ONTHEWEI is giving full refunds on about 2,140 baby bath seats sold on Amazon.com in April 2026 for $40 to $50, after the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced recall 27-018 on October 8. The agency says the seats violate the mandatory federal standard for infant bath seats, can tip over during use and carry a risk of serious injury or death from drowning. No incidents or injuries have been reported.

What the refund is worth and what comes first

The refund value is the purchase price, so each buyer is due back the $40 to $50 the seat cost. The CPSC recall notice says to stop using the seat immediately and email ONTHEWEI at [email protected] to ask for the refund. The company that sells the seats is Hubei Youhong Trading Co., Ltd., doing business as ONTHEWEI, of China.

Money arrives only after the seat is destroyed. Under the notice, an owner must write “RECALLED” in permanent marker on the front, remove the back rest and arm restraints, cut the three suction cups on the underside, and email a photo of the marked, destroyed seat to the same address. Only then should the seat be thrown away.

So how does an owner collect, and what has to happen to the seat first? The order matters: the photo is the proof ONTHEWEI asks for, so a seat that goes out with the trash before the picture is taken leaves the owner with nothing to send. Anyone who bought one of these seats in April, whether a parent, grandparent or relative buying for a baby, should do the steps in the order CPSC lists them and keep the order confirmation from Amazon.

CPSC posted this recall on October 8, 2026, and parents and grandparents who bought a seat on Amazon in April are the ones it catches.

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How to tell if a seat is part of the recall

CPSC describes the recalled seats as ONTHEWEI-branded baby bath seats with detachable restraint arms and suction cups on the underside. They came in gray, pink, blue and mist green. A label on the back reads “Model No: MY002” and “Date of manufacture: 2026/1/10.”

The agency lists the remedy as a full refund, not a replacement or a partial credit. The notice does not set a deadline for asking. Because the notice names no end date, there is no stated cutoff to count down to, and an owner who still has the seat can simply do the steps now.

Check the label before cutting anything. The refund conditions apply to the seat described in the notice, so a seat without the MY002 model number on the back is not covered by these steps, and destroying it would only cost the owner a usable product. At $40 to $50 a seat, the refund is a modest sum for each buyer. The steps are short, and the refund is the full price paid.

Two other CPSC recalls that pay back money

Other recalls posted in the same October window carry money too. The Gobi Heat rechargeable hand warmer recall, number 27-009 and dated October 1, covers about 5,500 units and offers a refund of the purchase price plus 20 percent of that amount. The Romorgniz six-drawer dresser recall, number 27-020 and dated October 8, covers about 12,078 dressers, offers a full refund and cites a violation of the STURDY Act. Like the bath seat, it comes with destroy-and-photograph conditions. Each notice lists its own steps, so the instructions for one recall do not carry over to another.

The CPSC keeps every current notice on its recalls page, with the remedy listed on each one.

Collecting a refund that requires destroying the seat first

The free route is the CPSC notice itself and an email to the company. Start by finding the order in Amazon’s order history and confirming the seat is the recalled model, with the Model No: MY002 label on the back. Then take the seat out of use.

Do the destruction in this order: mark “RECALLED” on the front in permanent marker, take off the back rest and arm restraints, cut each of the three suction cups, and photograph the result so the marking and the cuts are both visible. Email the photo to [email protected] along with the order details, and keep a copy of the email that was sent.

Keep the email thread and the order record until the money shows up. If a refund does not arrive, the CPSC notice is the document that sets out what the company agreed to do: a full refund, with the steps above.

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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.