On Dec 16, 12:06 pm, Dave Hinz wrote:

We're not importing toy parts, we're importing toys, packaged and ready
for the store shelf.
As has been pointed out, the distributors should be inspecting those
toys even if they're "ready for the store shelf"

You can blame the Chinese factories all you want. They deserve it. But
unless I misunderstand you, it seems you want to place no blame at all
on the parent companies who are taking them, without any inspection,
and placing them on the store shelves.

In my factory, we shipped out many things "Ready for the shelves" and
we sometimes got shipments returned because of something somebody
found in an inspection. Sometimes it was our fault, sometimes it was a
mistake.

My point is that those toys should have had a better final inspection
from the people that bought them. Part of the blame goes to the
customer. Not all, but dammit, our people got sloppy too. You're
supposed to keep better tabs on your suppliers than that.