![]() But if Amazon is out of stock on that, they will silently and automatically substitute the same "SKU" from an Amazon Marketplace seller - and the Marketplace seller may be selling counterfeits. Second is, the listing may say "shipped from and sold by Amazon Proper" and Amazon may normally stock product legitimately sourced from Actual Leviton. First telling the difference in listings. Talk to your local electrical supply house, and tell them you are sick of being overcharged by Home Depot (that puts them on notice that you are price conscious).Ĭertainly never touch an "Amazon Marketplace" product again with a 10-foot pole.Īmazon proper is supposed to be OK, but two problems. In the future, don't buy electrical parts online they are price prohibitive because they're usually too low value to justify shipping. He will tear it down in a video and show you all the ways it would've tried to kill you. If it's too late to send it back, or if they tell you to keep it, send it to Big Clive on YouTube. You were ripped off, request a return based on "not as described" and send it back. The profits are insane, and they don't even care that you return it don't be surprised if they tell you to keep it. That's how they set prices: expensive enough to look legit and cheaper enough to make you buy. Note the price is only a little bit below the price of a UL listed domestic unit from a reputable builder that is actually designed for that purpose and built properly. (notice how you see the identical units over and over in the Alibaba search results). So you have ten(s) of people pretending to be hundreds of companies all selling the same stuff from the same 1-3 Chinese junk mills. Probably did all this from a computer in East Asia. He paid $6 for the units, $2 each to have them individually packaged, and sent to the Amazon fulfillment warehouse (for which he pays about $3 per unit), and so they're in Prime. He asked the builder "hey, can you give me USA sockets?"* The builder said "sure". This scammer found this particular one on Alibaba, a bastion of this type of spew. Many Chinese counterfeiters market products designed to look like legitimate product, but of course are made very, very cheaply. Most equipment breezes through this because manufacturers know what they're doing and they're either using the same methods as were approved before, or use components with the RU mark which means UL pre-approved the components. Listed means manufacturers and importers must send off specimens of the items to Underwriter's Laboratories (UL) or equally competent testing lab, where they do destructive testing well beyond BigClive levels. In the USA the system is not promise based, but requires every piece of equipment be listed. If Joe EuCitizen mail-orders it, and it ships direct from China or via Amazon's fulfillment center (for some reason), Joe EuCitizen is the importer in EU law, and Joe has no chance of complying. or to be more precise, they are a legal promise by a bricks-and-mortar business inside the EU who manufactured it there or took responsibility for legally importing it, that it complies. ![]() The CE stamp and RoHS stamp are counterfeited. Heck, it doesn't even comply with EU safety standards. ![]() If you think that doesn’t matter, watch Big Clive's teardown videos on Youtube, you'll get religion right quick :) These things don't come within a mile of US safety standards. Often, they also have goofy brand names that sound like Ikea furniture names, but you can't count on that. That means "Amazon Marketplace" flea market. Note the " Sold by some_random_name and Fulfilled by Amazon" part. See what you had to notice to even spot it? A step down from eBay, even, because this garbage hides amongst legitimate products. You bought it off Amazon Marketplace, the world's biggest junk shop.
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