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Mattel apologizes to China for toy recalls [!!!]
Reuters ^ | Ben Blanchard

Posted on 09/21/2007 5:10:49 AM PDT by indcons

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Mattel's behavior has been disgraceful - be it their ignoring coustomer complaints on fire hazards for the last 3 years, lead paint levels that are 20 times more than what's allowed, or this latest bit of kowtowing to the ChiComs.

I hope the market responds to Mattel's shameful behavior accordingly in the upcoming holiday seasons.

1 posted on 09/21/2007 5:10:50 AM PDT by indcons
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Mattel

M - Manufactured
A - Asian
T - Toddler
T - Toys
E - Excessive
L - Lead


2 posted on 09/21/2007 5:20:29 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Q: Personal Hygiene A: Name something that offends both Terrorists and Leftists)
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Debrowski, who sat stony-faced throughout the meeting with Li

Grovelling before his Chinese master, slinking away like a whipped dog.

3 posted on 09/21/2007 5:24:52 AM PDT by csvset
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Best answer to this is to stop buying Matel products and the ones you have......mail them back to them.


4 posted on 09/21/2007 5:29:31 AM PDT by WBL 1952
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Wassamatta Mattel, cant find cheap labor elsewhere in the Pacific Rim....Look around.


5 posted on 09/21/2007 5:29:42 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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They realized they can’t get labor any cheaper than the chinese so they go groveling back. Makes sense if your only worried about the bottom line and don’t think about customers impact.

Watch their stock drop after the new year when (hopefully) the masses avoid their toys this Christmas season.
Unfortunately there will still be the buffoons out there getting the latest version of the Elmo doll...


6 posted on 09/21/2007 5:32:25 AM PDT by PissAndVinegar
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my favorite Mattel toy as a kid....and we use to play cowboys and indians and yell “I’m gonna fill ya full of lead....”

nothing changes.

7 posted on 09/21/2007 5:33:22 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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Mattel deserves to go bankrupt after this debacle. When they finally admitted that some toys are testing lead levels 180 times the allowable level, that should have been the last straw for consumers. Shame on this greedy bunch of rip-off artists, who valued Chinese slave labor over the health of American children.


8 posted on 09/21/2007 5:36:53 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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"'I’m gonna fill ya full of lead....' nothing changes." LOL
9 posted on 09/21/2007 5:42:42 AM PDT by indcons
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You can tell it’s Mattel....it’s swell!! (like hell!) :0 )


10 posted on 09/21/2007 5:51:44 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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Keep on truckling if you want to keep your cheap labor — and your FDI, Mattel!


11 posted on 09/21/2007 5:53:28 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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I had two six shooters and a leather holster.

I was tough.


12 posted on 09/21/2007 6:01:44 AM PDT by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
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Debrowski best not visit China again or they will execute him for shaming the Chinese.


13 posted on 09/21/2007 6:04:55 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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If you really want to apologize Matel, then maybe you should bring back the manufacturing to the US, bite the bullet on that extra $0.02 per product and slap big ‘ole “MADE IN THE USA” labels all over the toys. At that point, I’d consider buying your produts again. With an 11 month old son, I’m sure as ish not buying anything MATEL at this point until this happens.


14 posted on 09/21/2007 6:06:58 AM PDT by SengirV
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Thank you for trying to kill our children with your lead paint. It’d be like someone coming up and hitting you in the face, O I’m sorry you hit me.


15 posted on 09/21/2007 6:16:14 AM PDT by JamesA
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I had the 2 fanner fifties and the rolling block rifle to go with it with ‘shootin’ shells and greenie stickum caps.


16 posted on 09/21/2007 6:16:28 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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This reads like a parody from Scrappleface. If this article is accurate, Mattel should now go out of business for being an obsequious, slimy, bottom crawler.
17 posted on 09/21/2007 6:23:57 AM PDT by Truth29
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I’d say look south. Might solve more than one problem.

My guess is that even Mexico couldn’t compete with the consumer friendly “wages” being offered in China.


18 posted on 09/21/2007 7:24:21 AM PDT by incredulous joe ("I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly." - Stephen Wright)
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Un-flipping-believable!
19 posted on 09/21/2007 7:26:04 AM PDT by TChris (Governments don't RAISE money; they TAKE it.)
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Shame on this greedy bunch of rip-off artists, who valued Chinese slave labor over the health of American children.

Yes our lead paint hysteria should trump Mattel's understanding of the true lead paint problem. /s

The vast majority of lead poisoning cases were/are incurred during the remodeling of structures with lead paint coverings. The dust is the problem. Nanny state mentality gathered up all things lead and banned them from home use. For the children...

20 posted on 09/21/2007 7:38:26 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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