Should the sale of second-hand electrical items be banned?

start another thread on people dumping vast amount of clothes and buying more they dont need - and at least you cannot get a shock/electrocuted and dont catch on fire from buying too many clothes 😁

of course - and the extortionate charges what the professionals charge sometimes causes some people to "I will have a go myself" or their friends going "I've got a mate who can do that cheap for you" and can end up repairing it , but compromising its safety. I have bought a few used secondhand things here in Ireland and as I say I check them over when I get them home . I had a microwave oven once where someone had replaced the power lead to make it a longer lead , they had put 2 core lead on it and the earth wire was just cut off inside the microwave oven. Of course you could not see that just looking at the outside of it - so potentially it was un-earthed!

A used washing machine i bought from done deal or adverts I cannot remember now, someone had chopped off the moulded plug and put on a 13a plug and didnt do up the screws inside the plug ... so that could have eventually overheated and caused a fire. - there have been some other electrical things I have bought in the past that I am glad I give them a once over check before plugging them in.

Again , couldnt afford to buy new so forced to buy second-hand and then potentially put in danger of burning the house down or getting an electric shock just because of my finances.

you only choose to read what you want to read from my posts , you must do.

I cannot emphasise enough in my posts how many times numerously I have bought a used electrical item for myself and checked it over when I have got it home and someone has made a dodgy repair job on it or something is jeopardised its safety

why cant fridges be built like that any more? - well for a start it has dangerous refrigerant gas/chemical in it damaging to the environment (maybe you are not worried about that) and because items were not as mass produced years ago using the cheapest of materials and quite possibly every fridge that left the factory in them days were quality tested , whereas these days you will be lucky to get 1 out of every 100 fridge produced to go through stringent quality testing at the factory these days ... then of course people would not want to pay / would not be prepared to pay in todays money what that fridge cost in 1965 , (if i have my calculations/conversions right £1iep in 1965 = €25 in 2023 - I dont know if irish punts were out in 1965, or would that have been pre-decimalisation? ) - fridges are cheaper these days, mass produced, not all quality tested and use cheaper parts (thinner metal and plastic and parts that wear out quicker than a 1965 built fridge)

its got to be a cheaper way of making stuff , not making it easier for people repair. - you imagine years ago when things used to have screws in them and screwed together. Great for the repairer to take apart. You imagine the manufacturer now no screws needed and they can just 'clip' the case together , or glue it together or mould the outer casing . you might say ah come on screws are a minimal cost ... but you add all them screws up for hundreds of thousands of the item they produce .... soon adds up and adds to the cost of manufacturing the item

cheaper for them to make - plus it could also be a better way of doing it/ more reliable. the amount of times I have had to re-seat RAM in windows PC's and laptop is a lot ... because they are in sockets- in that resepect if the RAM is actually soldered onto the main board its one less thing to fail because it has not got a socket to fit into with poor contact. Had that been cheap chinese design sure you could get dry joints or not enough solder used or poor quality solder used ... but not on a quality apple product though the soldering would be top notch