Quinny Jezz frame snapped, trapping daughter - absolutely appalling experience with company
Absolutely appalling experience with them. We bought a new Quinny Jezz from a woman off eBay; it was boxed up, labels enclosed (still have them). She had purchased from Babyvalue. The stroller was used little - essentially bought with air travel in mind as it was easy to fold down and carry.
However.....after just 5 months, and little use, my wife ran into a major problem one day. She needed to take our 2 year old daughter from UK to Dublin for an appointment (a 1 day trip) so she brought the stroller on the flight. Whilst in Dublin, walking through the city on her way back towards the airport, the stroller frame completely snapped, trapping our daughter in the stroller and requiring the assistance of a passer-by to extricate my daughter from the now collapsed stroller. My wife managed, somehow, to get herself, our daughter, her bags, and the collapsed buggy on board a bus to Dublin Airport but was (you can imagine) struggling. I advised her to leave the broken stroller behind and concentrate on looking after what was important - our daughter. The completely broken stroller was left behind in Dublin therefore. However, my wife took pictures.
When my wife returned, I took the matter up with Quinny - and frankly was and am flabbergasted with the attitude. They tried to fob me off to the person on eBay from whom we had purchased and ludicrously offered a repair of the stroller at a fixed price following inspection of the stroller - which clearly is unavailable!
I had to remind them that whilst, yes, we bought from a seller on eBay, the product was brand new and we are talking about a significant issue here with one of their products which might have seriously injured my daughter. Even though the matter appeared to be elevated to a Paul Gilbert, evidently quite senior in the company, this made no difference to the Quinny stance - which seemed to completely lack any kind of concern that a stroller used by very small, vulnerable children could break apart in this way ....and it's not the first time it has happened either, because I copied a link to Mr Gilbert about another parent's practically identical experience!
What I would have expected to see would have been 1) some appropriate level of apology and concern for my child over the failure of their product 2) some indication that they would investigate what had happened in our case (using the photos we gave them) and the other similar case involving the other parent and 3) a willingness to replace (with a safer stroller) the stroller that broke apart in Dublin, because whilst not bought directly from them, ultimately that stroller originated from them.
What we got instead was a case of "nothing to do with me gov". ...Frankly, that is not good enough.
29 March 2018
Unprompted review