What A Rip-Off!

I was browsing online for birthday presents for the girls today. KayCee’s 6 on August 2nd and Ella’s 4 on August 8th. They both love using the camera on my phone so I figured a good present would be a digital camera each if only to stop me from worrying that they’ll put my phone down outside and someone else would walk off with it!

So I checked on the KandCo website. I did the usual thing and went to the toy section then electronics and found the children’s cameras. There was a lovely Hello Kitty one that I knew both girls would adore so I went to check the specifications.
It cost £36 and came with a case. I then noticed it was only a *1.3mp camera.
Now, I’d been looking at adult digital cameras the other day and the cheapest one was £35 and was 9mp.

I was amazed and actually quite annoyed that they could get away with selling a camera at that price, with such poor specifications, just because it has a picture of Hello Kitty on it.
I even sent an email to my husband at work…..well, I had to rant to someone!

Suffice to say, neither of our girls are going to get a Hello Kitty/Disney Princess/other crappy digital camera aimed to make kids want one, even if they don’t know what they are.

I think the thing that annoyed me most is the fact that a lot of people wouldn’t even know to check the specs. My father-in-law wouldn’t know to check because he’s not really into technology. He’d think that it looked nice, the girls would like it so he’d buy it.
Not only that, with it being a recognised brand and selling for £36, you’d expect it to be a lot better than the pathetic 1.3mp that it is.

Anyway, that’s my rant over for today. I shall now go and try to find a good quality, good price digital camera and some hello kitty stickers!**

*EDIT 25/07/11 – I’ve just noticed that I got 2 cameras mixed up. The Hello Kitty is 3mp, not 1.3mp as stated above. I was also looking at a Peppa Pig camera and that was the one that was 1.3mp. I wanted to be fair to the makers of the Hello Kitty camera by posting the error I made, however, 3mp is still not worth paying £36 for when you can get a 9mp camera for less

**Hello Kitty stickers idea courtesy of my wonderful husband!!