Here’s a way to get up to $35 in free toys!  Have you heard of Revolution MoneyExchange?  It’s similar to PayPal but with fewer fees.  It is a very secure way to transfer money and can now be used at No Strings Attached Toys.  It’s very easy to create an account and when you do, they will give you $25 to sign up.  Better yet, sign up through our referral button below and we will give you a $10 credit in our store on top of the $25 sign up bonus.  Pay for a purchase at No Strings Attached Toys using the $25 signup bonus from MoneyExchange and we will add the $10 credit, giving you $35 in free toys.  Even better, all purchases made at No Strings Attached Toys using MoneyExchange get a 5% discount on top of any other discount offered.

So here’s how this all works.  First, you sign up by clicking on this button. 

Your account will be credited immediately with a $25 bonus once your account is active.  You will then be ready to place your order using MoneyExchange.  When you checkout, select MoneyExchange.  We will then send you a transfer request for the amount due minus the $10 discount and minus an additional 5% just for using the new service.  If the amount due is less than $25 after our discounts on your introductory order, you will have paid absolutely nothing out of pocket.  Once you approve the transfer request, your order will ship.

The $10 discount is a one-time special for those referred by us.  The additional 5% discount is a special that will be available on any purchase completed using MoneyExchange until further notice.

For any questions, concerns, or additional information, please contact us.

We recently added over 100 new toys in our store and nearly 200 new toys to our online store.  To celebrate, all plush, puzzles, art supplies, and craft projects are on sale through the end of February.

All art supplies, craft projects, stamp sets, and bead sets are 10% off.  All puzzles, including jigsaw puzzles, peg puzzles, sound puzzles, and floor puzzles are 20% off.  All stuffed animals are 25% off.  In total, more than 300 products are on sale. 

Come into the store and say hello or shop online to see what’s new.

After 2 months of testing toys and other household goods for lead, No Strings Attached Toys has finally loaded some preliminary test results on it’s new website (still in BETA): UnleadedToyList.com.  Currently the majority of the nearly 400 initial products on the website are either products for sale at No Strings Attached Toys or products that have been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.  There are hundreds of results of past tests that still need to be loaded over the next week.

Right now, the selection of test results for many categories is very limited.  During this BETA phase, we encourage users to email requests for additional lead tests for a particular product, brand, or category of products.  We will test products that have been requested before testing random items.  If a product contains no lead, we want you to know about it.  If a product hasn’t been recalled, but contains lead, we want you to know about it. 

We will be conducting numerous product lead tests at major retail chains and will report the results in our lead test database.  If you take a look at the website, please send us your feedback to let us know how we’re doing.

Another backpack at Target tested positive for high lead content.

This High School Musical backpack tested between 3000-4000 ppm lead.  It is added to our list of Unofficial Recalls.

The black part of the wheel on this tricycle by Parents tested at more than 1500 ppm lead.

Because of the high lead content, this tricycle, found at Target, is added to our list of Unofficial Recalls.

The mouth on this Go Diego Go Card Game backpack was several thousand parts per million lead.

This is another product added to our Unofficial Recalls due to high lead content.

While at Target tonight, I noticed a recall notice posted about Curious George plush dolls.

I picked one of the Curious George plush toys up and tested it in the store.  The yellow jacket instantly lit up with more than 10,000 parts per million lead.

This particular model was not included in the recall so I will add it to my Unofficial Recalls.  A yellow jacket with more than 10,000 ppm is ridiculous.

Responding to recent inquiries for testing toys at home for lead, we have decided to offer in home lead paint testing for a fee.  We will always offer free testing for products brought into our store.  For travel expense and 15 minutes of testing, we will travel up to 10 miles from LaFayette for $25, up to 25 miles for $50, 50 miles for $100.  Testing fees beyond the first 15 minutes are $75 per hour.  For any location farther than 50 miles away, special arrangements may need to be made.  For any questions, call 315-677-9070 or 1-877-522-TOYS.

We are always happy to test your toys or other household goods for unsafe levels of lead for free in our store.  We recommend that you call ahead of time to make sure that we can accomodate you before you come in.

After finding toys with lead at a local church, we decided that we would travel to preschools, daycares and churches to test toys for lead.  We would even go to waiting rooms at doctor and dentist offices to test toys in waiting rooms.  Parents are able to keep safe toys at home, but they don’t have much control once outside the home.  In an effort to rid the area of lead tainted toys, we will test as many toys as possible in the community.  We will bring our portable X-Ray Fluorescence equipment to these organizations and businesses.  Parents, patients, and customers will have peace of mind, knowing that their children are only exposed to lead safe toys while at daycare, preschool, or in waiting rooms.

This lead testing service is offered for free within the Syracuse area for up to 30 minutes of testing.  For large quantities of toys requiring more than 30 minutes to test or for distances greater than 25 miles from LaFayette, we will have to charge for travel and testing time.  To schedule this service or for additional information, send us an email or call us at 315-677-9070 or 1-877-522-TOYS.

We purchased this Go Diego Go Backpack from Target in November.  When we tested it in the store, we found that virtually every component tested positive for lead.  Even the yellow canvas tested very high for lead content.  For this reason we are adding this to our Unofficial Recalls.

The vinyl material throughout has between 4,000 and 5,000 parts per million lead in it.  Different parts of the canvas material test between 1% and 2% lead (10,000 - 20,000 ppm).  This is far beyond the 600 ppm (.06%) allowable lead content.  Even the black plastic contains more than 1000 ppm lead.  We are requesting that the manufacturer, Global Design Concepts and Target stop selling this product immediately until it can be manufactured without lead.  Since the lead content is part of the material and not part of surface paint it may not technically fail federal safety standards but that certainly doesn’t mean that it should be allowed to remain on the shelves.

Test results are from a portable X-Ray Fluorescence device.