idk if satire of not but either way that is pretty hilarious 
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no, for real
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Wow lmao itâs the same symbol and everything
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Yes. The same experieces I have.
According to Wikipedia thatâs apparently an urban myth stemming from a badly proportioned logo.
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No it is not in the EU
CE is selfcertifiable, its up to the seller to make sure theyâre up to par. But anyone can say theyâre CE until proven otherwise.
CE is the easy part(medtech is abit more strict), make manual/instructions and dont sell stuff that obviously wont fulfill the requirements. If my dad can do it a 65, anyone can.
EMC certification is a bigger worry. youâd be slapped with hefty fines in EU if you can show a good lab result if someone asks, as a consumer youâre within your right to ask for one. If they canât supply it its recommended to report said vendor to applicable authoraties. A standardized EMC test can then be carried out on the product in question and if it fails you could end up having to recall all of your previously sold products + you have to pay for the test, which is atleast 10k euro. Plus fines ontop of that.
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Here in Denmark CE is mentioned specifically in the legislation that legalize esk8. In order for an esk8 to be street legal it needs to have a CE cerfication.
I asked the ministry if one could build his own esk8 and use that on the streets. Just like we see it when people are putting together bicycles from parts they get different places.
That is ok as long as the important parts are CE certified. I didnât go further into what they consider important parts.
What I took away fromthis, is that if you want to sell esk8 in Denmark that are street legal it needs a CE certification. But there is no esk8 that fulfill the requirements for being street legal here. The 20km/h max speed sort of rule out everything.
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There must be a way even for Chinese boards to reach and lock to that speed limit.
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Why is this something that (seemingly) only china does? What is it about china that makes them scoff at lying and scamming?
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I have seen sneaky production changes show up with manufacturers in a number of countries aside from China. Anywhere that has limited liability to their customers + a desire to profit is going to encounter this. Humans are greedy.
The reason we donât see it as much with local manufacturing is largely just because of increased liability & costs. You can get sued for failing to deliver product to spec, or just have the shipment outright rejected at your cost. Consumer/Business protections are always higher within your local government and drop the further away geographically and judicially we get.
People like to throw Chinese manufacturing under the bus but itâs really just scale/exposure to it and China is one of the largest centers of manufacturing with the least amount of oversight/accountability due to lack of cooperation between our countries.
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No oneâs complaining about German manufacturingâŚ
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Having worked with a rather large German technology company rhyming with⌠Thiemens, I have a few complaints
And same reason: higher liability, higher regulation, higher cost.
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Whatâs up with the Germans, do they treatment you like their products are too good for you?
This is what Iâm saying. China has no liability. Very much buyer beware buyer be fucked
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I think once an ocean or 2 are separating you from your supplier/manufacturer, they wonât treatment you right.
I think when your government is perfectly fine with erasing history and lying to cover up atrocities that that kind of behavior will trickle down to all the companies within that country
Easy to suppress consumer issues when thereâs no freedom of speech
Whoâs going to call out the government for lack of consumer protections when calling out the government reduces your social credit score preventing you from doing most things
Democracy and liberalism are objectively superior to whatever they got going on over there
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True, but there are scammers in people living in
western democratic countries too.