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Draw your own conclusions about the bloke buying a "genuine" battery charger from some place in Hong Kong off ebay but there's so much to hate about this article on the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55317414
The sensationalizingness of the article itself, the bodgit-and-scarper lawyers with an eye to the main chance, the campaigners who want ebay (and other selling platforms) to be responsible for their own greed and stupidity.
Whatever happened to caveat emptor? (See also the ppi "scandal")
And before anyone wades in, I do appreciate it must be utterly heartbreaking to lose your home in that fashion, whatever the reason. And to lose your cats to a fire too