Choking hazard?

DirtPoorGuy

Is is just me that thinks that this is a choking hazard and no sensible person would actually buy one of these for their child to teethe on?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130698493419

hermum

There's been lots of posts about some of the horrendous items now being sold for babies. All sorts of blinged up crap.
The sellers seem to think that putting in their disclaimer, Please note these clips contain small parts, children should not be left unsupervised with the clips, these are not to be used as a teething aid, the buyer assumes all responsibility for this item.
means they won't be held responsible when a baby dies.
The sad thing is that it's going to be silly young parents, (I assume) who will be the most likely to buy this trash & not know better.
Why anyone would allow anything like this near their baby I have no idea but there's lots being sold & all sorts of stuff with diamantes.

Crowqueen

No, you're far from the only one.

It's awful and it's why health and safety/public liability insurance exist - to protect the public who may not know any better from the people who do know better yet continue to make money off the back of unsafe goods and the naivety of the general public.

The seller could not disclaim something like that and in the event of a claim the damages might be enough to sink any reasonable person if they didn't take out proper insurance.

The best thing is for new parents to be ultra-careful about what they give to their kids, obviously, but it would help if people stopped selling these things as well.

RFW

There's a number of hand/home made products for babies especially that look very dangerous.
I think the people making them would think twice if they knew that a custodial sentence is possible for manufacturers of goods that aren't to standard. By selling them on Ebay or anywhere it isn't the same as making one for your nephew/neighbour etc.

midnightraven3

why cant ebay ban any homemade baby/child items?
they cant make much money from the sales

dont they have to have the CE mark?

this is an accident waiting to happen:(

RFW

midnightraven3 wrote: »

why cant ebay ban any homemade baby/child items?
they cant make much money from the sales

dont they have to have the CE mark?

this is an accident waiting to happen:(

It depends on the items. There are certain items that need kite mark standards, I'd have thought that it is relatively self policing in that potentially dodgy items don't really sell.

hermum

RFW wrote: »

It depends on the items. There are certain items that need kite mark standards, I'd have thought that it is relatively self policing in that potentially dodgy items don't really sell.

Some of the blinged up baby stuff is flying out.

the_becoming

Coincidently I have posted about the very same thing on Families board after being added to a facebook group selling these stupid things - I had no idea that so many people are selling them! I sincerely hope that anybody idiotic enough to buy this tat has had first aid training!
I have emailed trading standards about this particular group, probably pointless but at least I feel I have done something!

hermum

We've reported lots of nasty things for babies sold on ebay. I fear that the only thing that will stop these idiots from selling these things is when the first person gets prosecuted, probably over the death of a baby.
I've just put personalised dummy clip into ebay search & there's currently 1119 listings.
Just one I looked at has sold 475 of them.

jlux111

Don't mean to play devils advocate here but if a person is stupid enough to buy one of those, let alone allow their child access to it unsupervised, then why should the seller be to blame?

People have got to take responsibility for their own actions at some point.

hermum

jlux111 wrote: »

Don't mean to play devils advocate here but if a person is stupid enough to buy one of those, let alone allow their child access to it unsupervised, then why should the seller be to blame?

People have got to take responsibility for their own actions at some point.

Adults should take responsibilty for their actions, however children who are unfortunate enough to be born to cretins who think that these things enhance the life of a baby in some way need to be protected from their stupid parents.
If that means the banning of sales of them then so be it.
Sellers have jumped on to making these to turn a profit, without a thought to the dangers posed.