Comments on: A Sad Result of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/03/04/consumer-product-safety-improvement-act/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anne Orlando http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/03/04/consumer-product-safety-improvement-act/comment-page-1/#comment-546860 Anne Orlando Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:35:59 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=4179#comment-546860 “This has no impact on new, mass produced products; anything new will be manufactured to comply with the guidelines.”

Excuse me? I own a screen printing company and this law is effecting everyone. You think it’s cheap and easy to switch everything you use to make things in order to comply with this insane law?

By this time next year, we must have gotten rid of all of our inks and inventory in order to be in compliance. In this current economic crisis, many business who are having a hard enough time has it is, will be going out of business and many more jobs are going to be lost.

]]> By: PandaBean http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/03/04/consumer-product-safety-improvement-act/comment-page-1/#comment-544554 PandaBean Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:03:23 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=4179#comment-544554 We had a new second-hand store go out of business here. They had just opened and sold specifically baby clothes and they were doing a great amount of business (it helped they were next to the crisis pregnancy center) and now they’re gone.

God Bless!
Amanda

]]> By: tammy http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/03/04/consumer-product-safety-improvement-act/comment-page-1/#comment-544443 tammy Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:14:17 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=4179#comment-544443 It’s not been fixed at all. Congress hasn’t changed anything in their original writing of this law, it’s still in effect. Now the CPSC can say that 2nd hand sellers are exempt. But it’s not written into the law that they are. Our AG office says that they will follow what congress has issued. There are no exemptions until Congress re-writes it.

It has also put us out of business and it has taken the reason to live from several grandmothers who knit and crochet for babies in NICU who can’t afford to test their products.

]]> By: Brian http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/03/04/consumer-product-safety-improvement-act/comment-page-1/#comment-544396 Brian Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:59:03 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=4179#comment-544396 I think it’s been fixed.

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/01/12/update-on-reselling-used-childrens-clothing/

]]> By: Beth http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/03/04/consumer-product-safety-improvement-act/comment-page-1/#comment-544387 Beth Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:27:29 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=4179#comment-544387 http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/pending/cpsia.asp

]]> By: Annie Jones http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/03/04/consumer-product-safety-improvement-act/comment-page-1/#comment-544348 Annie Jones Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:47:18 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=4179#comment-544348 I don’t know about your friends toys, but I think they have already exempted used clothing from this law.

]]> By: Claire http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/03/04/consumer-product-safety-improvement-act/comment-page-1/#comment-544339 Claire Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:58:59 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=4179#comment-544339 This isn’t strictly true. The CPSC issueda a clarification stating that this law was never intended to apply to second-hand sellers. Read it here: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09086.html

They don’t have to test their items, but aren’t allowed to sell things with a high lead content, so they need to be pretty sure that what they’re selling can’t/doesn’t have lead.

It does still apply to the older gentleman you referred to though, which is too bad.

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