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Seller, beware: Feds cracking down on garage sales

damn...i had a buyer lined up for my jarts......

The people who did my auction for my grandmothers estate this weekend could not sell the old Lincoln Logs my sister and I played with as children and my grandmother saved, because they are a choking hazard. Makes sense, but I could not let them go into the trash, so now I have one more thing I will never use in my barn.
 
I'm sure the amount of perfectly good car seats going in the trash as a result of a nonsensical law far exceeds the rare occurrence of a someone trying to sell a seat that was involved in an accident. It just seems horribly wasteful to me.

There's a great amount of material goods that go to waste in the US that are perfectly usable.

Therefore, I say we rectify the situation by contract law. Those who know that their goods are safe will have no problem. Those who know their goods are possibly unsafe or are safe will not engage in resell. Thus we reduce the wastefulness while retaining good usable second hand products.
 
These cats are out of control.

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Yup!!! Like said, those darned Dems are always sticking their noses where they don't belong.
I mean like, who gives a **** about our kids safety!
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Who???? Repubs??? Hell no!!! Dems???? Hell yes!!!
Its more important for the Repukes to spend their time trying to save bush and the likes of hims asses!
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Repub kid: Daddy don't you care about our safety?
Dad, shut the **** UP kid! I have more important things to do like trying to save bush and his Repuke buddys asses!!!
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**** YOU DADDY!!!!
 
The CPSC--just one more agency that needs to be abolished.
 
These cats are out of control.


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.

I don't have a problem with this.

If they were trying to tax garage sale monies, then I would have a problem.
 
I don't have a problem with this.

If they were trying to tax garage sale monies, then I would have a problem.

You know, when looking at this after taking a break, is this really any different then basic laws now?

After all, I do recall it is a crime to sell a good as safe when it is not safe knowingly, that's misrepresentation of material facts and at certain levels fraud. And legal precedent does make it exceedingly clear that public notice in the form of newspaper ads at national levels and trade journals invalidates claims of ignorance regarding a product.

So someone at a garage sale selling something that has been publicly recalled is in violation independent of this law.
 
The people who did my auction for my grandmothers estate this weekend could not sell the old Lincoln Logs my sister and I played with as children and my grandmother saved, because they are a choking hazard. Makes sense, but I could not let them go into the trash, so now I have one more thing I will never use in my barn.


ebay. :)



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More like those darn Libbos trying harder and harder to get into our personal lives. It's all about control.
Then you think it is OK to sell dangerous products ?
But, I agree, the safety nazis are going too far. .
And this has little to nothing to do with Liberals or Conservatives.
 
The CPSC--just one more agency that needs to be abolished.

Intriguing idea, do they have any worth, or are they just an annoyance ?
I do not know..I do know that its is human nature to over-do things...hence "safety nazis".

People who sell ,not for profit, should not be subject to these laws.
 
The people who did my auction for my grandmothers estate this weekend could not sell the old Lincoln Logs my sister and I played with as children and my grandmother saved, because they are a choking hazard. The true hazard is unfit parents neglecting their little ones, trusting Lincoln logs and TV to watch their children. Makes sense, but I could not let them go into the trash, so now I have one more thing I will never use in my barn.

Ridiculous, totally insane.
If Lincoln logs are a threat, which they are not, then every toy given to babes is unsafe.
Is the government ready to ban toys to tots ??
The governments should stay out of this.
 
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I don't have a problem with this.

If they were trying to tax garage sale monies, then I would have a problem.


Garage sale money is already taxed! You are supposed to declare it. No one does and the IRS doesn't go after people, but I have seen cases where they went after E-bay sellers.
 
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Yup!!! Like said, those darned Dems are always sticking their noses where they don't belong.
I mean like, who gives a **** about our kids safety!
-
Who???? Repubs??? Hell no!!! Dems???? Hell yes!!!
Its more important for the Repukes to spend their time trying to save bush and the likes of hims asses!
-
Repub kid: Daddy don't you care about our safety?
Dad, shut the **** UP kid! I have more important things to do like trying to save bush and his Repuke buddys asses!!!
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**** YOU DADDY!!!!
If you give a **** about kids safety, you make wise choices.

If you don't give a ****, or are too stupid to figure it out, you vote for Democrats.

Dem kid: Daddy don't you care about our safety?
Dad: [Oh yeah, dems don't have dads, make more money off of welfare that way]
Mom: I don't have a clue about your safety, kid. You better home someone steps in and helps us out, because these toys are WAY too hard for me to ffigure out. What am I, Einstein?
 
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