[Syonyk]

There shouldn't have to be any political reasons at all to enforce safety testing listings, and I would actively discourage anyone from taking that path regardless of their views on any given administration.

Far too many Chinese vendors just treat the "UL circle" as a required marking to forge, along with everything else they're forging on the items. http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-te... is a good teardown that highlights the problems with the fakes.

Amazon has had more than enough chances to solve this problem somehow or another, and it's clear they do not care about it at this point. They cannot claim ignorance after a decade of people highlighting the problems to them. As much as I don't like Walmart, I'd go to Walmart over Amazon for anything electronic (realistically, I'll buy NewEgg or B&H Photo for most things), because I have somewhat more faith in Walmart's supply chains to actually get me the thing I'm buying, vs "binned product fraud" that seems to be Amazon's bread and butter these days.

"Fraudulent markings on poorly designed, unsafe electronics that lack all the safety systems that the markings indicate exist" isn't a political problem. It's a basic consumer safety problem.

[ak217]

Walmart has the same exact marketplace sellers and the same exact problems as Amazon (unless perhaps you go to their brick and mortar stores). The only solution is to shop for only brands that are known to be good and have a reputation to protect, which of course doesn't scale very well beyond our personal preferences.

[reginald78]

While they make it a pain and constantly reset it, it is still possible to set the filter for Walmart only on their website. I'm not sure shopping for known good brands works since counterfeits are so prevalent and many third party sellers on walmart seem to just be running an Amazon reshipping service.

[Syonyk]

I'll go to one of their physical locations if I want something that plugs into the wall. It's likely to be actually what it says on the box, if I do that.