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Cool! Now do their crappy cords that are likely to burn down your house. Amazon Basics should be terminated with prejudice.
by jeffrallen 3y ago
Cool! Now do their crappy cords that are likely to burn down your house.
Amazon Basics should be terminated with prejudice.
- gruez 3y agoI checked a random amazon basics powerstrip and there's an ETL certification mark on them. As much as it's popular to hate on amazon for fakes/subquality products, your particular example is a poor one. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/I/61oYtdtgmVL._AC_SL1500_.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/...
- noodlesUK 3y agoFunnily enough AmazonBasics is probably the safest set of products on Amazon, as nobody but Amazon is allowed to sell those products. A brand name item might be a fake, but AmazonBasics is always the original (potentially crappy anyway) product.
- floatrock 3y agoEV Chargers then. Search for Level 2 EV Charger. The number of generic chineesium chargers available that will move 40amps of power in your garage without UL or ETL certification is mind-boggingly high. I've seen some advertise "UL Safety Report", which I assume is weasel-words for "We failed UL certification so we can't actually say the magic phrase 'UL Listed'". I've seen some claim to be UL Listed without being able to find them on the UL site. Sure, it's nice to buy a cheap chinesium drone, but something moving 40amps of power and heat in your home without accepted safety checks? That feels like something that should have some liability on the merchant's side when it burns something down.
- gruez 3y ago>EV Chargers then. Search for Level 2 EV Charger. The number of generic chineesium chargers available that will move 40amps of power in your garage without UL or ETL certification is mind-boggingly high. Sounds like you're talking about third party EV chargers. What does this have to do with amazon basics? Or are you pulling a motte and bailey, going from "amazon basics is going to burn down your house" to "third party EV chargers are going to burn down your house"?
- neither_color 3y agoI went down a small rabbit hole of Amazon electrical products once. You truly are better off at the big orange or blue hardware store for anything electric. Might cost a few bucks more but you don't have multiple suppliers referencing the same fake certificates and skimping on wire gauge to save a few cents.
- dboreham 3y agoNanny state socialism! The market should take care of dangerous products. Nobody is going to buy such a cord twice.
- coconut08 3y agowithout regulations the next differently branded unregulated cable might also burn your house down.
- techbrovanguard 3y ago[flagged]
- asveikau 3y agoI read it as sarcasm, but I guess you can't tell these days. (Where these days is at least 20 years) You won't buy such a cable twice because it will burn down your house and risk killing you, hence, you're not buying it a second time as a dead person. Obviously no flaws in that logic.
- drc500free 3y agoPoe's Law in action.
- gruez 3y agoNot the guy you replied to, but I downvoted that comment because I find sarcastic strawmans to be tiring and don't add to discussion.
- asveikau 3y agoI disagree with this. A comment like this can provide some amusement and joy, as well as legitimate criticism of people who unironically hold similar beliefs to the one parodied. I know the HN guidelines have had a "no joke" recommendation but it seems rather humorless (obviously) and can deny some form of humanity, the latter of which is rather unreasonable.
- astura 3y agoNone of the dick pills mentioned are AmazonBasics brand.