Feds Cracking Down on Rogue Goodwill and Salvation Army Thrift Stores.

DON'T SELL THAT EASY BAKE OVEN !!!

As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.

The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that's been recalled by its manufacturer.

"Those who resell recalled children's products are not only breaking the law, they are putting children's lives at risk," said Inez Tenenbaum, the recently confirmed chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission...............

Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the agency, said it wouldn't be dispatching bureaucratic storm troopers into private homes to see whether people were selling recalled products from their garages, yards or churches.

"We're not looking to come across as being heavy-handed," he said. "We want to make sure that everybody knows what the rules of engagement are ( What are they doing? Going into battle against Goodwill?)to help spur greater compliance, so that enforcement becomes less of an issue. But we're still going to enforce."

The agency is working with eBay, Wolfson said, to help the online sales giant install software filters that will flag auction items subject to manufacturers' recalls.

The commission's Internet surveillance unit is monitoring Craigslist and other "top auction and reselling sites" for recalled goods. If the agency discovers that a recalled product has been sold online, it will try to find and inform the buyer, Wolfson said.

Logically, we don't want products sold that can hurt kids. And logically, we want stores to be well aware of defective products. And online services and resellers should be aware or recalls, but do we want the Feds going to our Church Yards sales and flea markets? Don't they have better things to do like stopping terrorism, solving bank robberies, organized crime,etc?


First Products on Recall Roundup
Playskool Travel-Lite
Evenflo Happy Camper
Baby Trend Home and Roam and Baby
Magnetix Magnetic Building Sets
Easy Bake Ovens
Polly Pocket Dolls
Simplicity Drop Side Cribs
Simplicity Bassinets
Hill Sportswear hooded drawstring sweatshirt
Evenflo Envision High Chairs