Infants and young children's home appliances prices outrageous quality spectrum

Warm milk devices, sterilizers, electric milk powder mixers, food conditioners, etc.. In the major shopping sites, under the name of "for infants and young children," the name of small household appliances for sale is very popular and popular with young parents. However, these seemingly professional and safe small household appliances for infants and young children are notoriously expensive, often costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Actually, many of them are unreliable: due to the lack of corresponding industry standards, some even the most basic product quality, Safety and after-sales service cannot be guaranteed.

Baby Home Appliances Online Sale

There is still a period of time before the baby is born, and the “quasi-mother” millet has started to purchase baby supplies on the Internet. Warm milk device, bottle sterilizer, hair clipper, electric milk powder mixer, baby food conditioner... In Xiaomi’s Taobao shopping cart, the reporter noted that in addition to traditional baby products such as diapers and baby bottles, there are various Samples of small household appliances "for infants and young children", the initial estimate of no less than a dozen, the cumulative cost of two or three thousand dollars. "Actually, I don't know that these things don't work, but since everyone buys them, and they're so popular with moms and dads, it's a good idea to use them," said Xiaomi.

How popular are infant and small appliances? In the Taobao search page, the reporter tried to enter the word “baby hair clipper” and found more than 20,000 related products. One of the baby hair clippers with a price of 109 yuan was sold in more than 4,000 pieces in the latest month. Exceeded most of the online sales of ordinary home appliances. After inputting keywords such as “baby” and “home appliances,” related products have been searched for, ranging from electric milk mixers, warm water heaters, music toilets, to bottle sterilizers, baby food processors, and baby carriers. Mosquitoes and more.

The quality is difficult to guarantee the price is very outrageous
It is worth noting that these small and medium-sized household appliances that are popular on the Internet are small in size and simple in function, but their prices are generally high. The reporters found that the same is a small household appliance, as long as the label "for infants and young children", the value immediately went up a large part. Take a bottle sterilizer that is popular on the Internet as an example. The online price is as high as 400 yuan, and a generic brand sterilization pot using the same principle can be purchased for only one or two hundred yuan.

So, are these small home appliance products sold under the banner of “for infants and young children”? After random interviews with dozens of young mothers, the reporter found that although the value of small home appliances for infants and young children is generally unaffordable, in fact, many are not reliable. Not only are they not practical, and some do not even have the most basic quality guarantees. Miss Zhang Zhang told reporters that from the birth of the baby to the present, she has bought more than a dozen kinds of infant appliances on the Internet, resulting in the actual use of few. “The nose-bubblers bought from tens of dollars will cry when one touches the baby’s nose. The steamer is even more terrible. I don’t know what material is used to make it. Do not dare to use the baby, buy it directly after throwing aside." Miss Zhang said.

“Although the domestic appliance market for infants and young children is developing rapidly, it is still in its infancy. The relevant industry standards are lacking and the barriers to entry are low, resulting in a mixed market and shoddy products. Consumers’ rights and interests are difficult to guarantee.” According to industry sources, many are online Hot and expensive infant and small household electrical appliances are actually from small businesses and even family workshops. If consumers purchase such products, once they have problems, they will find no place to look for them.

The reporter learned that there are currently only two standards concerning children in China: one is the toy safety standard, and the other is the standard for infant and toddler clothing. This piece of household appliances, there is no relevant national standards, marked with "baby and children" is just a business speculation means.