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Toy prices may rise 10%...are you concerned??
For now, toy makers and retailers are sharing the burden, but that's only expected to last until the holiday season. Next year, American consumers will be facing price increases of up to 10 percent to pay for the industry's increased vigilance after more than 3 million lead-tainted toys from China were recalled worldwide since June.
How much are you willing to pay to insure safer toys??
120 years ago, Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up with 1 toy her whole childhood(a doll). how many toys do kids need?
90% of all plastic items ever made are still around somewhere...how much plastic crap is enough??
6 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
****** CHINESE pieces of crap. before u know every thing mite be recalled.
- Super MimiLv 41 decade ago
Most of the toys, and general merchandises we brought from China were per our U.S. based company's order and specifications. If the merchandise is not met with the company's specifications, the company will not pay the overseas vendors. As a matter of fact, all the merchandises have passed the inspection by the S.G.S .(an independent inspection organization), the U.S. buyers (companies), then, released the L/C (letter of credit) money to the overseas sellers. What we need is to legislate laws to limit the U.S.companies to order these low quality, low labor cost products from anywhere in the world. If the labor's working condition is not human, and clean. The Federal Trade Commission should investigate, inspect all of the relevant
orders, and its original specifications, and fine those companies - why our companies ask the foreign companies to produce the harmful toys,merchandises to import into the U.S. and poison the citizens in the States. The greedy U.S.company's managements are the persons to be blamed. These managements want profit only, and risk the health of the people in the States. If we do not buy low cost products, we can keep our factory in the U.S. and our worker will not be out of work.
Most of our people do not know what causes this problem, and all barking at the wrong tree. We should make laws to prohibit the U.S. manufacturers to move to the overseas.
We do not mind to pay a reasonable price for the toy- as long as the product is safe, as long as our worker can produce them in the United States.
- 1 decade ago
Nope, I'm not concerned with the rising cost of toy prices. Do you know why? It's that same Laura Ingalls Wilder reason. As a kid, my mother only allowed each kid to have ten toys. Any more than that, and we had to donate the toys that sent us over the ten toy limit to charity. It kept her house spotless, and you can bet we didn't contribute much to that pile o' plastic.
I suggest that adults this year do as my family did when none of the kids wanted new toys, and go on a fun family outing somewhere, instead. The zoo's really nice, cheap, educational, and last time I checked, doesn't contain lead.
- Big JohnLv 41 decade ago
I agree if they are made here they are worth paying more otherwise wait for clearance. It is just another way for the rich to lie and get richer while they put more distance between the small person and the corporation
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Toy prices should increase, parents need to think before they buy, children seem to have far too much these days...