Ok I am in the Uk and the CE certification I understand the necessity to control less than fit for purpose standards etc. Now I spoke with an exporter, yes I know here we go, in China. Have you got CE certification for this, I asked. Oh yes, well send me certificates. Certificates arrived, and as expected not what I thought. They are CE certificates for parts of the Product, electric bicycles by the way. Now that is BS and I said so, they tell me, But that is OK for you, the parts have CE certificate. Totally wrong and desperate I think, apart from the fact that the list of parts supplied were much less than the sum total of parts required to build a bike. I have come to the conclusion that these products are simply not there. Having no CE certificate is a waste of time and money, they will be seized as soon as spotted. Furthermore If I did supply one to a customer, for starters I would be hell of a uncomfortable lest something should happen to the user, secondly if something did happen to a user, I would be in serious trouble for supplying dodgy products.
Correct? I think so anyway.
Man these scammers are unbelievable, they try ever so hard to become your best mate!! and they just slit your throat. Money is the big temptation for them though, he made a mistake in admitting that he earns approx 130 euros a month! and they see all these dollars floating around and it's totally worth their while. It is a shame in a way that these guys ruin it all for all the legitimate traders, it's always the same, the few bad apples, or in this case the damned barrel has a lot of rotten apples right through. You know he even had the audacity to ask for the forum web site address so he could check it out,
yeah right, I have seen that happen before on other sites, it's like a plague of locusts going through, just a nightmare and maximum nuisance factor.
I guess the moral of all this is, as it is said time and time again, slow down and check to the max, and always err on the side of caution.
JonO