We’re registered at B3 and JC Penney. As others have discovered, the B3 registry is wonderful, as are their employees–no complaints there, and I’d definitely recommend registering there to anyone! The JC Penney registry, however…that’s another matter. In the 7 or 8 months we’ve had the registry, we’ve had to go back three times and make significant changes, due to items being discontinued. Now it has happened again, just three months from the wedding. Luckily, not much has been purchased off that registry yet.
So now we’re considering just closing out that registry, and passing the word around that we’re only registered at B3. I don’t think this should be a problem for our guests; they almost all live in either St Louis or Kansas City, and those who don’t (ie our college friends) are definitely computer literate enough to make an online purchase from the registry.
If we do this, we’ll have to go in and put versions of each item from the Penney’s registry onto our B3 registry, which isn’t *that* big a deal but is still a hassle. Less of a hassle than continuing to screw with the stuff at JC Penney, though!
When we’re in KC next week, we’ll probably close out our Penney’s registry and add a bajillion things to the B3 one…one more thing to do.
Have you had any bad/difficult registry experiences?
We mainly registered at B3, Target, + Sears. Sears was mainly for my DH and was great. With the exception of redeeming out giftcards (buy online, pick up in stores doesn’t work).
Target, like it’s been discussed here are bad with returns without a receipt. You can return up to two items per person (2 wife + 2 husband = 4 total) OR if the items are cheap, up to $10 per item. We had received two towels sets from them and they cost barely over $40, so we got return everything but two wash clothes.
One little tip, OXO products have a specific barcode per store. Which means, if you registered for all of your OXO at one store, and they bought it from another, you can’t return it to where you registered for. I wasn’t aware of this and have since been carrying a sack full of OXO utensils that DH and I have no use for since we have no idea where they came from.