CPSIA – Let’s Pretend We’re a Resale Shop!

Who wants to play a fun game? Let’s pretend we are the Salvation Army Resale Shop in your neighborhood and process some newly submitted children’s products. We have to figure out if we can sell them legally because we know the CPSC is about to stop by. Sound like fun? Of course it is! I know you like to play Store.

Here are the rules of the game: I have reproduced ten children’s items here. These images came from eBay and from the CPSC website. Yes, one or more of the items has been RECALLED – oooo, CPSC Chairman Tenenbaum says recalled items “[put] children’s lives at risk.” So in this game, you can make children in your neighborhood so, so safe if you find the “dangerous” recalled product or products. Of course, you will also avoid going to the pokey. . . . As you well know, it’s illegal to resell something that was recalled, so you have to go through the drill of figuring out which of these $3.00 items are okay to sell. In today’s Product Safety Letter, Randy Swart informed us: “Culling out recalled products adds another level of processing for the small retailer of reused products, but it can be done by just checking against a list.”

Everybody has been saying that it’s so easy to figure out which items have been recalled. After all, the CPSC has a nifty website and all you have to do is check it. Right? Let’s find out. Mr. Swart gave you the link. Thanks, Randy!

I want to know how you like my contest and how quickly you were able to finish all ten items. Get out your stopwatches! No cheating – I want to know how long it took to thoroughly check each of the ten items, and how many items you think were recalled. Please don’t say which one(s) were recalled since that would spoil the game for everyone else.

Btw, my contest is open to all contestants - even CPSC Professional Staff, CPSC Commissioners and Members of Congress. Don’t be shy!

Ready, set, go!