{"id":7144,"date":"2015-11-16T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T05:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2016-07-24T01:19:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T08:19:04","slug":"the-chicco-keyfit-30-car-seat-has-deceptive-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/the-chicco-keyfit-30-car-seat-has-deceptive-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicco Keyfit 30 Car Seat Advertising is Intentionally Deceptive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advertising for the Chicco Keyfit 30 Car Seat is intentionally deceptive.<\/p>\n

\"chiccoshop\"<\/a>The Chicco website says \u00a0that it holds a baby \u00a0“from 4-30 lbs” but they never mention that there is a very important height restriction. This is a dangerous and deceptive lie by omission. (See the Chicco website<\/a>) (local archive<\/a>). \u00a0But the manual<\/a> \u00a0is very clear that it supports a baby “4-30 lbs, 30 inches or less.”<\/strong>
\n\"30<\/a><\/p>\n

You might be thinking, “Yeah, whatever, that is a small matter.” No, it isn’t.<\/p>\n

The average baby outgrows the car seat by weight when they turn 30 months \u00a0(2 1\/2 years) old. \u00a0<\/strong>But the average baby outgrows the car seat by height at 12 months old!<\/strong> \u00a0(see the \u00a0CDC height and weight tables<\/a>) Our baby was 30″ tall at 9 1\/2 months!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The manual dictates that the product lasts 60% less than its marketing claims. That is deceptive advertising.<\/strong> \u00a0Imagine buying a car that had a 10 year, 40,000 mile<\/strong> warranty! Would you feel cheated?<\/p>\n

The Amazon ad<\/a> doesn’t mention this height restriction either \u00a0(local archive<\/a>).<\/p>\n

We’ve had our \u00a0Chicco Keyfit 30 Car Seat for a few months now and it has performed well. But our daughter outgrew it more than a year and a half sooner than we were led to believe by Chicco.<\/p>\n

It is a fine product, they don’t need to stoop to this deception. This deception is dangerous for children<\/strong> \u00a0because if you \u00a0were to only read the marketing information, you might \u00a0use this seat long after it was safe to do so.<\/p>\n

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Advertising for the Chicco Keyfit 30 Car Seat is intentionally deceptive. The Chicco website says \u00a0that it holds a baby \u00a0“from 4-30 lbs” but they never mention that there is a very important height restriction. This is a dangerous and deceptive lie by omission. (See the Chicco website) (local archive). \u00a0But the manual \u00a0is very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7148,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}