Customers Warned by Consumer Protection against Overseas Plug Converters
Keeping in view the increasing number of electrical accidents in consideration, the Consumer Protection has issued a warning to online customers who buy electronic appliances from overseas sellers. According to reports, the power adapters delivered along with the appliances do not synchronize with United States’ safety standards and could injure or prove to be fatal in worst cases. There had been a couple of such incidences pretty recently in which two consumers were affected adversely by electric shocks from power adapters that were a part of the packages they ordered online from across the borders. One of these accidents involved electric shocks from a travel adapter having multiple pin options. A higher official from the Consumer Protection firm confirmed that it is a solution that went wrong. The sellers of such appliances offer these additional power adapters to make their appliance compliant to use in the country but it only increases the risk. The problem is t...