To ask where have all trampolines gone?

[EveningCoffee]

Daughter's birthday is coming up, she asked for one since we can't go anywhere. Every single website I have looked at don't have any in stock! I mean decent size ones, not the little one with a handle! Only available ones are expensive, not paying 600 quid for a bloody trampoline. People are really buying them at the moment? I thought everyone is obsessed with toilet paper and soap now?

Outdoor play equipment has had a real boost due to lockdown. Logical really.

I know of at least 2 people who ordered them for their children as soon as lockdown was announced.

Have you tried Gumtree... few on there. Depends where you are but good luck.

Of course people are buying them, when you can't go anywhere apart from your garden its a no brainer

Yes I ordered one before lock down - I’m not surprised they’re out of stock. Plus of course there might be manufacturing or supply issues.

I got ours from Smyths and they do say they’ll be back in stock next week so fingers crossed!

I ordered a slide for DD, took me days to find one! Then it took about 2 weeks to eventually come

They're in the gardens round here, they've sprouted everywhere like mushrooms in the last 2 weeks! I think it's a contained way of getting kids to let off steam so they're selling fast...

Delivery drivers aren't doing 2 person deliveries at the moment. From what I remember, the boxes ours came in were really heavy.

An Argos delivery driver that frequents my petrol station told me today that they've been flying out, she delivered around 20 of them yesterday.

I assumed that majority of people with the garden already had one and we were the odd ones who don't. How silly of me. I was already imagining how I will be jumping on it too. Oh well, quite disappointing, will keep looking.

EveningCoffee I have 1 to get rid of if you want to collect it. Not used much at all. West London.

to hell hopefully! Biggest and most dangerous annoyance ever.

"A study by RoSPA, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and Oxford University Hospitals Trust estimates that 13,000 trampolining injuries are treated in English accident and emergency departments every year, at an annual cost to the NHS of £1.5million. Almost three quarters of the trampoline injuries in the study occurred in a home environment as they date from a period before the prevalence of commercial trampoline parks".

Try Asda. We have the 10ft 100kg weight limit one. 4 years use so far, a godsend. Best £100 I've ever spent.

@OMFL
There might be a problem with collection. I am in Scotland.

Amazon have them.

I'd think twice about a trampoline at the moment. A&E is the last place you want to be visiting...

Had the same issue trying to buy a slide- Great minds

Yes amazon have a lot of them. We bought ours from smyths toys 2 years ago for my 4 children

We had to self isolate a week before lockdown... we bought one then as we were pretty sure we’d be at home for the foreseeable!

We bought one for our children for Xmas but have only put it up since lockdown due to the weather turning good. I'm sure my friend said she got hers from amazon recently. However as it's a non essential item it may take longer to arrive

My sister has dismantled her trampoline as statistically there are so many accidents on them. Not a good time for an accident.

We nearly bought one a few weeks ago but ruled it out on the risk of injury for smallest child.

My sister is a paediatric orthopaedic specialist. She says the number of kids coming into her dept with serious fractures has risen by over a third in the last five years; almost all of them trampoline injuries. I've also seen several posts on FB and Twitter asking people not to buy or use them at the moment because the NHS simply cannot cope and fracture clinics etc are unable to run.

Do you want your child sitting in A&E at the moment? Do you want them to have a bone that needs resetting surgically? Do you want to run the risk that they won't be able to have that surgery because hospitals are unable to operate in the usual way? Because that's the point we're getting to.

Seriously. Just don't.

The plum website has loads of trampolines in stock for less than £200, slight delay to delivery but they have them at least and they're decent

Ok I see a few comments here about injuries and safety, I am starting to have second thoughts about getting one. Shouldn't a safety net add security and prevent kids from falling over? I wouldn't buy a trampoline without it.