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Iirc Facebook has dealt with this for lots of children's stuff by banning it's sale. Certain items (forgot which, maybe car seats etc) you have to look up crea
by ty6853 2y ago
Iirc Facebook has dealt with this for lots of children's stuff by banning it's sale. Certain items (forgot which, maybe car seats etc) you have to look up creative misnamings to find them, although maybe Ai has crushed that by now.
What will actually happen is this stuff just becomes less accessible to poor people and now their child had no safety equipment at all instead of a 1/100 chance of a recalled item that probably still would be better than nothing.
- danorama 2y agoBut without the CPSC that safety equipment might not be safe at all. And elimination what Amazon is arguing for.
- Aurornis 2y agoExactly. If you make the regulations cover a wider range of products, the only response is to ban those products from sale. If the regulations cover everything, well then either the marketplaces all shut down or they cost $10 per listing and require you to agree to a lot of legal consequences if you provide wrong info in your listing. Ideas like this only sound good to people who imagine no consequences will ever reach them, just billion dollar corporations.
- danorama 2y agoBy that argument the regulations shouldn’t cover anything? It would make a lot more products available to more people, after all. And maybe cheaper?
- ty6853 2y agoThe regulation has to be cheaper than the value add of the service. Nobody wants to get sued for a gazillion because one time in 100 million a child flies out the recalled car seat and gets chopped up by a telephone pole, which of course will be all the fault of Facebook with deep pockets and not the drunk or exhausted parent that is driving. They're just going to say no thanks we will ban this item.
- viraptor 2y agoCar seats and breast pumps - they're pretty much immediately deleted.
- Aurornis 2y agoExactly - Extend that mentality to everything and then you won’t be able to list any of those products either.
- viraptor 2y agoOr a random person gets a post-crash or faulty child seat on an offer, even though they would buy a new one instead if they were aware. The issue goes both ways and we don't seem to have enough information to post anything better than a random 1% guess.
- ty6853 2y agoThe main value add of buying a brand new seat has always been that unless someone repackaged and returned one (which does happen), there is 0% chance it is post crash. That is the whole point of used car seats, if you are too broke to buy a new one it is almost always better than nothing and the proposition is you assume some risk but less risk than before.
- consteval 2y agoI'm not sure this is true. I buy used stuff all the time, even though I can afford new stuff. All my clothes are second-hand. The reason I do that is because I can ascertain the quality of the clothing and determine that, despite them being cheaper and used, they are just as good if not better. I'm sure there's a lot of parents who assume, incorrectly, that a used and relatively clean car seat is just as good as a new one. So, they save a few bucks because why not?
- ty6853 2y agoI think the number of people oblivious to the fact that stuff like helmets and car seats have the hazard of being compromised from a crash is low enough to not distort the market much. That's part of why these items have such a discount used. Meanwhile you can sell stuff like durable name brand tools commonly for near new price. Unfortunately when a new child arrives finances tend to be at a minimum and this deep discount works out as a almost always better than nothing and for super cheap.
- consteval 2y agoClose to all used car seats have never been in a crash. I think you're underestimating how ignorant to this the average person is.