What baby items wouldn't you buy used?

[howardcoombs]

Car seat I agree, you wouldn't know if it had been in an accident or been dropped, so might be unsafe.

Car seats (unlike cars) do not have internal hidden parts. If one has been in an accident it will be quite easy to see the damage associated with it.

As for getting dropped, that wont hurt it much. Think about:
a) airline baggage handlers and how your carseat gets shuffled along and dropped
b) delivery people who actually transported the car seat along. They regularly throw stuff around. Car seats are designed to widthstand such minor impacts.

HC