So what about all those non compliant ROHS watches on Ebay?

Hello Jim,

Very sad. These guys wrote a little more on what failed:

That must be one of the biggest pork barrel projects there ever was. And I bet all this was, of course, installed with 100% organized labor.

Natch!

The concrete company was already under civil indictment for fudging the certification records. Knowing Romney, I'd expect some manslaughter charges as well.

...Jim Thompson

What a day! :(

That is because in this new touchy feely world the dumb public and media consider incompetence to be much less of a crime than failing to care.

So when faced with a difficult problem they will be praised for trying to solve it even if they fail and make matters worse.

When there are no problems they invent some to help with the increasingly difficult task of justifying their existence.

Oh well, as long as it's not louder than a 747. :)

- YD.

non-compliant that you

lead police and I

Pay the Chinese manufacturer to put a neat sticker on and some paperworks with it - same as those "CE marked" power supplies flooding the market. Nobody cares.

which...

Increases Tax revenue and requires more bureaucracy .... just drink the cool-aid mate ;-9

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I know, I know. Tin mining has environmental issues probably too but the clueless ninnies who introduced this farce weren't thinking very far !

Oh I nearly forgot. Lead free solder require more aggressive fluxes I gather and these are causing health in the workplace issues too ! I think the dross is more problematic as well.

Graham

I've often wondered about those I admit !

Graham

There is also that kind of "warranty" on low end items that works like this:

Small print: Return ($4.99 retail) item to us, together with a money order for $10.95 to cover shipping and handling...

Nobody sane is going to pack up an item, pay postage, go stand in line to get a money order for twice the purchase price and then send the stuff off (they'll have thrown the information-- printed on the awkwardly shaped packaging- out within the first day anyay). They can keep a few dusty units around for the nut or two that actually does that. Or just refund the original purchase price after said nutjob puts up a huge fuss and makes multiple long distance phone calls (demand proof of purchase for valuation?-- did you save the receipt?).

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Well, Romney wants to be the next President. Public hangings are always good television. ;-)

Romney is a Mormon... doesn't exactly play big-time in the leftist weenie Northeast ;-)

...Jim Thompson

range !

That's notwithstanding the 20' x 30' x 10' storage shed for all of the "original packaging" stuff. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

This type of fee is not allowed in California... see "Song-Beverly warranty act".

That's some turgid prose:

It sticks the (California) retailer with the costs, right?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

No, the manufacturer. The buyer pays one way shipping, and the manufacturer can't charge the bogus fees you mention. It doesn't seem to discourage them from offering warranties. Seems like a reasonable law.

What possible hold do they have over a manufacturer who is out of state, let alone one in Taipei or Guangzhou?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Hello Spehro,

If things become too egregious and the state attorney general gets on the horn this could lead to a situation where that manufacturer no longer has business in the state. Not a good thing.

"Eeyore" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com...

Actually the Americans were just waiting for the film units to arrive!!!

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chilllldruuuuuuun",

Naw, it just has to be constrained back to its proper sphere; seeing to it that corporations are held properly in check. This of course means keeping them properly small, and seeing to it that corporate executives bear the full brunt of any law that the corporation violates.