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Published: Sun, 30 Nov 2008
Description: Budget and second-hand toys can be dangerous
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" Facts while if you didn't it. EBay and other on line or secondhand outlets for presence in toys this year you're not alone. The economy has many people looking for ways to stretch their holiday dollar however. Tor is not purchase in the store can be pretty dangerous if you don't know what to look for. -- To safety tips. From the US Consumer Product Safety Commission -- fashion. -- first of all if you're shopping online and some of these reselling outlets online. Other other web sites. What you need to be concerned about."
" With a CPSC is very good at and very successful at getting recalled toys out of retail stores getting out of consumers' homes is much more difficult. So whether you're a buyer or seller you have equal responsibility to know whether or not your -- Has been recalled from the market."
" And we're looking at a couple of examples here that we brought out we're not singling these companies out per say but this is stuff that you could say. I could see on some of these web sites and why why does this tell us about these."
" Who picked these because they may actually have some definite resale value. That they are very attractive to kids but all of these have been recalled. And they have true defects dispute are. Is actually redesigning can be found in the retail market but if you put it online. You should know whether it was one that was recall. Does Helen recalled for various reasons that well this was recalled because of a laceration hazard kids would jump off a bit and then this would hit them in the back. And hurt their Achilles tendon it's been redesigned. And so what as a buyer you need to know. Are you buying the recalled toy where the redesigned -- there's a lot of magnets out on the market toys with magnets. We recalled a million of them example that we have here. Kids swallow it and you have a little and you now they put everything and they have now single thing and it's not so much one but it's multiple they can come together inside their body and really give them some very serious injuries so what are the things that that parents should know. A when they're shopping for towards. Well whether it's online whether it's in -- retail store. No your child. Be a label reader and read and heed the warnings they are age -- for a reason. I have prodigy you have prodigy -- we all think that they are. But those age rating there -- where they're -- for a reason and so make sure you buy them right -- with the right skill. And the right interest level for your child and after."
" Everything that we've seen about lead paint in toys from China and all those concerns."
" Is that something that should be on people's minds this on this toys. CPSC's jurisdiction. They have been scrutinized they have been inspected. It doesn't mean that there aren't going out there that may have a -- fact. But they're one of the safest products on the market OK Julie thank you very much he'll be."
" Hunting for -- soon thanks."
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