Faketory: Toys from dump and pills to kill
We buy medicine in a chemist’s shop, we purchase colorful toys as presents for our children, we see fashionable things at the market place. But what we don’t imagine is that this daily routine can be dangerous or illegal. Illegal vendors prefer to get their invoice-free and sub-standard goods from intermediaries because it’s cheaper. How can consumers learn to identify a fake? And can law enforcement win the war against the producers and traders of counterfeit goods?
@Steaphany Extremely bad. Thousands of people buy counterfeit toys and other products every year. Most without knowing it. But it comes at a price because most haven’t been safety tested and could (and most of the time do) contain all kinds of dangerous and and even disgusting chemicals. Counterfeit toys have been known to contain high altitudes of led paint. Fake perfumes have been made of things like urine and even anti freeze.
i hate fake figures !!! Argh!!! They are super ugly and cheap, but they can be toxic !!! Be careful on eBay !
18:50-19:04 that doll scares me so much that I can’t even look at it.Dolls scare me sorry V_V
Why were they fucking w/ the vendors? They’re just poor ppl tryig to make a living.
Being a copy-cat in Asia is in fact honoring the original inventor…hard to understand for the Western, copyrighted Über-ego mindset of “I-me-mine”…
holy crap i saw two things i got for my kids on that shelf, the frogs and the dishes! But i live in the US, and our standards for safety are lower than Europe.
Hay if it’s cheeper and does what I need it to do, I’ll buy it. Period, I don’t give a crap about Brand Names and such, And I know most working class blue collar low wages people feel the same.
@Steaphany It’s pretty bad
@LazyOtaku i agree….but then perhaps we need new semantics instaed of talking about a “free market”…..
Cheburashka!
It just won’t do if the poor buy goods from anyone else but the corporations, its up to us to educate ourselves to the dangers of hidden toxins etc in pirate goods to protect our kids and families…you should first find out what is in legal products like coke and mcdonalds….the poisons are hidden and denied.
we really need more plastic stuff. real? fake? who cares? i want more plastic toys now!
@Steaphany We just get ship loads of junk instead. Capitalists don’t care about kids or health obviously. In America we’d pay 50x more for pharmaceuticals.
@Steaphany , not bad at all …. because the cost of labor in the us is still very high , even if they would do it here , they couldn’t compete with China and India
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@Steaphany Hardly much at all, actually. Retailers pull products on just a rumor of impropriety due to the fact that they are in tight competition with other stores that will do so, just to keep the goodwill of the customer.
@neocon70 Bric should also traffic weapons into Afghanistan so the Taliban have more ways of killing American troops than just home made plastics. You are retarded, who is the largest arms exporter in the world? and who exdported arms to Saddam Hussein and the Mujahideen, do us all a favor and slit ur own throat.
How come the people just make Illegal drugs and earn more money.
@Steaphany They stock this junk right in our stores here. Many stores have special areas where very cheap merchandise is segregated and others promote it right next to regular quality items as being similar but less expensive. We also have dollar stores that are largely these type of items. This is why our landfills are filling up so rapidly and trash disposal is so expensive. The attitude is that is is cheap enough if it doesn’t work we can just throw it away.
@von32897 i am 157 years old my friend… my mind is beyond wisdom you can imagine.. i know i just blew your mind.
@GravDiga - LOL. 12 yr old little turd!
the price we all pay for cheap goods is cancer….
BRIC is responsible for this. The low quality toys they peddle is childsplay compared to the trafficking of weapons that fuel ethic wars and terrorism. BRIC’s international arms industry is the primary concern for human life on earth. Surely the manufactures of the RPGs dont intent for them to kill American troops and civilians in Somalia, but they do end up at the world’s conflict zones. Still they do nothing to ensure their supply chain is uncompromised by shady dealers.
Screw toys ill just buy my kid a skateboard and bicycle there less dangerous.