[quickthrowman]

Electricity will kill you.

For the love of god, do not buy any line-voltage electrical equipment/devices from Amazon. I wouldn’t even buy 12v/24v/48v electrical parts from Amazon. It is not worth the risk of a house fire, no matter how much money you save. I don’t care if it claims to be ETL and UL listed, buy it elsewhere.

Amazon’s supply chain cannot be trusted when life safety is a factor.

Please buy electrical material/electrical devices from a retailer or supply house with a trusted supply chain, it isn’t worth killing your family to save a few bucks on an extension cord.

[ryandrake]

There are a couple of categories of stuff that you should probably just never risk buying on Amazon:

As you say, anything that plugs into AC mains >= 120V.

Anything that, were it to malfunction could cause a home fire or plumbing flood.

Anything that could lead to injury or death were it to fail (like car or boat parts, safety equipment).

Anything that your family or pets eat.

Anything mission critical that you depend on to run your business/income.

(any other ideas?)

[justinclift]

> any other ideas?

Anything medical. There was some talk of Amazon getting into (legal) drug supply, which could go very poorly.