• bassomitron@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Tons of people. My wife bought a $7 digital camera off of there for one of our kids and 2 years later, both of our kids still love playing with it and it works perfectly fine. We’ve bought a couple of other toys off of there without issue. But yeah, the majority of the products on there are typically garbage.

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      3 days ago

      Only thing I worry about with toys is if the plastic they use is non-toxic. Most cheap toys sold online aren’t tested for plastic toxicity.

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        3 days ago

        True enough, but toxic toys aren’t super common in the US. It certainly happens, but they eventually get detected and recalled. That being said, with Trump’s plans for gutting regulatory bodies even further, I’ll be much less inclined to order cheap toys from online.

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            3 days ago

            Not the best example, the health risks from radium dials were mostly to the people that painted them, because they licked their brushes to point them.

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              3 days ago

              mostly is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Would you like to buy my glow in the dark watch, then?