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WASHINGTON — If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.
The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that's been recalled by its manufacturer.
Seller, beware: Feds cracking down on garage sales | McClatchy
These cats are out of control.
CPSC’s goal is to protect consumers by getting dangerous recalled products out of resale stores and off the Internet. Re-selling recalled products is a violation of federal law.
Before re-selling products, CPSC encourages re-sellers to check its Web site, www.cpsc.gov, to determine if the product has been recalled.
CPSC is partnering with the National Association of Resale & Thrift Shops (NARTS), the Salvation Army, state agencies, and others to alert re-sellers about recalled products, product hazards including cribs that do not meet current safety standards, drawstrings in children’s clothing, and the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA).
“NARTS fully supports CPSC’s outreach efforts to resale stores,” said Adele Meyer, NARTS’ Executive Director
The agency’s education campaign, which will include safety seminars for resale store owners and employees, is part of CPSC’s commitment to protecting consumers, especially children.
Should research a bit. CPSC Launches Resale Round-up Campaign to Keep Dangerous Recalled Products Out of Resale Stores and Off the Internet
It's an educational campaign designed to get with resale stores like goodwill and show them how to comply with the law.
Those darn liberals trying to protect children from dangerous recalled products with, gasp, education....
More like those darn Libbos trying harder and harder to get into our personal lives. It's all about control.
Nice spin. Notice you did not bother to comment on the factually inaccurate parts of your article.
I expressed my opinion. You're the one with the, "we're here to help you", spin machine.
Nothing you can say will take way from the interventionism that the Libbos want so bad. If you can control what we sell at a yard sale, you can control just about anything. This is why limits were put on the government.
Here, let me help, you're supposed to say "oh, sorry, my bad, I misread the article." See, that's how normal people do it.
Only if they have changed their opinion on the subject. I haven't, so...
So, despite the facts, you still think that garage salers should beware? :doh
“This handbook will help sellers of used products identify types of potentially hazardous products that could harm children or others. CPSC’s laws and regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products. This includes thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and individuals holding yard sales and flea markets.”
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/thrift/thrguid.pdf
Despite what facts?
the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.
I stand corrected. I wonder how they would enforce such a thing which is on such a massive scale.
Is there a website to look at recalls?
Despite what facts?
It's illegal to sell dangerous products. Which as a Libertarian I think is a good thing. Protecting people from harm by third parties is the government's job after all. They have few other legitimate jobs. So if I understand your position here, you think it's OK to sell an exploding toaster as long as you are re-selling it? Interesting. So, are rape laws also unfair government meddling?
You think pot smokers should go to jail, but also think it's fine to sell someone a toaster that explodes when you plug it in?
So an agency that has been around since Nixon, when making an educational push to help resalers identify dangerous products, is somehow sinister how?
So, since rape is obviously a bad thing, who gets to define what a, "dangerous product", is? Folks are supposed to automatically know that a particular Tonka truck is a dangerous toy? Of course not, that's why the Libbos want to be able to come on our property and point out all the toys that are considered, "dangerous products".
So, since rape is obviously a bad thing, who gets to define what a, "dangerous product", is? Folks are supposed to automatically know that a particular Tonka truck is a dangerous toy? Of course not, that's why the Libbos want to be able to come on our property and point out all the toys that are considered, "dangerous products".
So, since rape is obviously a bad thing, who gets to define what a, "dangerous product", is? Folks are supposed to automatically know that a particular Tonka truck is a dangerous toy? Of course not, that's why the Libbos want to be able to come on our property and point out all the toys that are considered, "dangerous products".
Where in the hell is this "come onto our property" thing coming from. The program your source is going bonkers over is working with resale stores, not yard sales.
A parent would be stupid not to periodically check to make sure their kids toys haven't been recalled. It's not that difficult.
Toy Hazard Recalls
I don't disagree with that, but I don't believe that the government needs to get involved.
Obviously you didn't read the link I posted. Maybe I'm not the one that needs to do the research?
Obviously I did. Your link is to some website I have never heard of, provided an obviously overblown story that when factchecked(which you obviously did not do) proved to be false. Your claiming that a program to educate stores(as per the one single link that the story provided) is somehow about controlling peoples yard sales, despite the fact that I have shown you the press release that explains the program in some detail, is amusing.
“This handbook will help sellers of used products identify types of potentially hazardous products that could harm children or others. CPSC’s laws and regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products. This includes thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and individuals holding yard sales and flea markets.”
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/thrift/thrguid.pdf
By the way, I have no problem with the law. Makes sense. Protecting others is important and we should all do as such.
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