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There are other products on Amazon you should probably not buy either. Namely, products from randomly named companies, or companies that claim to be American b

There are other products on Amazon you should probably not buy either. Namely, products from randomly named companies, or companies that claim to be American but it their address is a warehouse and their Internet presence is hosted on Alibaba Cloud. Most of what they sell is toxic, like PVC figures for children cakes, toxic kitchenware, counterfeit refrigerator filters and other magnets for penny pinchers. It is almost as if they were intentionally trying to poison people. Most of the furniture sold by Chinese vendors and their intermediaries are so toxic that fucking HCHO meters max out when you open the box. Including kids furniture. Sneaky fucks should all go to jail. I would much rather prefer buying products from countries with real customer protection, real compliance with regulations with real consequences when someone gets sick from a non-compliant product.

stackedinserter 4y ago
> It is almost as if they were intentionally trying to poison people. This, this, this. Just look at what are dollar stores selling us. To me it looks like China packs their garbage in form of children toys and useless things like so called "squishees" that smell like they fished right out a toxic river. Story time: my wife tried to import toys from EU, high quality wooden building blocks. I remember that regulatory hell, she needed to have a safety certificate for each SKU, they have to pass lab tests for phthalates, lead and other shit, there was a never ending list of requirements, like "you can't have this rope because it's strangulation hazard". And after you comply to all that regulations, you need to buy a business insurance to even have a chance to get into chains. So we have piles of paperwork for good products and seemingly completely unregulated Dollarama that sells whatever they want without following any rules. "This SKU doesn't explode before leaving a store – it's good to go". We need a law that would obligate sellers to accept their garbage back, including packaging (looking at you, Costco).
- 29athrowaway 4y ago
  Most returned stuff goes to a warehouse and then gets destroyed. You can buy pallets of that stuff for a reduced price.
  - stackedinserter 4y ago
    No, I'm not talking about stuff that people return to store. My point was to make stores dispose all that garbage that they sell to people, including packaging. Like instead of throwing it to our blue bins, we could bring it back to store for disposal.

stackedinserter 4y ago

> It is almost as if they were intentionally trying to poison people. This, this, this. Just look at what are dollar stores selling us. To me it looks like China packs their garbage in form of children toys and useless things like so called "squishees" that smell like they fished right out a toxic river. Story time: my wife tried to import toys from EU, high quality wooden building blocks. I remember that regulatory hell, she needed to have a safety certificate for each SKU, they have to pass lab tests for phthalates, lead and other shit, there was a never ending list of requirements, like "you can't have this rope because it's strangulation hazard". And after you comply to all that regulations, you need to buy a business insurance to even have a chance to get into chains. So we have piles of paperwork for good products and seemingly completely unregulated Dollarama that sells whatever they want without following any rules. "This SKU doesn't explode before leaving a store – it's good to go". We need a law that would obligate sellers to accept their garbage back, including packaging (looking at you, Costco).

29athrowaway 4y ago
Most returned stuff goes to a warehouse and then gets destroyed. You can buy pallets of that stuff for a reduced price.
- stackedinserter 4y ago
  No, I'm not talking about stuff that people return to store. My point was to make stores dispose all that garbage that they sell to people, including packaging. Like instead of throwing it to our blue bins, we could bring it back to store for disposal.