Q&A: Who should be blamed for the toys and other chinese product recall conundrum?
Posted by James on July 7, 2010 · 20 Comments
Question by voodoogirl_w: Who should be blamed for the toys and other chinese product recall conundrum?
Obviously Chinese manufactures will be blamed and punished for what had happened, and they should be. However, The US companies did make gazillion dollars because of those low-cost-high-profit cheap products. What happened to the product quality control before putting the product on the shelves? There are the Chinese government, US government, exporter, importer, the company itself, and the retail store between the Chinese manufactures and consumers.
Best answer:
Answer by ducky
the people that buy all that Chinese crapola at WalMart
Add your own answer in the comments!
George Bush – of course
I think the Government should be held responsible for allowing the Free Trade Agreement. That’s why all these products are allowed to be manufactured overseas in the first place.
“The savage huns are raping nuns, killing babies and attacking religion.” –1917
Because we buy everything from China because we owe them so much money. Simple isn’t it?
anyone supporting ‘globalization’ a.k.a. NWO
you and me and everyone else who wants cheap products.
Some how the Liberals will blame Bush.
In their eyes, he can do no good.
It is everyones fault. It is the Chinese’s fault for not putting out regulations on toys and other exports. It is the fault of the toy companies who sell them to Toys R US for not testing this crap at random. It is our fault for not giving a hoot about where our goods come from and what happens to the money we give to China after we buy their garbage (which goes to fund their huge army and terrorists in Afghanistan).
in the end, the consumer, who buys that cheap crap.
The Brain is right…it’s the consumer who is lowering EVERYONE’S standards when they buy the storebrand crap or anything simply because it’s cheaper…there is a reason that some products are cheap: because the quality is crap. i can’t take sympathy on people who wonder why they get diabetes or cancer while they never look at the nutrition facts or ingredients. mmm taste the preservatives and flavor enhansors.
the american companies who outsource their labor to China
Immigration.
Why let Mexico have all the fun?
If they let them come on over, so that the “powers that be” can oversee them.
They won’t put lead in stuff etc.
Let’s be fair and take a few million of good honest Chinese in.
If a company operates in such a manner that it completely distrusts its supply chain it will not remain in business long. Companies, like individuals, operate on a series of relationships. As companies have no moral compass the use of contracts enhances basic trust relationships that arise from the goal of profit on both sides.
When one of the parties decides to violate the trust and contract for a goal of higher profit it is either because they are short-sighted, they believe they will not be caught, or they have decided to terminate the relationship. In any case the breach is entirely their fault.
Statistical sampling of the goods received from a supplier is standard practice to ensure not only compliance with contracts but also to ensure that brand value and the end consumer are not damaged through a quality slippage. If you are proposing that the larger company is at fault because it did not engage in 100% sampling your logic defies economics.
If you believe that Mattel, for example, benefited in some way through these incidents you are mistaken. The combination of recall costs, brand damage, and inevitable liability claims far exceed any profit they might have made on the products in question.
80% of the toys purchased in the world are manufactured in China, so you can only blame the Chinese. Why is everyone always trying to find a way to somehow blame the US government for everything?
Them (the Chinese ) and us (the Canadian and American consumer) and the big fat cat CEO in the middle all share some of the blame
The Chinese – should be blamed and will be
The consumer will not be blamed (but we are partially responsible ) but we will be punished and have been punished – With dead pets – with inconvience and with time and agravation )
The fat cat CEO who should take most of the blame will niether be punished or blamed – They made horrible decisions based on money that put our lives at risk – They profited off our unemployment and took our jobs to forignn markets – All in the name of the holy buck –
Blame ? China for selling us crap ? 35%
Us the consumer for not insisting on buying products made in Canada or the US of A – 20 %
The self styled scrooge CEO who knew better but took a risk with our lives so they could break labour down and make a few more billion by almost killing us poisoning us and harming our children – 45%
That is how it should go
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Here is how it will go –
China – 80%
Consumer 15%
Candian/American government staning in lieu of the CEO – 5%
Inspections and inspectors have been cut and reduced since the glorious Reagan era. Who needs inspectors, the market and the benevolent loving corporations will watch out for us, right? I guess not. Consumers also bear a large part of the blame. If you buy cheap junk you get cheap junk. In this case cheap dangerous junk.
Consumers.
They want cheap stuff, and they don’t give a flying monkey about any part of the process that gets it to them.
These are the same consumers by the way, who cry about big government, and how all the safety requirements are harming big business.
I don’t know….maybe the Chinese?
Way to go. Just fall into the lemming like mind-set and see this as somehow a bad thing. As of today there has not been one child harmed, sickened, or hospitalized because of China’s manufacturing problems. This should be viewed as a success, the problems were discovered, the toys recalled, those responsible are being held to account. If you don’t want to buy toys made in China, just look at the label, when you see made in China put it back on the shelf and buy a different toy. How simple can it be?
JAKE HAS THE RIGHT ANSWER!