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I have always gotten certificates of compliance for my materials. Unfortunately, in the past few years some of my main suppliers have closed up shop. In my search for new suppliers I am finding many have no idea what I'm talking about with CPSC/CPSIA testing. It's really rather disturbing and disheartening. I currently have plenty of supplies, but I want to be prepared if I need to get testing done on future supplies just to keep the business going. So my questions are: -Have any of you ever gotten a material tested? -What was the cost? -How often does it have to be tested? -How long did the testing take? -Is there anything else I should know?
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Hello. I wanted to confirm something. I read that crochet patterns are for adults, so even if the pattern is for stuffies/plushies, because the product you are selling is a pattern, the pattern is an ADULT item. Therefore, a person selling patterns, even if for amigurumi, does NOT need to have their pattern tested for toy safety. Is this correct?
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If you make items for children and need regular plastic buttons of different colors, or giant buttons in different shapes Orientaltrading.com is CPSIA Compliant for all their children's items. Plus you can request the certificate for each item. As I find other CPSIA Compliant supply sites for children's products I will come here and list it. This is my second post, and I don't want to take up the board, so I will compile it all under here from now on. I know how frustrating it is to want to be able to make items but not be able to afford testing for every little thing. I am so happy some places are stepping up!
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Note that this is not a definitive list. Google does not publish a list! this is compiled by a blogger and has been edited. I have a shop on Artfire (who knows for how much longer, but that is another drama loaded story) and one of the features of listing products is an auto-scan of banned words, which is nice. There are hundreds of offensive words that are banned, but those I am not posting here of course! There are no banned words in Google...just in Google Base (which is the feed for Google Shopping) So here are some words to leave out if you want your listing to show up in Google Shopping. - free (including hyphenated words such as pet-free, smoke-free, hands-free, etc-free) Note: there is debate about this on blogs now, as some folks have been seeing "free" pop up in GS. Websites can ask google to un-flag their banned content thought, so some people with more clout can use words that others cannot. - sale - vacation - travel - travels - smoke, smoked, smokey - champagne - whiskey - beer - tobacco - cigar - cigarette - rum - rummo - wine - vine (supposedly because vine = wine in another language) - vineyard - camel (for it being a cig brand) - brandy - gin - Bordeaux - burgundy - ale - hemp (?) - absinthe - anime ( however "manga" is allowed) - strip - stripper - adult; including hyphenated words such as adult-size - sexy - butt - sex (Unisex has frequently been flagged and banned!) - affair - chick - sensual - gun - offensive language - knife/knives - nude - postage (or postage stamp) - collecting (collectible and collect are okay) - thorny - precious metal - muse - corsage - Z (as a stand alone letter) - double @ (i.e: L@@K, B@@BS) - fireworks - bank - FDA PRICE RESTRICTION: Google Base will not take items under US US $1.00. CAPITALIZATION KILLS!! Google Base now inactivate listings with excessive capitalization. Google requires items to be grammatically correct with proper title capitalization. also, Google Base loves real words, so avoid Tweet/Text talk at all costs. Triple check your spelling and your grammar. And feel free to use the Google AdWords tool to do Keyword reasearch to up your SEO while you are writing. The best words are going to be your Medium competition words.
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1106609775/anime-shoes-edward-elric-fullmetal?ref=shop_home_active_2
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