designs swaddle blanket, 1 avent bottle, 1 set of nursing disposable nursing pads, 1 set of sample water wipes, 1 honest lotion sample, 1 dreft sample.

I’m not one to complain about getting things for free especially because we got 2 boxes. Older boxes were filled with so many items and had amazing reviews. The 1st box we received had fewer items but still very amazing and worth the $35 value. The 2nd box unfortunately was filled with just trash and open/used items. I was very pleased that I was given the option to get a replacement which although not as good as the 1st box still had useful items but is not worth the $35 value.

So I met my eligibility requirements. I filled my checklist, am already Prime, and I made a $10 purchase. My “box” arrived and like others I was completely underwhelmed by what was inside, but more on that in a moment.

The items I purchased from my registry were two different brands of prenatal moisturizers (for me of course). I removed one of them after I completed the requirements for the box, because I figured – I don’t need this anymore, why even keep it on my registry? The other one I actually kept on the registry because I figured I would need it again before my pregnancy was over. Well, it turned out that removing one of the $10 minimum threshold for qualifying items from your welcome box, even after it was delivered to me, actually triggers your box to be charged! So I was charged $35 plus tax for this “box” even though I completed all of the steps. Therefore, this warning should exist on Amazon’s Baby Registry FAQ page but it does not, so heed it now:
DO NOT REMOVE ANY OF YOUR QUALIFYING PURCHASES OF $10 FROM YOUR REGISTRY IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR BOX (EVEN IF YOU ALREADY RECEIVED YOUR BOX, THEY WILL CHARGE YOU).

I called Amazon support and they told me the only way to reverse this would be to return my box and be refunded for it. I honestly cannot believe that they have access to my order history, can corroborate my explanation, but still refused to make this right and instead the only way to resolve it is by forcing me to return my box. So really, I went through this process for nothing.

On to the quality of the box. I am ONLY reviewing it because I can honestly agree it would not be worth the $35 I was in fact charged for it. I had meagre samples and I really don’t see how any of these items would help me make better decisions about what products I may want/need for baby in the future. First off, let’s call it what it was: it was a small bag, NOT a box and it contained the following:

-1 swaddle blanket
-1 3-6 mo old onesie (really, why not a 0-3 mo old onesie? but ok)
-1 single pack sample of Dreft laundry detergent
-1 3 ct. pack of diapers
-1 single pack sample of Desitin
-1 single pack sample of Baby ointment
-1 hotel sized bottle of Aveeno baby
-1 4oz. bottle
-1 3pk of honest company wipes (not pictured)

So again maybe if it were in fact only supposed to cost me the $10 I already spent from my registry this would have been fine, but to be charged $35 for this? Absolutely not. I would say there was literally about $10 worth of items here, and I am only counting the full size onesie and blanket because those samples cost manufacturers almost nothing to produce.

I am extremely disappointed with the way Amazon handled this situation and with the box itself. So let me reiterate: DO NOT REMOVE ANY OF ITEMS THAT MAKE UP YOUR QUALIFYING PURCHASES OF $10 FROM YOUR REGISTRY IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR BOX. THEY WILL CHARGE YOU FOR THIS BOX AND IT IS NOT WORTH IT.