We an supply Emergency Light

[ketter chan]

hello, we are the factory of emergency light in China. You can visit our web

and scan it.

Ketter Chan(ketter80(at)hotmial.com)

[Matt Beard]

Not only do the regulars of this group take a very dim view on spam, but I very much doubt that anyone is stupid enough to buy safety equipment from someone so incompetent that they can't even spell their own e-mail address correctly.

[nrh]

In news: [e-mail], Matt Beard scribed:

Not to disagree with the spam element, but how well do you speeky da chinese? We'll soon be grovelling to them for our business, you know.

N.

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to be fair, as the poster is posting from Guangzhou in china, I suspect his engrish is better then your mandarin /whatever :-)

[Andy Hall]

We already are....

[Matt Beard]

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[Matt Beard]

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[mcbrien410]

Excuse me Waiter but this Chicken is very rubbery...........

Ah, fank you vely much Sir.

(Benny Hill 1965)

[T i m]

I think Matts point was the 'hotmial' bit (which could easily be a typo anyway) but more than the Chineese English thing, don't they (also?) use a completely different script (loads of pictures n that)?

I worked on a 'Eastern' copy of Windows once and dispite many years with Windows could hardly make out what was 'Yes' or 'No' ... !

As mentioned .. you might soon be calling Ketter 'Mr Chan, Sir' .. ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

p.s. Knowing how well we cope in the UK when we get 1" of snow I was actually considering some 'emergency lighting' of some sort .. might beat stumbling about in the dark looking for the torches with flat batteries [1] or candles and the empty match box ;-)

Wasn't that the dictionary definition of 'a Torch' ...

"A metal tube used for storing flat batteries" ... ;-)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "ketter chan" saying something like:

No ta.

[zaax]

Not ce marked. They can't be imported into the EC

[Andy Hall]

- It's the EU these days (still the same silly sods in Brussels though)

- They can be *imported* without a CE mark, e.g. by an individual for own use. They can't be *sold* within the EU.

[manatbandq]

They can be both imported and sold within the EU. The importer is responsible for CE marking and proving conformance to the relevant regs (safety, LVD, EMC, whatever). The CE mark can be on the packaging or instructions, etc. It doesn't have to be on the item itself.

MBQ

[Andy Hall]

In fact it is the manufacturer or the importer (explicitly the organisation placing the goods on the market). The illegality would come with placing the goods on the market - i.e. selling them without a CE mark.

In different EU countries, the mechanism for policing this varies. In the UK it is done by Trading Standards and is typically complaint driven, therefore little generally happens. In Germany, it is the responsibility of Customs and they carry out checks during import. Therefore, as a manufacturer, one generally makes sure that the mark is on the outside of the carton because it generally then reduces the likelihood of the packaging being opened to check the goods.

In practice, little happens unless something bad happens.

[Owain]

However, if they're not CE marked wouldn't it be a breach of both Building Regulations and Wiring Regulations to actually use them?

Owain