I don't think anyone has suggested that there is a 'funny side'. There clearly isn't.When you have had a customer complaining about a cable that has melted on a legitimately supplied product you won't see the funny side. It has an external hard drive caddy, the mains power cable melted.
Exactly - and you are an 'expert', and even you could not detect a problem without taking the cable apart (hence presumably 'destroying' the product). So how on earth could one reasonably expect the proprietor of a ("we sell anything") high street shop, market stall or on-line buy/sell website to be able to detect that the item was unsatisfactory?!When I inspected it although the cable looked fine, the plug looked legal, had and had all the correct markings the cores inside the cable had less copper than speaker cable in them .
Kind Regards, John