Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?

Re:Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters? by alpaca128 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:52AM (#39011014)

Are you sure it's the original label and not a fake?

Just recently a German tech channel reviewed a "gaming PC" sold on Amazon. The power supply had a fake CE label (aka it's illegal to sell in the EU) and the graphics card was a used Chinese crypto mining card that caught fire before they were done testing.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters? by actionfromafar on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:17AM (#39011197)

I don't think it was in earnest. The label could definitely be fake.

CE - labels are a mess. First of all, you can self-certify. So the label may be correct but the certification shady. Then you can of course just slap on a CE label on something which isn't even certified.

To add insult to injury, China made a virtually indistinguishable CE label which means "China Export". Thanks, China.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters? by stef25 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:24AM (#39011659)

You know there's another CE mark which stands for "China Export" right ? It just means it was manufactured in China and pretty much indistinguishable from Europe's CE mark.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters? by scq on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:37AM (#39011737)

That's a myth. There is no such marking as "China Export".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#%22China_Export%22

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Re:Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters? by stef25 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:53AM (#39014724)

wow ok, I stand corrected!

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