Can anyone make anything that is any good anymore? (A lot of anys…I know) Seriously, these manufacturers need to slow down and go back to the old motto of “quality over quantity”.
It appears that the fault completely is at the hands of the parents and not the manufacturer(s). I see no reason why (except for deep pockets) the manufacturers have been brought into this when clearly all the fault is on the parents for not following the directions. Typical of these money grubbers to sue, so American.
Sickened,
Don’t get me wrong. This is a huge tragedy and I wouldn’t wish this type of incompetence on anyone. I have a 14 month old at home and as soon as I heard of this, I ran into my baby’s room to check the crib. But when do we stop blaming others for our own mistakes? Short of the having a Graco rep. come to your house and install the crib themselves, then have another rep double check it, then a third rep triple check it, and then one final check to make sure nothing was missed, then pay 10 times the actual value of the crib because you had 4 people work on it… When do you stop? When legitimate companies like Graco go out of business and we are forced to buy product from overseas? We all know how well that has turned out!
I truly feel pain for the families who lost their kids, but 3 deaths out of millions of recalled cribs (due to consummer negligence!) is not an epidemic. Nor is it the company’s fault.
If it’s possible to misunderstand anything it will be misunderstood by someone. How can you ever account for this with any set of instructions? Where does responsibility of the buyer begin?
Did you see that these cribs were made overseas? Our good friends the Chinese..
“Simplicity Inc., of Reading, Pa., manufactured all the cribs, which were made in China. The recalled cribs were sold under the Simplicity or Graco brands, from January 1998 through May 2007. The recall involves multiple models and model numbers.”
If the design is defective, who designed the cribs? If they were designed here and manufactured in China, why blame the Chinese? I think that our product quality is today what the Japanese products were considered to be in the 50’s. We are sacrificing quality to be competitive with other countries who have lower costs. Who would want to buy American the way we cut quality these days?
How about the stores selling the products here have product liability & have a trained technician that is required to assemble any items that can have a bearing on life or death if used improperly… This would make a huge difference in the liability, as the store would have cameras that show the person putting together the crib, then the finished product before it leaves the store… The consumer & the seller would know the quality of the product when it left their premises.
That my parents lived by and raised ten of us by: CAVEAT EMPTOR….but that tenet went out the window with the trial lawyer lobby…now even the village idiot can sue for being the village idiot. Nowadays, it always has to be someone’s fault or responsibility except the one person who can actually do something, like prevent, things like this: the SELF.
Can anyone make anything that is any good anymore? (A lot of anys…I know) Seriously, these manufacturers need to slow down and go back to the old motto of “quality over quantity”.
Is it the manufacturer’s fault that, “In all three deaths, consumers had installed the drop-rail side of the crib upside down”?
Yes, test everything before you put something on the market to consumers. You need to factor for human error.
It appears that the fault completely is at the hands of the parents and not the manufacturer(s). I see no reason why (except for deep pockets) the manufacturers have been brought into this when clearly all the fault is on the parents for not following the directions. Typical of these money grubbers to sue, so American.
Sickened,
Don’t get me wrong. This is a huge tragedy and I wouldn’t wish this type of incompetence on anyone. I have a 14 month old at home and as soon as I heard of this, I ran into my baby’s room to check the crib. But when do we stop blaming others for our own mistakes? Short of the having a Graco rep. come to your house and install the crib themselves, then have another rep double check it, then a third rep triple check it, and then one final check to make sure nothing was missed, then pay 10 times the actual value of the crib because you had 4 people work on it… When do you stop? When legitimate companies like Graco go out of business and we are forced to buy product from overseas? We all know how well that has turned out!
I truly feel pain for the families who lost their kids, but 3 deaths out of millions of recalled cribs (due to consummer negligence!) is not an epidemic. Nor is it the company’s fault.
If it’s possible to misunderstand anything it will be misunderstood by someone. How can you ever account for this with any set of instructions? Where does responsibility of the buyer begin?
Did you see that these cribs were made overseas? Our good friends the Chinese..
“Simplicity Inc., of Reading, Pa., manufactured all the cribs, which were made in China. The recalled cribs were sold under the Simplicity or Graco brands, from January 1998 through May 2007. The recall involves multiple models and model numbers.”
I will never again buy anything made in China. This is appalling.
Good luck with that ES. You may be shocked, and scared, of all of things you use daily that came from China. Take a look.
If the design is defective, who designed the cribs? If they were designed here and manufactured in China, why blame the Chinese? I think that our product quality is today what the Japanese products were considered to be in the 50’s. We are sacrificing quality to be competitive with other countries who have lower costs. Who would want to buy American the way we cut quality these days?
How about the stores selling the products here have product liability & have a trained technician that is required to assemble any items that can have a bearing on life or death if used improperly… This would make a huge difference in the liability, as the store would have cameras that show the person putting together the crib, then the finished product before it leaves the store… The consumer & the seller would know the quality of the product when it left their premises.
Our lawsuit lottery system is killing our ability to compete in the world.
That my parents lived by and raised ten of us by: CAVEAT EMPTOR….but that tenet went out the window with the trial lawyer lobby…now even the village idiot can sue for being the village idiot. Nowadays, it always has to be someone’s fault or responsibility except the one person who can actually do something, like prevent, things like this: the SELF.