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I'd add anything plugged in unattended that could burn down your apartment. There are reports of fake UL certs.


> reports of fake UL certs.

When I visited Shenzhen a few years ago I marveled at how any certification label you needed (UL, CSA, ESA) were being openly sold by the roll by dozens of vendors.

They even had "PASSED" and "TESTED" labels with what appeared to be hand written (blue ink) signatures/initials - making them look like ones that a QA person on the line would stick onto the product after testing.


I've been through Shenzhen a few times and saw rolls and rolls of tamper proof hologram stickers (for Nokia and Microsoft and Sony and so on ...).

I did not see fake UL stickers ... however, I don't doubt that they are there.

Know this: a fake UL sticker is a criminally negligent act. Setting aside the appallingly negative morality of anyone that would deploy one, Amazon needs to be brought to regulatory action in the US and the EU for each and every single counterfeit UL device they ship.

This is a life and death issue. People should not pay, with their lives, for the refusal of Amazon to regulate this behavior.




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