Butterfly status update
November 1st, 2011 Filed under Beco Butterfly, Beco Gemini, Item In Stock, baby carriers, beco butterfly 2, new product arrivals, sale.
We are getting many questions about the Beco Carrier availability. Here is the latest information (November 1 2011 update):
last season’s colors of Beco Butterflies are now on sale – $125 each! The original Beco Butterfly is retired and was replaced with version “Beco Butterfly 2” with some noteworthy design changes! We have 16 organic colors in stock – solid black and brown and the new Fall 2011 prints : Niko, Nova, Foxie, Robots, Sienna, Cars, and Owls. All the spring/summer colors are now discontinued and sale price : Ginger, Luna, Lucas, Paige, Natalie, and Tyler. There are summer season limited editions available for $149 $139, these are Ever and Duke. The spring/summer colors will sell out before long and no more will be made – there are only have a couple left in stock for each color and Becos move extra fast at sale prices, so we will run out before long! The most recent choices before that for the Butterfly are Duke and Melody colors, which sell for a bit more than the standard carrier cost. Because the baby carriers are over $100, they all ship free the same day or next day after you order them. The Butterfly carrier is not being discontinued – the new Gemini is a quite different product and these are selling side-by-side. Neither model is a replacement for the other kind. The first collection of pictures here are all Butterfly models – there are many more colors available on the butterfly than the gemini. Scroll down past these pictures to hear more about the Gemini carriers.
In fall of 2011 Beco unveiled the Gemini carrier – Organic – colors are black, brown, Nova, Foxie, Sienna, Robots, Cars, and Owls. For Geminis, the discontinued colors are almost gone! Only one unit left in each color, and they are Ginger, Luna, and Carnival. Please note that the old colors have the print on the outside panel, much like the Butterfly does, while the new October 2011 Gemini carriers are “Gemini Insider” version, meaning that the print fabric is on the inside of the carrier body, on the fabric that is touching the baby, and so the print only shows when you have folded down the top of the carrier body or have folded in the leg opening area. The main carrier body looks like a solid color, with contrasting piping, even when you buy a print version.
Also, please note that our Lucas Geminis were produced in summer 2011, this set of Lucas Geminis are paired with espresso brown straps. Before this summer, Beco made Lucas print paired with khaki tan straps, but this combination is long gone.
discontinued colors of the Gemini are on sale for at only $105 each. The Geminis are listed in the same section of the website as the Butterfly, just scroll down to order the Gemini carriers. This is Beco’s new 4-position carrier, it does front, back, side, and forward-facing-outward. No infant insert, and price is $10 less than the Beco Butterfly. It is a quite different carrier, and the Butterfly is NOT discontinued. Call or email us if you want help figuring out which carrier would suit you best. We have blogged specifically about Butterfly vs Gemini at this link.
The automatic free shipping is FedEx ground. There is a new map on our policies page for delivery speed with Fedex ground service. You may find you live close enough to get overnight or 2nd day service at the Ground price.
Everybody is curious about how the Beco fabric prints look close up and in the sunlight, so we blog these whenever we can. Check the sidebar for the “butterfly photos” section. Our homemade close-up outdoor shots of Isabella and Olivia are here. Extra images of Abby Sara and Natalie are here. Our shots of the discontinued Scooters Becos are here. When we still had them on hand, we took photos of our custom-edition Aubrey, Ethan, and Emma – especially useful because you can clearly see the words in the popular Emma print. The currently available Paige color has extra photos here. The Butterfly 2.0 blog thread on colors and stocking is here.
Many people ask about the sold out colors – We have been with Beco since 2006, well before there was such thing as “A Beco Butterfly” and we do still get phone calls asking for colors that came and went long ago. I can confirm that the following colors are discontinued and not being made any more: Duo organic owls in sand, sky blue, or rust orange. Aiden, Andrew, Anaya, Alison, Avery, Argyle Deer, Carnival, Ethan, Grace, Jacob, Joey, Hannah, Lauren, Panthers, Pony Express, Lenka, River, Ryan, Sara, Scooters, Trinity, Zoye. That lovely photo above with the lady holding a coffee mug is wearing the Joshua print from an especially small production run from 2008. Also sold out long ago are the Tender Cargo Exclusive fabrics : custom-made Abby, Mia, Audrey, Olivia and Emma.
