Chineese car seats in the US on Ebay. Is this Allowed?

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wendytthomas

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No, they're not legal to use. But the seller is in Shanghai, so they're perfectly allowed to sell them. I don't know if there's a Chinese ebay. Nevermind, yes there is. http://www.ebay.com.cn/ Anyway, he can sell Chinese seats from Shanghai. Maybe I'm a collector of foreign seats and I'm just going to put it in my attic or in a room in my house. I can legally buy it then. It's simply illegal to use because it doesn't pass US testing. And even though those seats look different, they don't look different enough to be so obvious to an overworked, underpaid, uneducated police officer anyway, so I doubt anything would come of it in the first place.

Wendy
 

wendytthomas

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Hey Wendy, Hmmmmm...maybe that means they have seatbelts AND use carseats in Shanghai?!:)

hehe I was thinking that.

Course they have the same in Japan, but they don't USE them. A good friend of mine is Japanese and she says that they routinely see kids, babies on up, on laps or just loose in the car. Or they might use an infant seat and then go straight to the seatbelt. Or have five adults in the car with four of them holding babies. They have them available, they just don't use them. Her family can't figure out why she's so paranoid about carseats.

Someone on my playgroup board actually suggested that since it is possible to hire taxis for the day (they'll drive you 2+ hours to a town, wait while you do your sightseeing, then drive you back, or even just around town they'll wait) that we could do that if we needed to and I could put Piper's seat in once and use it all day. Still hoping to avoid that, though. The language barrier to explain that and haggle over price would be awful, not to mention I'm not too keen on leaving her seat with some random guy in some random town in a car that looks like a thousand others.

Wendy
 

Yoshi

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Someone on my playgroup board actually suggested that since it is possible to hire taxis for the day (they'll drive you 2+ hours to a town, wait while you do your sightseeing, then drive you back, or even just around town they'll wait) that we could do that if we needed to and I could put Piper's seat in once and use it all day. Still hoping to avoid that, though. The language barrier to explain that and haggle over price would be awful, not to mention I'm not too keen on leaving her seat with some random guy in some random town in a car that looks like a thousand others.

Wendy

Yeah, that would worry me too- unless you had an English-speaking driver and could totally trust him.

And sorry we hijacked this thread!
 

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