Need to know
- Over the past two years, CHOICE has conducted several tests of products purchased from discount online marketplaces and found many safety failures
- Unsafe goods are pouring in from overseas platforms, despite breaching mandatory Australian safety standards in many cases
- In our second designated complaint to the ACCC, we’re calling for a general safety provision that stops unsafe products from being sold in the first place
Lots of words to say “fuck the poor”. Vague article trying to milk a stone for arguments against cheap things that poor people buy
Let us see: Independent Australian reseller buys 20 items from AliBaba, 3 are defective, they sell the remaining 17 at a 500% markup.
Large Australian company buys 200 units from the Manufacturer, sells the whole lot to Australian punters and 300% mark up and fucks the 30 customers around when 30 fail, until ACCC gets involved.
20 Regular Australians buys one item from AliExpress. For 17 of them, it works perfectly and for the remaining 3, they complain to AliExpress* and they get a replacement.
Choice magazine gets “tipped off” by Large Retailer and pretends to be protecting “the consumer” and “small business”.
Not really.
large Australian company buys original items from a trusted manufacturer, they cost more but are safe
independent reseller buys cheap copies of the same items, sells for 75% the cost of original items, but the copies are crap and unsafe
the people who are tipping off Choice and the retailers and the government about unsafe copies are the manufacturers of the original items
I buy from China a lot , you have to buy from trusted manufacturers and sellers