| I'm sure you have read the articles about the | | | | thinks that the budget of the mother is more |
| massive recall of baby cribs in recent months. | | | | important than anything. FREE SHIPPING was the |
| There is nothing that can be said for taking this | | | | most popular phrase. Noting is free when it comes |
| issue lightly. When babies are at risk, the issue | | | | to how the net income gets on the supplier's |
| comes to the forefront automatically. On the | | | | bottom line. This in itself is dishonesty. When you |
| other hand, a mother can't afford to leave a child | | | | take the base resale price of the baby crib and |
| without all of her attention and go on a national | | | | add the freight to the price, then there is a way |
| crusade to educate suppliers to increase the | | | | to deceive the customer into thinking they are |
| quality standards of products. | | | | getting something for free. What about the |
| Baby Crib Haven was formed in the midst of this | | | | safety of the baby? Why are we obsessed on |
| issue for reasons other than just trying to create | | | | who has the item that is two dollars less? I really |
| another online store that ends up crowded full of | | | | believe that the process of safety begins at the |
| various products without a strict policy in place to | | | | manufacturer. But if the intervention and |
| screen the products for safety. The thought | | | | enticement of low cost parts and competition |
| process behind starting the online store was | | | | with other countries is the driving force, then |
| simply to research all of the manufacturing base | | | | babies who lost their life become only a headline in |
| and limiting the supply chain to only those | | | | a newspaper that ends up in the trash can. Items |
| manufacturers that were above a certain criteria. | | | | made in other countries, for all the mothers |
| The criteria used to select the products for the | | | | know, could have parts that were made in a |
| Baby Crib Haven online store comes from 34 | | | | basement lab and approved by a fifteen year old. |
| years of corporate experience at the ownership | | | | The fact is that babies are the only thing in the |
| level. The core of that experience involved being | | | | forefront and for all the online suppliers who lie |
| on technical specification committees where | | | | about their price to fish people in through Google |
| safety was the focal point. But this was in the | | | | and after you click through to the website the |
| heavy industrial sector where a product supplied | | | | price magically changes, there needs to be a clear |
| or used in aircraft, nuclear energy plants, railroads, | | | | message sent. The next time you hear your |
| chemical plants, etc., could not afford to lack in | | | | baby crying in the other room, think about the |
| safety. You have seen some of the disasters | | | | products you sold other people where you |
| caused by this. | | | | ignored safety in lieu of profit. |
| Having said this, it seems that sometimes the U.S. | | | | This mess we call global economy is starting to |
| industry puts more emphasis on the aircraft to | | | | get under people's skin in America. Especially those |
| make it perfect and forgets that it takes quality | | | | mothers who purchased a baby crib from |
| people to fly it. It became immediately apparent | | | | suppliers who sell out to profit and left the baby |
| that when it comes to baby cribs and the | | | | unattended. Especially the mothers who lost the |
| research began, that the first thing I found were | | | | child. Maybe the blame belongs to the process of |
| directories for wholesalers that looked like it was | | | | caving in to the supply and demand curve of |
| forbidden to list a U.S. manufacturer. In the first | | | | foreign exchange. When you look at the product |
| hour of research it was decided to partner with | | | | selection of the largest retail chains, there are |
| one U.S. firm with a wide selection of products to | | | | basically few American made products. When you |
| cover the scope of the product category. Also, a | | | | purchase items made offshore, they break or fail |
| firm that had quality people who could be trusted, | | | | repeatedly. The latches on your door, faucets |
| and could communicate on a daily basis in a | | | | that drip, handles that break, batteries that go |
| professional way. | | | | dead and even automobiles that have foreign |
| The second item that was interesting was the | | | | parts that tell you that your engine isn't running |
| fact that online suppliers of baby cribs, baby crib | | | | when you're driving the car down the road. |
| parts, toddler beds and lifetime cribs, didn't have | | | | Safety or price? A baby's life or profit? American |
| technical specifications and safety in the forefront. | | | | made or foreign? Baby Crib Haven has already |
| It's obvious to see that they have competition, | | | | made the decision to supply products where the |
| sales and profit in the forefront. This is based on | | | | safety is controlled in Ohio. |
| a faulty marketing system where the supplier | | | | |