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I was at the climbing gym yesterday and saw a notice that Petzl had found Chinese knockoffs of their gear being sold that failed at loads well below their state
by endgame 16y ago
I was at the climbing gym yesterday and saw a notice that Petzl had found Chinese knockoffs of their gear being sold that failed at loads well below their stated safety limits.
Shonky hard drives are one thing, but dodgy climbing gear is another.
- JonnieCache 16y agoChrist, thats terrible. I'll make sure to tell my climbing friends.
- noodle 16y agothis exists for sport fencing equipment, as well and resulted in some manufacturers from china being banned in europe.
- icegreentea 16y agoThis exists for -everything- Even razor blades. http://reviews.ebay.com/FAKE-GILLETTE-MACH3-amp-FUSION-RAZOR-BLADES_W0QQugidZ10000000006497974 http://reviews.ebay.com/FAKE-GILLETTE-MACH3-amp-FUSION-RAZOR...
- eli 16y agoI ended up with some of those once. What's annoying is that if they spent half as long making a sharp blade as they did making the packaging look real, I wouldn't even care that it's a fake.
- noodle 16y agodifference here was that they weren't fake or counterfit. they staged and bribed their way into getting their stuff certified, despite the production line being way under quality.
- yan 16y agoYup, when I caught that story on the climbing blogs, it really terrified me. Petzl has since released this chart for helping identify the knock-offs: http://www.petzl.com/files/fckfiles/file/PetzlAmerica/Counterfeits/PETZL_PRODUCT_AUTHENTIFICATION-US.pdf http://www.petzl.com/files/fckfiles/file/PetzlAmerica/Counte...
- noonespecial 16y ago"Lets just make fake stuff and let the climbers die. We'll make like $30 bucks!" How? HOW!?
- endgame 16y agoI don't know either. I couldn't believe it. Apparently knockoff medicine exists, too: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/world/asia/31chemical.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/world/asia/31chemical.html...
- noonespecial 16y agoI'd rather they just got guns and mugged people in alleys like honest criminals.
- zcid 16y agoI guess you never heard about the baby formula issues from a few years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal