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"n Switzerland if you import dangerous junk and sell it in your store, you are liable." The same in the UK, and a lot of other countries. The retailer is respo
by graemep 1y ago
"n Switzerland if you import dangerous junk and sell it in your store, you are liable."
The same in the UK, and a lot of other countries. The retailer is responsible to the customer, the importer or wholesaler to the retailer.
> Of course the end consumer can also directly purchase from China as well but then it is their responsibility
Providing an easy workaround to safety regulations does not sound like a great idea to me. If you let consumers easily buy unsafe things it will lead to problems. Consumers often do not even realise that things do not meet standards, especially if they buy it through somewhere like Amazon.
You could argue that consumers should do their own checks, but then why have the regulation of what can be sold in the first place?
- comrade1234 1y ago> If you let consumers easily buy unsafe things it will lead to problems. It's Switzerland.... I can buy fireworks rockets as big as my leg at the grocery store just before Swiss national day.
- sschueller 1y agoWe have a big thing in Switzerland called "Eigenverantwortung". You need to take responsibility, the state will not babysit you at everything. You have the freedom to purchase abroad but at your responsibility.
- graemep 1y agoI like that. Here in the UK we have definitely gone too far far the other way, and I dislike the effect its having. A lot of people seem to want want the state to tell them what to do.