Re: [nas] Soccer goal recall

I know, Peter K. I agree with you. I think they are trying to prevent more lawsuits by issuing the recall. Heck, it could have been one of the older units that had been baking and deteriorating in the TX summers since it was purchased.

But, if there was a serious design flaw, it is important to recall the units. Additionally, units sold prior to Wal-Mart selling them could have been from higher quality materials. Wal-Mart is known for forcing the vendors to sell at a lower price point – well, to maintain profit margins, they cut the materials strengths down as much as possible. For example, I looked at bedsheets recently in wal-mart and they now sell 120-threadcount sheets! At 180, you get massive pilling. This is much lower quality and for the same price as the same sheet a few years ago at 180 thread count.

/rant off

Kirsten

From: nas-bounces@americakicks.com [mailto:nas-bounces@americakicks.com] On Behalf Of Peter Kurilecz
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:05 PM
To: NorthAmerican SoccerList
Subject: Re: [nas] Soccer goal recall

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Kirsten Tautfest <no1gc@hotmail.com> wrote:

These goals were for home use and a lot were sold at Wal-Mart. The story I linked to said they were made in China. Surprise anyone?

manufactured in China doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is that the product is being recalled after 1 death in ten years
when i first heard of the story I thought "dang how did the head get stuck?" but this piece explains it
"the strangulation death of a 20-month-old child who was found with his arm and neck tangled in the soccer goal net."

okay so where were the parents? who was in charge of the child? and for this we need to recall 190,000 units?

i'm sorry the child died, but I think this is liability law/ child safety gone amok. What if the child had been hit in the head by a hard kicked soccer ball and then died? would there be a safety recall of all soccer balls?

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Peterk
Richmond, Va