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Gibsons has urged families and consumers shopping for its ranges of games and puzzles to avoid paying the inflated prices certain items are being sold at on platforms like Amazon and eBay by sellers looking to unfairly capitalise on the growing demand for home entertainment amid the global lockdown measures. …
Read More »Toymaster backs BTHA’s Don’t Toy with Children’s Safety campaign in call to arms
The UK toy buying group Toymaster has thrown itself behind the BTHA’s campaign ‘Don’t Toy with Children’s Safety,’ an initiative launched to prompt the UK government to better regulate the safety of some toys sold via online platforms. The move arrives after the BTHA made the shocking discovery that 58 …
Read More »UK marketplace OnBuy puts discounting at centre of business strategy
The UK online marketplace, OnBuy.com, is revamping and enhancing its OnBuy Deals segment, highlighting the move as the “latest bold step in its plans to disrupt the marketplace giants,” like eBay and Amazon. The platform is ‘completely overhauling’ its Deals page and changing the way in which deals are featured …
Read More »UK parents expected to spend £5.5bn on toys this Christmas, says eBay
Of the 2,000 British parents polled, the average will spend around £392.82 on toys, with expectations for sales to hit £5.5 billion this year.
Read More »Amazon and eBay ‘must do more to protect consumers and brands’ says slime specialist Toys For Play
The rise in popularity of the slime trend in recent months has highlighted a slew of brands that use levels of the chemical borax deemed unsafe by EU toy trading standards.
Read More »“Much more to do” in fighting online fakes as TRAP issues one million notices against IP pirates
The firm has said that while one million infringement notices may seem like an extraordinary number, it represents only a fraction of the total infringing products pushed by criminal networks on platforms like Amazon and eBay.
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