Re: [RFI] ARRL to FCC...

[W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>]

How many people in how many locations will be needed to spot check all 
these items entering the country? Who exactly will be paying for this?
The other problem is that the maker has no clue who is buying their 
crappy light bulb or ballast.  Are we now going to have to give our 
names and contact information for every item we buy so that in the event 
something goes wrong chinafacturing can contact us all so they can 
refund our money for their crap or replace it?
Never ever ever going to happen.

Mike W0MU

On 3/29/2014 6:50 PM, Roger D Johnson wrote:
> An occasional spot check wouldn't bring world commerce to a halt! If 
> an item fails
> and it's found that the mfr left out critical filtering components, 
> the whole load goes
> back to China.
>
> On 3/29/2014 3:43 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On 03/21/2014 02:48 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
> > > Do you really think we need more gov't to be involved with inspecting
> > > and testing EVERY item that is made so that it does not hurt people,
> > > cause interference and on and on and on.  We would never see another
> > > product brought to market.
> > >
> > > We don't live in a perfect world and expecting something like this with
> > > a gov't that is 17trillion in the hole is crazy.
> > Proactively having the government check everything does seem
> > impractical, indeed.
> >
> > However, putting rules in place that oblige manufacturers
> > and/or importers to replace faulty equipment at their expense
> > (instead of stiffing the consumers) might be a good deterrent
> > to people sticking FCC stickers on untested equipment...
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