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2007-09-05 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Reasons to wait and shop for Xmas the night before. I also knew that Xmas Eve way the best day to buy stuff, expecially this year.

Posted by NOLA">NOLA 2007-09-05 02:57|| 2007-09-05 02:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe China will insert a toy into every box of lead they ship.

Posted by ed 2007-09-05 09:45|| 2007-09-05 09:45|| Front Page Top

#3 So, did the bean counters in management factor in the recalls in their cost analysis before moving the manufacturing to China? /sarcasm off

Many regulation have hidden costs. They sometimes also have hidden cost avoidances. Bet they calculated the former and not the latter.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-05 11:41|| 2007-09-05 11:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh Joy, less Barbie shit on the market. (You'd never guess I dislike Barbie, Would you?)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-09-05 12:04|| 2007-09-05 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Ya know, while the Chinese have the pie on their face, there is an awful ot of glossing over the negligence of Mattel. Whatever happeded to their QA program? Seems to me that when you have a vendor the botches it, you ( the customer) slap a Corrective Action on their little pinko asses. Twice you start an internal investigation into your own house and clena out the rats. This tells me that Mattel ain't so swell.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-09-05 14:04|| 2007-09-05 14:04|| Front Page Top

#6 ANd in other related Chinese-Made defective toy news: the WAPOST on line today is reporting the return of many condoms that have defective wrappers and may cause the product to be defective. No word as to whether this latest slap to Chinese product will put any lead in your pencil, so to speak....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-09-05 14:23|| 2007-09-05 14:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Boy, its about time some young entrepreneur from the good ole USA steps into this breach and starts making toys here again. I'd pay $$$ more to know that they are not using lead paint etc.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-09-05 16:02|| 2007-09-05 16:02|| Front Page Top

#8 condoms that have defective wrappers

So a lot of Inadvertent-Americans will have the Made in China label.

Posted by ed 2007-09-05 16:13|| 2007-09-05 16:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Mattel Inc., whose reputation has been battered ...

Hey, Mattel. Here's a nice big fat hairy clue at no extra charge.

Why not rehabilitate your corporate name by being the first major American toy manufacturer to declare a five-year moratorium on producing toys in China? You'd have the moral highground and people would readily pay an extra few bucks if they knew there was a much lower likelihood of toxic ingredients being present.

As this ~~scandal~~ farce continues to play out, it rapidly takes on Ford Motor Company's legal approach to the Exploding Pinto Problem. The idiots at Mattel view these toy recalls as part of the cost of doing business rather than the commercial market-share poison that they are.

Consumers could easily drive Mattel out of China by threatening a total boycott of all their products. Within seconds after starting such a consumer boycott the next thing heard would be a loud popping sound of air rushing in to occupy the space once occupied by Mattel in China.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-05 18:02|| 2007-09-05 18:02|| Front Page Top

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