SAFETY 1ST Kids’ Safet y Accessories

[ericmark]

Will they never learn? Lidi offering "Socket Inserts, 6-pack" these are Fatally Flawed in British sockets. I accept the inferior German Schuko sockets don't have child resistance shutters built in, but the British sockets do. I bet the socket inserts are not marked BS 1363 so should not be used in British sockets so why sell them?

 

[winston1]

Lidl are not the only place selling these. Why pick on them? IKEA is another, also all the £ shops.

 

[RF Lighting]

Why not?

 

[ericmark]

I have never rated Ikea electrical stuff as any good and one expects pound shops to sell tat but I had considered Lidi and Aldi as being reasonably good shops. Maybe that's why it grates more I had expected better from them.

 

[winston1]

I have never rated Ikea electrical stuff as any good and one expects pound shops to sell tat but I had considered Lidi and Aldi as being reasonably good shops. Maybe that's why it grates more I had expected better from them.

The situation is that if something is legal to sell and the public are gull-able enough to buy it it will be sold whether the shops are reputable of not. Perhaps the most damning example is tobacco.

 

[ericmark]

Good point loads of shops sell tobacco.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

But not (any more) by claiming it has health benefits.

 

[JohnD]

What did Lidl say in reply to your letter of complaint?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

IKEA is another

Not any more.

 

[JohnD]

here you are, save the price of a stamp

https://ssl.lidl.co.uk/en/customer-service-contact-form-uk.htm

 

[JohnW2]

... but I had considered Lidi and Aldi as being reasonably good shops. Maybe that's why it grates more I had expected better from them.

I very much doubt that either (or most of the other outlets that sell them) have any personnel competent to know/judge/ascertain whether products (of this sort) they sell are safe or not.

Such products have been sold 'openly' for many years by many retailers and I'm sure that Trading Standards etc. will have had their attention drawn to them by 'pressure groups', and probably also individuals. I therefore can but presume that, whatever we may feel, their sale has not been judged to be illegal.

Kind Regards, John

 

[JohnD]

http://www.rospa.com/faqs/detail/?id=435 RoSPA

 

[Iggifer]

Wholesalers stock them so it's not really fair to pick on people who don't know any better!!

 

[JohnD]

have you complained to LIDL yet?

 

[JohnW2]

http://www.rospa.com/faqs/detail/?id=435 RoSPA

That is a very tame statement! "RoSPA does not consider it necessary to recommend the use of socket covers" does not even hint that they might be unsafe (or 'do more harm than good') - merely that they consider them "unnecessary". Certainly not a hint of a suggestion that their sale is, or may be, illegal.

Kind Regards, John