[schnitzelstoat]

It seems like quite a light punishment for selling such dangerous products that could literally kill people. The dodgy e-bike batteries have already been linked to several fires.

bigclivedotcom takes apart some of the Temu stuff on YouTube and some of the electronics is atrocious.

[1-more]

They sell adapters to turn oil cans into silencers. Each one should be a violation of the National Firearms Act and subject to up to a half million dollar fine https://www.atf.gov/media/25071/download Nota bened; these are not per-se illegal, but you need to sell them through a firearms dealer and pay for an ATF tax stamp and only in states that have not banned them/all NFA items.

[thenthenthen]

This. Same for the Chinese mainland app, some wild stuff like that being sold (firearms are highly regulated, but 1:1 copies seem to be ok, maybe because of the high level of regulation?)

[gambiting]

And hundred-watt lasers sold as "obstacle removers" that can blind people in less than a second from considerable distance.

[victorbjorklund]

Check will prowse. Western brands aren’t that much better.

[aDyslecticCrow]

But western brands can be sued or made liable with fines when a house burns down, which force them a minimum level of caution or risk-assessment when designing and selling their product. A random Chinese drop-shipper that vanish into smoke cannot, so all we can do is force the distributor take that responsibility in their place.

So Temu should be sued if a house burns down from a generic-brand e-bike that they imported and took money for.

[victorbjorklund]

How much money do you think is in the import companies that import the same crap and sell it to retailers? In Sweden you can have the company have 2500 usd in assets and sign all the papers. 2.5k won’t even cover the cost of the lawyer filing in court.