Parents Outraged Over Overpriced Discontinued Tommy Tippee Cherry Soother Dummies Sold On eBay

Parents were outraged after discontinued popular Tommy Tippee Cherry Soother dummies were sold on eBay for over a hundred dollars.

The Tommee Tippee Cherry Soother and Happy Baby dummies were so very popular among mums to give to their babies. They used to be available in supermarkets for just $5.

However, when the products changed its design and the company decided to stop using the original design, mums went into a mad frenzy over the original design, and desperate ones took the bait of money-grabbing opportunists who sell the ones with the original design on eBay for more than a hundred dollars.

A Sydney mum-of-two said that her two children love the original design. “Both my children used it and took to it straight away. When they changed the design recently, my son didn’t seem to like the base of the dummy wrapped so close to his face, so I’ve been trying to find the old school style,” she told Kidspot.

She was shocked when she saw on eBay that just one dummy was going for a whopping $79 plus $8.99 for postage.

“When I came across this packet I was horrified! That’s one expensive good night’s sleep! There’s no way I could justify that, especially at the rate that we lose them,” she said.

Kidspot also browsed through dummies on eBay and came across three dummies with the asking price of $270 and one single pink dummy has been sold for $110 – plus $7.99 postage.

The change has affected a lot of mums that one South Australian, mum-of-three Karina, has started the Facebook group Bring Back the Original Cherry Soothers, whose members are just as disgusted by the highway robbery.

“It’s disgusting I have paid ridiculous money on eBay as well. Not happy. It’s extortion and totally unfair that someone wage households need to resort to buying these dummies on eBay and spending a lot of money for something that was only a few dollars before! So unfair and makes me sick!” says one mum.

Karina says Tommee Tippee told her on Facebook that the reason for the new designs was to include an improved way of securing more of the baglet to the shield to reduce the risk of it becoming detached – which exceeds both Australian and European standards.

“I was told ‘The addition of the air vent to the baglet makes them more flexible and softer for a baby’s delicate palette’,” she explains.

Karina says it just makes no sense to change the design. “If it ain’t broke – don’t fix it. The new ones don’t satisfy crying babies who are used to the original shape – which in turn causes unnecessary stress to the parents when they have a tired crying baby,” she says. “And the new ones cause skin irritations – whereas the old ones don’t. I already have a baby with extra sensitive skin who gets eczema on his face. I don’t want to use something that exacerbates it.”

Kidspot contacted Tommee Tippee to find out why the popular Cherry Soothers and Happy Baby designs were changed, but had not heard back at the time of publishing.

Source: Kidspot.com.au