Baby Deal Of The Day Sites

BabyHalfOff.com - Where Everything's Always At Least Half Off

A Baby Deal Of The Day Site With Some Added Perks

• One of the coolest things about BabyHalfOff.com that makes it unique from other daily deal sites is that they have an archive where you can browse through deals you may have missed and purchase them. So you may have a chance to score a great deal if you have second thoughts the next day and wished you bought something.
• In the archive section of their website, you can also sometimes find double deals. Happy hunting!
• Occasionally BabyHalfOff.com will offer more than one vendor in celebration of a holiday or if they've got an abundance of great deals to pass along.
• You can sign up for their newsletter to get even more daily deals and make the most of other special giveaways and promotions.
• Orders are promptly packaged within 1-2 days of placing your order and BabyHalfOff.com ships to both the US and Canada (though Canadian orders have longer shipping time.)
• Another BabyHalfOff.com bonus is the "Baby Shower Blast". These come up every few months and they're really fun! Hope you catch one!
• The downside? Sometimes the shipping negates the fact that you're getting an awesome deal.

BabySteals.com Has Some Great Deals!

A Traditional Deal Of The Day Website For Baby Products

• Great products offered! BabySteals has some really fun bargains and often has some higher end products at great discounts. It is always fun to see what they have featured each day. Here are some common brands/products that have been know to crop up on BabySteals.com: Mimi the Sardine, Motherlove, Ergo, Petunia Picklebottom, OiOi, JuJuBe, Babylegs, Aden + Anais, Haba, Itzy Ritzy, Skip Hop and tons of other great ones!
• Nice website. This site also has a really nice site design with good images of the products offered.
• Contests and giveaways. When you visit BabySteals.com, check out their blog to enter the latest contest or giveaway. While there may not alway be a contest going on, you never know what you will find on the blog.
• Decent shipping prices. You'll find the shipping prices on BabySteals pretty reasonable, especially if you are only ordering one item. They always have flat rate shipping that is shown on the home page, so you know before you ever put the item in your cart exactly what purchasing one item will cost you. Also, BabySteals tells you up front how much it will cost to ship each additional item.
• Three item per style limit. Many of these type websites have a limit on how many items you can purchase. This helps keep the bargains coming and helps protect their site from being abused...i.e. people buying all the stock at the steep discounts and reselling everything on eBay. Thanks for wanting us all to enjoy the bargains, BabySteals!
• Free local pick-up. They are based out of Utah and allow free pickup for locals. Wish I lived in Utah!
• LIGHTNING FAST Shipping! BabySteals.com has become known for their extremely efficient shipping practices. It's not uncommon to place and order on Monday and get it by Wednesday or Thursday of the same week!
• BONUS! Here's the little known link to the BabySteals.com archive! You can search through dozens of leftovers from past daily deals and purchase them. There's almost always something interesting on here. Here's that link: http://www.babysteals.com/dailydeals/archive.php
• An increasing amount of eco-friendly green items offered on BabySteals.com. The quality of BabySteals.com merchandise in my opinion is on the rise. I find more and more fantastic things at razor-sharp deals on this site and the green offerings are on the rise.
• The downside? BabySteals.com has a significant fan base. (Last I checked, almost 10,000 on Facebook. To give you an idea, I am not one of those fans and I check BabySteals every day!) While this is awesome for BabySteals, you do have to be on your toes if you like a product on this site. They have been known to sell out of a product within the first 15 minutes of it appearing on their site. They usually sell out of the best items and colors, etc. rather quickly. So you won't have a lot of time to ponder whether you really are dying for that new AllyZabba blanket or Halo SleepSack. I was kicking myself when I missed out on the Ergo Baby Carrier they had up recently. It was the organic one in a great color for a PHENOMENAL price...the one time I slacked off on checking this site...

BabyEarth GaGa Deals

Not Quite A Traditional Baby Deal Site...But SO COOL!

1. You have the chance for several great deals each day. The only catch is you have to be willing to check back frequently to see what's new with the GaGa Deal. People have found unheard upon bargains with these deals. You just have to catch the right deal at the right time.
2. It's a gamble! You decide how long you want to watch something before you decide to buy. You could see that an item is only at 40% off and decide to wait until it gets up to 50% off. However, the 40% off price was so great that it sells out super fast. Other times, you may gamble on something and the item gets up to 90% off. Some products sell out in the first 30 minutes and others last the entire hour and continue to count down. The latter doesn't happen much though at the prices on this site.
   
   Also worth noting is that you could buy something at 50% off and see that you're getting an awesome deal, but then later see that if you had held out, you could have gotten it for 70% off. Once you put the item in your cart, you are locked into that price, so don't click "buy" until you're absolutely ready to buy. And then buy it fast before it sells out!
3. Great brands! BabyEarth is a very well known website and is known for featuring quality products. So their GaGa deals are usually really super deals on current name brand items.
4. Awesome Deals To Be Had Depending on how fast something sells out, you may see it go quickly for 20% off or get up to 90% off before it sells out.
5. The Downside There is one major downside to this website and that is the shipping cost. Sometimes you may see an absolute steal of a lower priced item as a GaGa steal, for example a small toy or a book. However, the shipping cost for small items is often a deterrent for purchasing the deal. I once found an amazing book as a GaGa steal for less than $1. However, with shipping, I could buy the book on Amazon for the same price. This tends to happen more often than not with smaller priced items. For that reason, the GaGa steals are better on larger ticket items.

EcoBabyBuys.com

Daily Deals on Green Baby Products

1. Non-toxic and eco friendly!What sets this company apart? EcoBabyBuys.com has a mission to find non-toxic, environmentally friendly, fairly traded (and stylish) baby products. Sure wish there were more options for parents out there with these values in the products they sell! Some brands EcoBabyBuys.com has been know to offer at fantastically discounted prices? Bumble, Melissa & Doug, Builti, Play, Bum Cheeks, Under the Nile, Fuzzibunz, Bobux, Itzy Ritzy,
2. Quick Shipping TimesEcoBabyBuys.com generally ships within 2 business days of placing your order. So no need to wait by the mailbox too long.
3. The Eco-Friendly Difference? EcoBabyBuys.com uses recycled packaging materials, boxes and paper as well as efficient printers and soy-based ink. They also encourage consumers to choose USPS shipping as an option, although they do provide other options. The reason? The mailman's already on his way to your house...no one has to make a special trip to deliver your package. You can also choose a paperless invoice. Way to go, EcoBabyBargains!
4. Extra Eco-Friendly Awesome Steals! EcoBabyBuys.com also has some extra products featured on the sidebar of their website in addition to their main baby bargain. This is a nice touch, because it's so frustrating to buy something off of a daily deal site and then see something on that same site the next day that you want and either have to place a second order or forgo the deal because of extra shipping charges. Also, the discounts are steep...most are 50-60% off retail...awesome!
5. The downside? 3 big ones. 1) The EcoBabyBuys website sometimes runs VERY slow. (Reminds me of dial-up days!) Really...I mean S-L-O-W. 2) Also, once you've placed your order you get a generic "your cart is empty" screen, so it's hard to tell if you've placed your order correctly or not. You have, but you don't know it. 3) High shipping. EcoBabyBuys seems to have higher shipping rates than most (they are calculated based on what you get, so it's hard to tell for sure), but it's not always a bargain when you factor in the high shipping rates. Other than these issues, this is such a fantastic site, with truly GREAT products at AMAZING prices.

GreenBabyBargains.com Offers Green Bargains Daily

A Deal Of The Day Website Carrying Exclusive Green Baby Products

• The "green" factor. Let's face it. Our kids are growing up in a world that seems to get scarier by the minute. It's nice to have a company that is dedicated to bringing things to us at a great price that are gentle on our kids and on the environment...and are cute too! One of my favorite features of GreenBabyBargains.com is at the bottom of the page. You will actually find a section called "The Green Factor" which tells you why the product is considered "green". Think of it as educational shopping experience! It really is hard to say no to such great reasoning.
• Great visuals. This site often has multiple sizes or colors of an item, clothing for example. They do a great job of offering different picture icons that you can click on to view the color or style you're thinking about. Plus, they load really fast.
• Great product descriptions. GreenBabyBargains.com usually has good product descriptions of the product that you're thinking about buying so you don't have to go off of their website to research the company and/or product they are featuring that day.
• Bonus bargains! What's better than one bargain at a time? More than one bargain at a time! While GreenBabyBargians.com does indeed function as a traditional DOTD site by featuring one deal at a time, they have a super handy little section where you can click for bonus bargains. These are usually a few leftovers of past deals and you never know how many will be listed or how fast they will sell out.
  Brief update on this feature since I wrote this lens: The "bonus bargains" have not been appearing as frequently as they used to. Some days, they are there and other days, they are not. Sometimes over the weekend they will have a 3 day sale.
• The downside? Green Baby Bargains has taken on new ownership and there have been some bumps in the road. Occasionally they do not have a deal up and their site is blank. Check back in a day or two and there will probably be something else up. However, I will say that the products now haven't been as good as they used to be, although they have been improving over the last couple months. They also often have the same types of products up there...how many teething necklaces can you have really? This used to be one of my "must-check" sites and now it's more of an occasional one for me. I really hope to see the new management grow GreenBabyBargains.com up to the caliber that it used to be. I still think it's worth check though, because every once in a while GreenBabyBargains will have something awesome that you won't want to miss. I've missed a couple of really awesome deals that I would have snagged in a heartbeat if I checked this one more often.

Mamabargains.com Is A One Deal At A Time Bargain Site

Find Great Deals All Day Long At MamaBargains.com

• Multiple products per day. Mamabargains.com is probably the most addictive of them all. Rather than post just one deal a day, mamabargains posts one deal at a time. So depending on the amount they have of any given product, there could be 1 product offered per day or 9...or more! You just have to keep hitting refresh to find out what's next. Some products you may find on Mamabargains include: Fleurville, Lexie Barnes, Uppababy, Baby Star, Easy Walker, Kate Quinn Organics, Beco Baby Carriers, Rileyroos, Kidorable and Svan...and may more!
• Little running "mamas". One of the greatest features of this website is that there are little cartoon preggo mamas carrying their purse and running towards the word "gone". This is a really fun feature to track how fast things are moving and to decide if you have time to think about a purchase or if you should act now to make sure you get that darling blankie that your little DD or DS just has to have. I have to admit, I sometimes hit refresh on products I have no interest in just to see how fast things are going on the site. Even my husband has gotten into mamabargains.com.
• This company has GREAT customer service. They have only been in business for a little over a year and really focus on super friendly customer service.
• Extremely steep discounts. Of all the DOTD sites, you can usually find the best discounts on this site. Everything is 50-80% off retail. So go ahead and splurge on that designer diaper bag! *Note: Here's an update since I wrote this lens. Mamabargains now offers things at 40-80% off, instead of 50-80% off. Occasionally, they get a bigger brand and aren't able to discount it much at all. One time they had a popular, although not super expensive item on their site for only 12% off. What's the point of buying from them at this price, especially after you add shipping? Pretty sad they compromised on this...it was one of the things that made them really stand out from their competition. And even if it's only every once in a while, if your site says that you offer things at 40-80% off, good business practice dictates that you stick to what you advertise you are all about. Still a great site, you can still get super deals, but just pay attention to the discount before you click "buy".
• Good variety. Mamabargains.com has great variety. They have a number of high end items like strollers or designer bedding sets for infants as well as lower end products like clothes, shoes, and toys. And you'll occasionally find an item just for mamas...it behooves you to hit that refresh button!
• Did I mention the "Playground"? This is a forum on anything and everything. There are product reviews, you can request products or you can just hang out with other mamas (and daddys) and talk about your kiddos. This is a great feature if you are thinking about buying something featured on their site. Watch out though...you can literally spend hours on the Playground.
• Local pick-up. I have to admit, I have a wee bit of jealousy for all those Salt-Lake City dwellers. They have free local pickup at the mamabargains.com warehouse.
• The downside. Nobody's perfect...so the downside of mamabargains.com is the shipping. I have almost purchased many items and decided against it once I realized that the shipping for the onesie I had in my cart was almost as much as the onesie itself. However, it just depends on how much the item is worth to you. In most cases, the cost of shipping is still minor compared to how great a deal you are getting. Also, Mamabargains.com used to only offer items at 50-80% off, but sometimes they now offer less of a discount...bummer!

True Cuddles

A Canadian Weekly Deal Site

1. Cuddle Clearance They do have a clearance section where you can have your chance for past "cuddles". However, there is not usually a ton of leftovers on here. Then again, you never know what you will find.
2. More than just a deal site. TrueCuddles.com is more than just a weekly deal site. They have a blog, a resource section and also do reviews and giveaways.
3. TrueCuddles doesn't always offer a weekly deal. More often than not, you'll see a weekly deal on their website. But on some weeks, be prepared to see referrals to other great deals around the web.
4. The Downside? TrueCuddles.com is a little bit hard to navigate. While the weekly deal is featured on the first page, it takes a few clicks to actually get to the page where you put the deal in your cart. Not a biggie, but it can be a little cumbersome. Also, their website is really cute, but there's a lot to look at on there.

RIP To These Baby Sites

This Is the Baby & Kids Daily Deal Graveyard

• MockStarBaby MockStarBaby.com was a quirky alternative baby site...think Pac Sun for babies. Unfortunately for all those baby rockers out there, this site is resting in peace.
• BabyBloop BabyBloop.com was a pretty traditional one deal at a time site...until one of their deals remained up on their website for months. I can only guess what happened to BabyBloop. But if you're looking for them, they are no more. Sorry.
• Tottlers Tottlers.com used to be a daily deal site...then they abandoned the daily deals and became a forum for kid/parenting articles. Now they're gone. They were a great resource and I'm sorry to see them go.