BabyPlays: A Netflix for childrens toys
Toys are an important part of being a child. When we get older they become shinier and more expensive, but for many, they're fun to play with for a short time and we lose interest.
To help curb the potential costs and storage required, there's BabyPlays, a service that approaches toy enjoyment in a similar fashion to Netflix. BabyPlays is a subscription service that lets you pick what toys you want delivered to your house each month. Each of the plans lets you receive a different amount of toys. There are no late fees, and when you want a new ones shipped out you simply pack up the old ones and send them in.
In case you were wondering, the toys are sterilized between rentals. Also, if your little one is in love with the toy and you feel like buying it permanently you can do so for 20 percent of its cost.
See also: Swaggle, which lets parents swap and loan out used toys to one another.
Josh Lowensohn is an associate editor for Webware.com, CNET's blog about cool and otherwise useful Web applications and services. If you've found a site you'd like profiled, shoot him an e-mail. E-mail Josh.
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My tip if you're thinking about it is to get toys you don't think are going to break ;)
This is kind of rude (stupid etc) ........ specially when they want you to enroll and pay in next few minutes. They should offer customer a choice rather then shipping spoiled toys back to customer. Why not offer free recycling / pay 10 -20% of toys value.