Pricing and Price Matching Policy

Inventive Parent prices the products we sell as the manufacturers ask us to. When we are offered a range, we go to the bottom of that range to save you more money. We have growing families too, and know that you need to stretch your dollars further these days.

Inventive Parent is an authorized retailer for all the products that we carry. Depending on the manufacturer, that can mean more or less. Many manufacturers suggest what their products can be sold for, often setting suggested minimums. A good number of them do not permit prices to go below a certain point, and will terminate their relationship with a retailer who does sell their products for less. Even more prohibit selling their products on Ebay or other auction/discount sites.

At Inventive Parent we work with a large number of new, small companies just starting out. We believe in their products, and want them to grow. We certainly want them to still be in business a few years down the line. We want that for our own business, too. And so we treat our vendors fairly and with respect.

Before we add a product we check around to see if anyone else is carrying it and what they sell it for. Sometimes we find that products are offered as loss leaders (the retailer is willing to take a soaking on the sale of this particular item, actually loosing quite a bit of money with each purchase, hoping that enough other items will be bought that the loss will be turned into a profit). Sometimes we find retailers who claim that the "regular price" is lots more than than their "sale price," encouraging you to buy it now. It really irks us to know that their "sale" price is the manufacturer's suggested price. And sometimes retailers lower their sale price and jack up their shipping fee to make their money back. That's just not honest. We don't play those games.

Sometimes mistakes are made. The price on the product page will be considered correct if there is an error in the shopping cart calculations. As much as we try to prevent them, and correct them as quickly as possible, we are not responsible for typographical, clerical or other unintended errors.

Price Matching Policy