Would you use an independent personal shopper to support you in purchasing first baby goods?

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(This is not market reasearch) I am a mother of two and after supporting pregnant friends in choosing different baby products I wondered if anyone would pay for this as a service. I understand that buying baby goods is an expensive business and would therefore imagine I would be aiming my service at busy career women. My service would include informed, unbiased support without the hard sell.

I know that John Lewis already do this, in the back of their Nursery catalogue they say you (or other family) can have up to 2 hours going around their store with an assistant looking into all the pros and cons of their stuff.

I wouldn't. I'd sooner ask people I know for recommendations of products and compare specifications etc on the internet. However I already have a lot of the stuff, but doubt I would have wanted a personal shopper for when I bought all that before having LO. I think it'd be a nice thing to do with OH or my mum but not with a stranger.

Aha, I understand your concept better now, but I still think that asking people to pay for the kind of informed, unbiased support that you can get for free on MN might be a bit... um... well, nonviable.

I'd encourage you to stay on MN in a personal capacity, hang out on Products and become a guru - there are some pushchair junkies who might benefit from your knowledge

no, probably not. I think that buying baby stuff is quite personal and most people want to find stuff themselves

It would probably better if you didn't charge but charged businesses to get you to promote their product