Lindam Harness and Reins - WARNING, RANT!!!

[amynorange]

Now I have the Lindam child safety gate to keep Drake off the stairs and its absolutely brill (when I first got it even my parents and in-laws couldn't figure out how to open it! ) I was really impressed with it. So with that in mind, I wanted to buy some reins for Drake as he is starting walking and think it would benefit him to get some more practice out and about and stuff. I was in town today and bought some Lindam reins from Argos (thinking they are a great make of baby safety stuff) and they are absolute TOSH! The size of them are absolutely ridiculous! The sizing on them says from 6months - 4yrs and that is absolute nonsense! You would struggle getting them round a doll never mind a 4yr old! Now my son is coming up to 17months, he is not a big baby, tall yes, but not even chubby really and it ONLY JUST fastens! It can not be comfortable at all as I could only just get a finger under it. Now unless I was doing it wrong which Im pretty much 100% sure that I wasn't as I followed the instructions and its basically self explanatory (and my future MIL thought exactly the same as me) then I can't see how anyone could use them! So I'm going to try and take them back and get my money back, thats if they will do that because its in one of those daft packages where you have no choice but to rip it to get it open. Anyone else bought these and found it to be the same as me? Did you manage to get your money back or an exchange or something? Has anyone actually managed to use them perfectly fine? If so...how?! Please explain would love to hear as I know its just gonna be a massive faff trying to get it sorted and I can not figure out for the life of me how they could work!



Anyway if you managed to get to the end of this, well done and I'm sorry but just needed to rant and also wanted to hear others experiences with these.

TIA

 

[Sazzoire]

Take them back hun. I bought some reins about 2 weeks ago and binned the package and receipt straight away (from Argos).... today was the 1st time that I have tried to use them and had the same experience as you. Absolute cack!!

Anyway I took them back to Argos and explained that I don't have the packaging or receipt and the lady got the manager... he came over and I was just about to explain my story again and there was no need as he already knew my problem from previous customers..... He said that he had reported the problem to Lindham and still nothing has been done. He gave me a full refund onto a gift card, no problem...

Take em back hun xx

 

[amynorange]

Thanks for your input, thats brill! Hopefully the staff at the Argos I went to will be just as understanding as the staff at yours! I will certainly be taking them back and hopefully be able to get some more, though I don't think that they had many more other reins in :/
Did you get a different set of reins? If so which ones? I still can't believe how small they were!

 

[Sazzoire]

No, they don't do any others.... I'm thinking about a little backpack (ladybird) from Ebay with a long strap... looks way more comfy and I've see babes alot older than mine in them.

xx

 

[pinktaffy]

i got them ones. i forgot my rains one day while we was out and my lo was running around wild and i said 2 my sister oh ill just pop into argos get somes raiens she said ok hun. went in got them opend them and they didnt even fit around her waist she is by no meens a big toddler shes still in 9-12 and 12-18 cloths lol. i took them straight back and she was being funny about it at the till so i said u put them on her then lol. she said oh there has 2 be away 2 get them bigger it says up till 4 years.
after 15 mins of her faffing she gave me my money back and a 5 pound gift voucher lol.

so then i got the rains with a back pack they fitted and was like right these r gr8 loves these got lo home and she was full of scraches of them were the backpack was riseing and scrached all her face. the back pack was to big i took them back to a different argos the next day got my money back.

so your not alone the argos rains r rubbish.

 

[Siyren]

we have a pair of boots own ones, love them! plenty of growing space, even though she's not far off being fine without them- we only use them if we're going somewhere crowded now.
x

 

[CormacksGirl]

I got the Lindam ones for Adam from Argos and they're fine! He's 22 months now and he still has plenty room in them even with a thick coat on.View attachment 319425 This is the best pic I have he was 14 months in this pick

 

[Aunty E]

Mine are from Mothercare and are massive, Imogen just slips out of them. Grrr.

 

[amynorange]

No, they don't do any others.... I'm thinking about a little backpack (ladybird) from Ebay with a long strap... looks way more comfy and I've see babes alot older than mine in them.

xx

Funnily enough I was looking at the backpack reins that they had in argos when I went today with my dad when I got the Lindham ones and my dad talked me out of them lol! Think I might consider them now or something similar. I didn't realise it was so difficult buying some reins!
Though with what pinktaffy said about them scratching all her daughters face, I'm really not sure about those either!

i got them ones. i forgot my rains one day while we was out and my lo was running around wild and i said 2 my sister oh ill just pop into argos get somes raiens she said ok hun. went in got them opend them and they didnt even fit around her waist she is by no meens a big toddler shes still in 9-12 and 12-18 cloths lol. i took them straight back and she was being funny about it at the till so i said u put them on her then lol. she said oh there has 2 be away 2 get them bigger it says up till 4 years.
after 15 mins of her faffing she gave me my money back and a 5 pound gift voucher lol.

so then i got the rains with a back pack they fitted and was like right these r gr8 loves these got lo home and she was full of scraches of them were the backpack was riseing and scrached all her face. the back pack was to big i took them back to a different argos the next day got my money back.

so your not alone the argos rains r rubbish.

It seems the reins that Argos sells certainly are rubbish! Did you end up buying some more from a different place? If so were they any good and where did you get them from. Like I said above I didn't realise it would be so difficult to buy reins! If you did end up getting some more did you get the reins with a back pack? I did think this was a really good idea, for putting snacks and juice in and things but with you saying about it scratching your daughters face, this has put me off again! Hope your LO was ok afterwards and she wasn't too badly scratched, but lets face it they shouldn't have even done that to her!

I got the Lindam ones for Adam from Argos and they're fine! He's 22 months now and he still has plenty room in them even with a thick coat on.View attachment 319425 This is the best pic I have he was 14 months in this pick

Thank you for sharing that lovely pic! Such a cutie! But I have absolutely no idea how they fit him! In the pic there he looks only slightly smaller than Drake and the reins do look plenty big enough for him! I am starting to think that there are some dodgy batches of them out there or something and it was Argos that seemed to get them all! Because I mean that coat he has on looks lovely and warm and thick and when I tried them on Drake this afternoon he only had a thin jumper on and honestly I could only just get my finger underneath them!

I just hope I can find some out there somewhere lol Please share if any of you managed to find some decent fitting ones and where you managed to get them from and how much and stuff Would be very much appreciated!
Thanks again!

 

[amynorange]

Mine are from Mothercare and are massive, Imogen just slips out of them. Grrr.

Looks like your having the opposite problem to me! While its quite cold why don't you put her plenty of layers on or just a nice big thick coat, might help her not slip out of them so much? Hopefully then when it starts getting warmer she will have grown some and they should fit her better?
Oh why can't they just make sensible sized fitting reins! I wouldn't have thought it would be that difficult! Especially if its what they do!!!

 

[Jchihuahua]

we have a pair of boots own ones, love them! plenty of growing space, even though she's not far off being fine without them- we only use them if we're going somewhere crowded now.
x

We have these too and recommend them.

 

[Windmills]

I've got LittleLife ones, they're so much better than others I've tried. Daisy is a full scale lunatic and I spend my day chasing her round shops or out the path of oncoming traffic so they're a god send. She swings off the ones with the rein attached to either side too so the LittleLife ones solve that problem too
https://m.mothercare.com/mt/www.mot...&pf_rd_i=0&pf_rd_p=231490887&pf_rd_s=center-7
It fits her wipes, a nappy, cup and frees up the space in my own bag too. I could actually go on about it ALL day!

 

[SophiasMummy]

Get a littlelife backpack they are great, my LO wore her rains once and hated them so bought her a littlelife backpack and she loves it she will even walk around the house with it on. My LOs tiny but they adjust alot so they would easily fit any toddler xx

 

[binxyboo]

I have a pair of reins from Asda.
They are great - fit nicely and were reasonably priced.

 

[babydevil1989]

we have the lindam ones from argos and they fit toby fine still and hes 2! maybe you just have a bad batch take them back im sure they will do something x

 

[tu123]

Oh great! I bough these. Still unopened though. Lillian is 36lbs. Sounds like they will be useless

 

[pinktaffy]

i got more from mothercare. they sell alot of types online backpack ones aswell.

 

[Sazzoire]

when I spoke to the manager in argos he did say that the Lindham ones were a 'bad batch', so I'm not surprised that some are ok... pot luck I suppose?

xx

 

[sleeping bubs]

I did look at those ones in Argos but in the end we brought a littlelife packpack but it is too big for him I have to put the interlocking rings on the straps to stop the bag falling down. But I am so glade we got one for him

 

[amynorange]

]I've got LittleLife ones, they're so much better than others I've tried.[/B] Daisy is a full scale lunatic and I spend my day chasing her round shops or out the path of oncoming traffic so they're a god send. She swings off the ones with the rein attached to either side too so the LittleLife ones solve that problem too
https://m.mothercare.com/mt/www.mot...&pf_rd_i=0&pf_rd_p=231490887&pf_rd_s=center-7
It fits her wipes, a nappy, cup and frees up the space in my own bag too. I could actually go on about it ALL day!

Thank you for your input and feel free to go on about the little life backpacks it seems that the more info I could get from others who have them the better! Pro's and cons (if there are any!) Good to know that LO can't swing off the backpacks, I hadn't even thought of that

Get a littlelife backpack they are great, my LO wore her rains once and hated them so bought her a littlelife backpack and she loves it she will even walk around the house with it on. My LOs tiny but they adjust alot so they would easily fit any toddler xx

It seems the littlelife backpacks are really highly recommended from loads of people on here! I really wish I had just bought one of them in the first place!

I have a pair of reins from Asda.
They are great - fit nicely and were reasonably priced.

I didn't even realise that ASDA did reins! Be worth keeping that in mind, so thank you!

we have the lindam ones from argos and they fit toby fine still and hes 2! maybe you just have a bad batch take them back im sure they will do something x

I think they were a bad batch too. They should have recalled the batch number from all the stores they got sent to, because they really are unusable!

Oh great! I bough these. Still unopened though. Lillian is 36lbs. Sounds like they will be useless

Maybe check them first before you send them back as I think there might just be a really bad batch out there as its like 50/50 people saying they are useless and the others saying they fit fine! Check and see and please let us know if you had the same problem too! Hopefully you won't have though! Its just a faff that everyone could do without!

when I spoke to the manager in argos he did say that the Lindham ones were a 'bad batch', so I'm not surprised that some are ok... pot luck I suppose?

xx

I'm thinking that too! It's a shame, because Lindham so seem to be a good make for child safety things. As I said in my original post I have the Lindham child gate and its great really secure!

Thank you all so much for all of your replies and pictures too! Be interesting to hear more of your experiences.