Have Glider? Will Travel.

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Posted by Rebecca, April 19th, 2012

Yesterday, Mike spilled the beans that we were able to hunt down the glider we were unable to buy on Monday. He also spilled the beans that he was born in Staten Island. That’s another story for another day, but I guess good things come from Staten Island!

How did we get it? Well, after I was slightly depressed after returning from Babies R Us on Monday (and stopping for a hot fudge sundae to lessen the pain), we came home and googled to see if we could find the glider elsewhere. We also searched for alternatives and really could not find anything for less than $1,000. I emailed the manufacturer, Klaussner, asking if the glider was sold elsewhere. We then went to bed.

On Tuesday I woke up feeling less defeated and more determined. If our local Babies R Us claimed they just sold the floor model on Saturday, there had to be more floor models somewhere! One of the perks of living sandwiched between New York City and Philly is that there is no shortage of natural resources retail centers.

These were our options within 100 mile radius, actually there were probably even more but I cropped the image. I did what any desperate person would do and I started calling stores.

I literally called about 10 stores that told me they had sold their floor models. I was feeling defeated again, especially when one store immediately responded with “Oh no! That’s been gone for a LONG time!” Then I called one store that never even had the floor model, but the woman was extremely helpful and checked what stores were showing that they had 1 in stock in the system. First she searched NJ, which I had already called both of the stores that supposedly had it. So I asked her to check Pennsylvania. Not a single store in the whole state had one. Then I asked for NY and got a nice little list that looked something like this….

  1. Staten Island
  2. Brooklyn
  3. Union Square
  4. Long Island
  5. Upstate somewhere

I figured I’d start with good ol’ Staten Island, since it’s really not that far from NJ. In fact, I grew up right across the bay from Staten Island and I thought that it was some sort of distant land. My childhood dream was to make it to the other side. I guess dreams come true?

I called and nearly died when the guy very casually told me that yeah, they had that. I asked if I could have it reserved for me and his response was, “you want the floor model??” So I told him that the chair is no longer in stock and all that is left is the floor model. He looked it up and verified that I was right, then told me that he had to talk to his manager to see if they could sell it. He called me back about 5 minutes later and told me that the manager said he could sell it. This whole part of the story confirmed what the employee from our initial visit to Babies R Us told us– that they have no idea when things are going out of stock. I guess this happened at a lot of stores and since people weren’t able to order the chair, they just took the floor model. They said they would hold it for me for 24 hours.

So, I took my insanely swollen feet across the Outerbridge on Tuesday.

Yeah those flip flops aren’t usually tight… I actually have quite narrow feet in my usual life.

When we got to Babies R Us, I explained that I was buying the glider they were holding for me and I had the same exact conversation with the manager on duty that I had on the phone. He questioned buying the floor model and I told him that it’s no longer in stock. He looked it up, confirmed that I was right, then said I could take it. But wait! It’s a floor model! Don’t I get a discount? He told me no….

So I gave puppy eyes and said that the ottoman had a spot on it (which it did), so he gave me a 20% off coupon and allowed me to use it for a furniture item. Woohooo! This was all great and better than I thought I’d be able to do, until I realized something. THE PRICES ARE HIGHER IN NY!

That 20% off exactly offset the price hike and the additional tax so that we ended up paying the full NJ price. I was annoyed for a minute, but I didn’t want to be too annoyed because I didn’t want to give up my glider. So I just swallowed my pride and paid full price for a damn floor model. Granted, it’s in perfect condition, but I didn’t even want to pay full price for a brand new glider. But that mentality is what got me in this position in the first place and after thinking I may not even get the glider at all, I’ll take it at full price!!

Thankfully, it fit in our small SUV. After driving all the way to Staten Island, I was afraid it wouldn’t fit.

When we got home, Mike was able to get it up the stairs all by himself. It’s really not a big chair, so it was nice to be able to get it in the room just 24 hours after I thought I wouldn’t even have a glider. However, when we put it in the corner that we planned on, it did not look right.

The crib dwarfs the chair.

The dresser dwarfs the chair.

So we had to rearrange everything tonight. We played with a few configurations…

Dresser on opposite wall, which I liked a lot.

Crib caddy cornered? Nah.

Crib straight with chair back facing door? Just okay.

Chair by window? LIKE!

But then that meant the dresser had to be moved back where it was originally to keep things balanced…

The crib was also re-centered on the accent wall and we were happy!

The chair is slightly in front of the closet, but there’s still plenty of room to get in and out of there.

We can also play with it more once we have the closet system in and some curtains up. This configuration leaves lots of open floor and wall space. Warning: Photo bombing cat ahead.

I want to get some sort of small storage to put next to the glider to use for books and toys, which will work now because we have a nice empty wall to use.

Mowie approves of the new location with nice view…

It’s seriously insane how small this room got with furniture in it! I always imagined that this room would be massive for a baby, but I guess not.

I feel 100x better now that we have the glider. Even if I had to travel to Staten Island and pay full price, it is still much less expensive than similar styles of gliders. And it looks great with the bedding, though I can’t show you those pictures yet…

How’s that for a happy ending? 🙂

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15 Responses to “Have Glider? Will Travel.”

  1. So wait – are you both from Staten Island? It really is a small world!

  2. Ainhoa says:

    Yay! It looks great! Too bad you had to pay full price though. I don’t understand why stores don’t have a policy on the exact discount of floor models.

  3. Ashley says:

    I like those kind of cat bombs!

  4. Tawny says:

    I love that glider and I am sad that they will no longer stock it. Oh well, I am sure after all the popularity over it on the internet they will have something similar when we finally get around to having a baby!

    Do you ever check out Miz Booshay? She has been featured on Pioneer Woman and she did a newborn shoot using that glider and I instantly recognized it from your blog!

  5. I love that chair. I can see why you wanted it. Glad it worked out!

  6. The glider is beautiful! And it looks so great in the baby’s nursery! I’m so glad you found it! 🙂

  7. Lisa says:

    I am in the midst of searching the whole world for this glider myself — also live in NJ, and also cannot find it anywhere. I was at Babies-r-Us in East Hanover, NJ in April (before I decided I needed this) and they had the floor model, but I just called them and they said they don’t have it. I’m thinking of going over there anyway because what do I have to lose?

    Any tips on where there might be other gliders hiding out somewhere???

    • Rebecca says:

      Gah, I feel your pain!!! When I was looking, all of NJ and PA were out. They gave me a list of 5 NY stores that miiight have had the floor model left. I took the one in Staten Island, but at the time there was one each in Manhattan, Long Island, Brooklyn and College Point, I believe. I’d try calling one of those and asking if they have it, if you’re willing to travel a little. If they don’t have it, ask them if they can look up who does still have it to point you in the right direction!

      I never heard back from the manufacturer, so I can’t help you there 🙁

  8. Lisa says:

    Found one! Don’t want to jinx it by saying where, but hopefully by Saturday we’ll have it in our nursery.

  9. emma says:

    I love that glider and I am sad that they will no longer stock it. Oh well, I am sure after all the popularity over it on the internet they will have something similar when we finally get around to having a baby!Chania car rental

  10. lisa says:

    h well, I am sure after all the popularity over it on the internet they will have something similar when we finally get around to having a baby!bus hire Helsinki

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