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Oct 6
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NEW ITEMS
Bo Bébé: 514-858-6336
9540 St Laurent, Montréal, QC H2N 1R1
This is where we bought our bedding. They really had the best service, well the girl that served us was super nice. They had the lowest prices on bedding, although it was a special they were having and I don’t know when it will end. They manufacter (a sister company) all the bedding and also have available most of the fabric for seperate purchase. They had a few (5-6) cribs, not the one we wanted though, at average prices.
Bébé Dépôt Plus: 514-270-8845
1104, rue Saint-Zotique Est, Montréal, QC H2S 1N3
This store was OK, it had about 8-9 models of cribs and a little more in bedding selection. Their prices were OK. The service was basic, not very amicable.
Bébé Plus: 514-271-5200
6235,rue Saint-Hubert, Montréal, QC H2S 2L9
This place actually has 3 floors full of different models of cribs and stuff. This place is huge. But the prices start from 180$ (aluminum or very shaky crib) to at least 800-900$ a piece. So it’s really a question of what your budget looks like. This is actually the place we first found our crib. They have a delivery time of 6-8 weeks + 3 weeks for construction this july. Don’t get pushed around into buying too fast though. If you have a bassinet or whatever they’re called for the first few weeks, you don’t really need your crib the instant the baby pops out. They we’re a little pushy on the delivery time thing, buy now or you won’t have your crib on time (blah, blah).
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USED & NEW
9 mois plus tard: 514-948-3666
5850, rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, QC H2S 3L4
We hated the sales people here, all very fancy french from France types. But they did have 10$ less on the crib we had found elsewhere and have some in stock, which wasn’t the case elsewhere. So, we put aside service quality over price & availability on this one.
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USED
Le grenier de bébé: (514) 728-5517
3892, Dandurand Montréal, QC H1X 1P4
The boutique finds items at different garage sales, looks them over for safety standards and re-sales them. I don’t think their primary objective is to make money, I think it’s to make it easier to buy ised items, without going to every garage sale out there. Their cribs are supposed to be up to standards, they don’t take any more than 10 years old. The sales lady was quite nice, actually let me have a hat at a lower price (was already only 2$) because I only had 1.75$ in change on me. That was very considerate of her.
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CUSTOM ITEMS
Meubles les petits mousses: 450-681-0576
1629, autoroute Laval Ouest, Chomedey, QC H7L 3W3
They had 8 models, the lowest priced was 229$ I think, they too could finish any of them in about 10 different finishes. But the lowest priced one didn’t really fit our style and then the next price level was 305$. The guy there was nice and answered all my questions.
Aug 9
For cloth diapering in Montreal, we visited “la mère hélène” which gave us superb service & information and had good prices on quality items.
La mère hélène
Adress: 7577A Edouard, Ville LaSalle, Qc H8P 1S6
Phone: (514) 368-2959 /1-800-659-2959
Website: merehelene.com