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You do not have to pay money to see which ones are deadly. You can see all the safety alert information on which ones are unsafe on the product listings[1] as w

by Hates_ 8y ago

You do not have to pay money to see which ones are deadly. You can see all the safety alert information on which ones are unsafe on the product listings[1] as well as individual product pages[2]. I've been involved in the product safety work at Which? and they've gone to great pains to make sure that this was publically and easily available information. They are also running a huge campaign on product safety[3]. [1] https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/carbon-monoxide-detectors https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/carbon-monoxide-detectors [2] https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/carbon-monoxide-detectors/unbranded-and-dangerous-carbon-monoxide-alarm https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/carbon-monoxide-detectors/un... [3] https://campaigns.which.co.uk/product-safety/ https://campaigns.which.co.uk/product-safety/

mrleiter 8y ago
Oh, my bad. Thank you! :)
- Hates_ 8y ago
  But, you've made me see something I had not spotted before in that you _don't_ see what is unsafe for free on our "don't buy" pages[1]. I have raised this right now with the team! [1] https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/carbon-monoxide-detectors/article/recommendations/which-dont-buy-carbon-monoxide-detectors https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/carbon-monoxide-detectors/ar...
  - makomk 8y ago
    Not only that, the Don't Buy page actively asks people to pay up in order to find out which carbon monoxide detectors are deadly: "Compared with Best Buy carbon monoxide detectors, the Don't Buy alarms that we've named and shamed on this page just can’t be relied upon to detect the gas and sound the alarm. In our tests, the Don’t Buys failed to detect carbon monoxide in more than one-in-three of our tests. This adds up to 26 failures out of 72 tests. By contrast, the Best Buys passed all 312 of our carbon monoxide gas tests. The potentially deadly CO alarms all claim to have passed the relevant EU safety standard, EN 50291. But repeated failures in our lab tests – which mirror those of the safety standard – lead us to doubt that they actually did. And we’re as concerned about several lookalike models as we are about the three models that failed our tests. To find out which models are Don't Buys, as well as our Best Buy carbon monoxide detectors, sign up for a £1 trial to Which?"

by Hates_ 8y ago

mrleiter 8y ago

Oh, my bad. Thank you! :)

Hates_ 8y ago
But, you've made me see something I had not spotted before in that you _don't_ see what is unsafe for free on our "don't buy" pages[1]. I have raised this right now with the team! [1] https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/carbon-monoxide-detectors/article/recommendations/which-dont-buy-carbon-monoxide-detectors https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/carbon-monoxide-detectors/ar...
- makomk 8y ago
  Not only that, the Don't Buy page actively asks people to pay up in order to find out which carbon monoxide detectors are deadly: "Compared with Best Buy carbon monoxide detectors, the Don't Buy alarms that we've named and shamed on this page just can’t be relied upon to detect the gas and sound the alarm. In our tests, the Don’t Buys failed to detect carbon monoxide in more than one-in-three of our tests. This adds up to 26 failures out of 72 tests. By contrast, the Best Buys passed all 312 of our carbon monoxide gas tests. The potentially deadly CO alarms all claim to have passed the relevant EU safety standard, EN 50291. But repeated failures in our lab tests – which mirror those of the safety standard – lead us to doubt that they actually did. And we’re as concerned about several lookalike models as we are about the three models that failed our tests. To find out which models are Don't Buys, as well as our Best Buy carbon monoxide detectors, sign up for a £1 trial to Which?"