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Oh dear.
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If you've not bought the cabinet yet, I strongly advise that you don't.
I haven't. What are the chances of that conforming to British Standards, I wonder...
Oh dear.
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If you've not bought the cabinet yet, I strongly advise that you don't.
That's the problem.I haven't. What are the chances of that conforming to British Standards, I wonder...
That's the problem.
The answer is "not high enough to make it worth taking a chance". And the whole CE thing applies, not just BS.
I am not tarring all Chinese manufacturers with the same brush, but the fact is there are many who play fast and loose with standards compliance, who lie about compliance, who fraudulently use CE marks etc.
It is, sadly, endemic, or endemic enough, to make it only sensible to eschew buying products directly from them. Yes, I know that an awful lot of what you buy these days is made in China, but there is a significant difference between buying from a seller who is within the jurisdiction of UK/EU laws and regulations, and is legally bound to only sell safe and compliant products, and buying from someone who is not only outwith all those legal requirements but is also in a country where respect for foreign rights and responsibilities and regulations is culturally almost absent.
FYI - although in practice you would never be at risk of any sanctions, technically if you were to buy that, and it did not conform to the necessary standards, you would have broken the law, for you would be the one who had imported it into the UK.
Not what I understood this to mean:Yeah. FWIW according to the listing the item was dispatched from the UK
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