Are you trying to say that if we have a house fire while using some of our UK electrical items which we have brought to Australia with us that our insurance company would not pay up? If you are then you are wrong as after another spate of these type of posts we actually checked with several companies and all of them said of course we were covered.

As anyone can go to China and pick and choose exact replicas of all types of compliance marks from all over the world how could anyone who unknowingly purchased something that had a legal looking compliance mark and an Australian plug be expected to know it was not legal?

As op shops sell electrical items specifying that they have not been tested what makes you think somebody cannot sell their second hand items in the same way?

As a general principal you are right and I would never buy anything like a computer battery or phone charger from a Chinese seller but you do have to use common sense when you buy anything.