[londons_explore]

'barely functional' isn't fraud. And in most cases the cheapest made in china product is barely functional.

It's only deliberately selling nonfunctional products that would meet the definition of fraud.

[granshaw]

Plus selling barely functional products under a DONGJOY etc brand isn’t fraud, only trying to sell a counterfeit Prada bag under the Prada brand is (and only in Western countries at that)

[ungamedplayer]

No matter what it says on the tag , if it looks like Prada but it isn't from Prada, someone is getting frauded

[eru]

What do you mean?

For example, if I knowingly buy a knock-off, nobody is being defrauded.

(You can claim that Prada as a company gets damaged in the process somehow, that's probably fair. But it's not fraud.)

[Teever]

There are whole industries where it's unacceptable to ship 'barely functional' products -- aeronautics for instance.

We should be striving to expand this to more industries not the other way around.

[eru]

Different standards for different contexts.

Not everyone shares your preferences.

[Teever]

If you're selling something to someone who has a reasonable expectation that it is of a specific level of quality and it's not and you don't tell them that, it's fraud.