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Comment by airhead969

5 years ago

It stands to reason that selling arbitrary offshore products without liability insurance will come to an end. Almost every offshore brand and reseller has a throwaway name so they can just fold up and start over should anything happen.

No more cheap/counterfeit USB deathdapters https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0

Also, I think electrical, li-ion, and RF products will have to prove their safety and compliance certification paperwork.

Question is why this has not been done from the start? Was this a favour for China?

  • Every time I ask this question the answer usually is "it's a free market! If you don't want to buy a charger that's a death trap, just don't buy one! Why would Amazon be responsible for your own purchasing decisions"

    Or more recently a golden gem:

    "Making the sellers responsible for items will inevitably make them more expensive, and I don't want that"