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Furthermore, a smaller brand is likely long gone by the time such trouble turns up, so the recall never happens and you're on your own, my friend.
by myself248 1y ago
Furthermore, a smaller brand is likely long gone by the time such trouble turns up, so the recall never happens and you're on your own, my friend.
- amelius 1y agoAlso, you will not hear about it in the news.
- fhd2 1y agoAnd even if you do, you might have trouble recognising the brand you hear about in the news. The cheap brand names seem to be mostly arbitrary strings of uppercase characters.
- xattt 1y agoThe sad part is how most people will accept catastrophic device failure as a fact of life of their social standing, and feel like they have no recourse in being sold a dangerous product.
- Zak 1y agoIn most cases they may have no recourse. A bunch of these made-for-Amazon brands are just a middleman in China selling white label products from an unspecified manufacturer. Oberdorf v. Amazon means that Amazon can be sued in Pennsylvania, but does not establish liability for other jurisdictions. The third-party seller is almost certainly liable, but they're a shell company in a country that is difficult for the legal systems of western countries to access. The manufacturer might have some liability, but it's difficult to establish exactly who that is, and they might reasonably claim that they're not selling a finished consumer product, so their only liability is to their customer the middleman. I think making Amazon liable probably is the best solution, but the courts haven't done it for most of the USA, and I doubt congress will.
- bunderbunder 1y agoThough that starts to sound like an Onion headline: "'There's no way I can possibly avoid this,' says patron of the only store where this happens."