His adrenaline definitely kicked in when the fire started. See the rigid, tense shaky movement of his hand as he was thinking what to do. Which means he likely has never planned for a fire hazard at his bench which is surprising to me. I hope it's not confidence that he knows what he's doing and will always avoid that possibility
The black smoke and black floating particles in the air are a clear sign that the "air purification" is in progress. In fact, if left to it's work, the device can purify your whole house down! As an added bonus, if you inhale those black "purification ions" that were floating around, they can set to work "detoxifying" your body.
Hahahahahahah, yeah, you just use the classic words for scam products. Stuff like: "Particles", "ions", "waves", "energy shield", "detox", "inverted sugar", "vegan" (yeah, i saw this on an electrical appliance in Temu)... They always find new stuff.
@@The_Hanged-ManI assume “invert sugar” (that’s how I’ve usually seen it written) is just another name for dextrose, which is the mirror image of sucrose, and is indigestible but also not very sweet - it’s used as filler in Splenda, since the sucralose is hundreds of times sweeter than sucrose. (Inverse compounds don’t necessarily taste similar at all - for example, the flavor compounds in spearmint and caraway seeds are inverses of each other.)
Nice booming! 😁 that’s very strange that they go to such an extent to make such nice looking case and provide circuits and such for a fake dangerous garbage!
My theory is that they were producing legit ionisers and had some simple production test that crudely verified the output of the ioniser, so when they cost reduced the actual HV module out of the device they still needed to pass their production tests, and a live mains output produced a PASS on their test jig, so everyone is happy 😂
You know it's going to get nuts when Clive says "there is one more experiment I wish to try..." because you know that's the last experiment the particular device will be involved with.
The mark of a true engineer is the lack of panic when something goes awry. More concern shown for the innocent light bulb than the Ebay rubbish. Thank you for bringing this to our attention
@@DarrenBoxhall startled perhaps but his hands didnt tremble once, point OP was trying to make is that if you hear the big bang it probably didnt kill you xD
I thought those lamp testers were as dangerous as they could be, but the engineer behind this has managed to advance the state of the art. I'm impressed.
Firstly - I cant believe someone actually created this lethal monstrosity. Yeah, OK - they make fake/not working stuff but - there's "Non-compliant" and then there's this - deliberately dangerous. Secondly - Clive's response to the unplanned thermal event was priceless.....
Ironically, immediately after the fire I'm interrupted by an Ebay Ad guaranteeing the authenticity of name brand items and showing a lab tech looking at a watch. Maybe they should look at some home electronic items as well.
In most movies and cartoons, good triumphs over evil. Most people enjoy such movies and cartoons. It is because people love good. Study, work, exercise, illness, etc. cause stress. Stress creates an evil mind and leads to evil actions. Most people are good, but stress breeds bad thoughts and bad behavior. Give peace to all people by freeing them from study, work, exercise and disease.
That a company can knowingly produce and sell a product like this that can easily kill a child (let alone an adult!) is disgusting! Their entire mgmt structure should be arrested and thrown in prison.
Knowing how these things go, they probably all live the high-life. It comes at a price though, since if they do end up getting what they deserve, the places that these usually come from tend to be a bit more hardcore with punishments.
Yes but the entire management structure is just Uncle Wong in his pig shed with his smart phone and soldering iron and a bunch of crap he bought from the market.
It’d be genuinely interesting to interview one of their engineers to understand why they go to such lengths to build a fake product when it would have been just as easy to produce the real thing
they might just be getting rid of factory reject parts. still i'd hope they would at least, you know, try to not kill you or burn down your house once they scammed you
@@maw9406 Does make you wonder how many of these things have literally killed someone or burned down their house. Like those shitty electric scooters and hoverboards than burst into flames
@@kkobayashi1 Yeah you could be right. That said Aliexpress are pretty hot these days if you report a seller. I've had a few issues with garbage products and they were quick to step in and either refund or force a replacement. imo Aliexpress is better than eBay from a buyers perspective these days
I bought a welding/ plasma machine for about £200 from eBay, brand new sealed in box. After using it for a while I noticed the extension lead getting very warm and also tripped the fuse in the extension a couple of times. Out of curiosity I wanted to see why the fuse on the welders 13amp plug didn't blow. After levering out the fuse holder, it was hot glued in place, I found out why. There was a solid brass bar soldered across the fuse contacts.
This is efficient on so many levels. You'll never have to buy another fuse again because 1) It'll never blow or 2) You'll be dead and therefore not have to worry about it..
"Noooo, I 've blown the fuckin lamp up" LOL! I love your unscripted reactions. Even though I knew the file across the mains was coming, I still jumped and yelled when it blew the fuse, lol. Great stuff :)
@@DocksOfFoxes obviously; they're cheap *because* they're fake and dangerous. I never said it wasn't a good deal. Well, I guess it's not a very good deal if you die in a fire but just put some of the savings into a good smoke alarm.
That "...imagine someone was to bridge these contacts with this metal file..." portion had the gravity of a 'famous last words' moment and I laughed harder than I've done in months! Thanks, Clive
The reason the plastic burned is yet another non-compliance - they didn't use flame retardant plastic. Admittedly the flame retardant contains some kind of noxious bromine compound so the standard plastic is more environmentally friendly, so long as it doesn't burn your house down.
Did the product fraudulently emboss an electrical product safety certification logo from a known testing laboratory such as TUV SUD, UKCA, BSI Kitemark, or INTERTEK ?
It’s because of you Clive that when I recently needed a set of “waterfall” LED lights for a 3D print project, I very carefully scrutinised my eBay purchase. There was a rattle in the mains adapter that came in the kit, which turned out to be a piece of broken plastic from inside the adapter casing, but more worrying was the tiny circuit board that was not insulated and loosely sitting on top of the exposed 240V mains pins. That was potentially too spicy for my liking, so I removed the mains adapter and spliced in a USB cable, and now use an old Apple USB wall adapter. The worrying thing is that whilst I along with your other viewers know to be very critical of eBay electronics, too many other people do not!
And thats why i'm very annoyed that factories have started to glue and resin fill devices so that you cannot get inside of them easily to see what is going on.
there was a news story about a girl my age whose dad had bought a knock-off iphone charger and she ended up paralyzed from touching the charger and a radiator at the same time. That taught me to be careful with cheap electronics...
I think the reason it arced so easily the second time is because that initial spark from the short across the lightbulb ignited the soot from the previous short. Fire can sometimes work a bit like a conductor, a least more of one than air.
i think its also entirely possible that the lightbulb short melted some of the lightbulb onto the electrodes, effectively extending them. you can see at the end that the arc took a chunk out of the contact on the bulb
After a long day at the office reading up on work site safety procedures in ATEX environments... You can not imagine how much joy and laughter I have had from your video. I am still all smiles as I write this. TY so much Clive. Thank you.
I love the fact you are more angry at your lamp being blown up than the fake product potentially killing people or burning the house down 👍 Very much like me getting angry at my 10p car fuse popping everytime it rains but not overly concerned at the broken wires between the alternator and battery 🤣 Keep up the good work
I've fallen down many a youtube rabbit hole before; this is the first time I've fallen into "Accidental Chinese Bomb Defusal". Well done, sir. Well done.
My two favourite moments in this video Clive saying "you'll be glad to know, I'm going to Electroboom it" and the lovely shower of ash created after the fire. Also it's horrifying to think that people can just buy these and not have a clue what danger they're plugging in :(
Fun fact: when you burn carbon fibre it produces microscopic shards that look a hell of a lot like asbestos dust particles under a microscope. Hope he was wearing a mask.
@@phydeux Huh? What? I have a $3 charger with 4 usb outputs and "fast charging"(not) that sounds very eligible for what you are saying. Can you elaborate please?
This was by far you're best video ever. Putting the house (Possibly the whole block) in the dark. Then sets nearly the building on fire. Remain fully calm en start pulling the socket out. So lessons learned. One put a extra fuse/eart-disconnect switch on you're test line. Maybe use a switch so you don't have to grab in the burning test object. Ow and use a incandescent lamp for testing. Or non of the above and we''ll get some more video's to enjoy. Be safe.
So you're telling me that instead of buying cheap ebay junk I could just as well have stuck two graphite sticks into my outlet and got pretty much the same result? Neat 👍
it actually gives me a headache trying to comprehend why anyone would go to such extraordinary lengths to produce something fake and so dangerous. i believe you're correct that they must get some sort of kicks out of making it. insane, truly.
@@maximilianrpm2927 But why not make something that just does nothing? They could just *not* connect these "emitters" to live wires. Instead, they took the extra step to make it deadly. Let it have a little LED and perhaps some PCB scrap that's not connected to anything inside.
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 Isn't the usual story that Factory A produces legitimate product during operation, then during off-hours some or all of the production line is illegitimately used to produce, as possibly in this case, the chassis/housing, which promptly disappears via the back door before legitimate production starts again? These housings are then presumably fitted with garbage in someones bedroom and sold to unsuspecting customers under some "unique" brand as the real deal when in fact they are dangerous knock offs. Having said that I share your bemusement with regards as to why make something that is deadly? I wonder if it is because the average production line worker in these factories only knows what a real one should look like rather than having a complete (or seemingly any) understanding of the electrical design and therefore a visual approximation is what they are going for?
Apart from the hazard of someone directly touching the live fibers (most likely while plugging it in), there is also a good chance of something like a metal chair leg coming in contact and doing exactly what you demonstrated. Or if used in a kitchen area a combination of the two. as someone moves metal cookware across a bench, gets a shock, and starts a fire. Amazing :(
Years ago we rented a flat in Istanbul (Turkey). My wife was getting shocked when she wiped down the kitchen tiles, which had a standard European two-pin socket on them. I checked what the problem was and found (to my disgust!) that they'd wired the earth contact to the LIVE rather than the Neutral incoming supply!! (It was common practice in cheap installations to link Earth to the Neutral to save a few grams of copper wire).
9:25 😂 Clive you're so relaxed and calm making these videos, I think this is the first time I've heard you get angry. Then "not to worry". Back on track. 👍🏻
Video shows that somewhat burnt plastic is a better conductor than good plastic. Interesting to know. About two years ago, one of my kids "multimetered" an outlet - well intentioned, too bad the meter was set to 200mA range, not voltage. Boom. Sparks. Nobody was hurt, just a loud bang, and he clearly learned his lesson as well. Test lead tips a bit molten as well, but amazingly the multimeter survived. Well, after this I immediately got a new outlet and replaced it. Mainly was fearing an increased contact resistance where it sparked, which can dissipate extra power and start a fire. With this video I learned: the sparking also weakens insulation properties. Thus can lead to surprise arcing even if nothing is plugged in, or when unplugging even a low power device like a phone charger or your LED lamp - where an extra half ohm of contact resistance wouldn't really matter that much. Good to know it is that dangerous. Made the right call then.
Our dear Clive has helped us stay safe by his testing and demonstrating the awfulness of these fake products found on eBay. Being a mother to 4 daughters from early to late teens makes me deeply grateful, for even I could have blown myself up. I cannot thank you enough! Happy Valentines (and all that $hite) Wendi 🤣
At the end you touch on a good point. A fake product may contain live electrical components but the case is made out of combustible plastics like PE or PP. In a good quality consumer mains powered product from reputable brands, these cases have to be made out of plastics with large amounts of flame retarding additives, and PVC is often the base plastic. In these fake products, this would add too much cost, so you just have moulded PE or PP. You can take a file and collect some shavings, then hold a small flame to them in a small metal dish, if they erupt into flame, then its got no fire retarding additives. If it smoulders and self extenguishes, it is much safer.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable in this stuff, but do you think PVC w/ additives would have mattered/done a better job here? It seemed to me that the fire came from a direct arcing onto and then through the plastic, which is _very_ hot. I mean, arc furnaces basically uses that same thing to melt steel.
@@nikkiofthevalley a 240 volt arc is hotter than the surface of the sun my friend in fact the voltage is entirely irrelevant, if there is enough voltage to produce a continuous arc it WILL exceed 3000 degrees celsius the reason arcs get so ridiculously hot is because of the MASSIVE resistance of air, the size of the current/voltage can be low and still cause hot arcs source; am engineer that builds furnaces that run on 240v, have seen alumina firebricks and silicon carbide tiles turned into puddles by arcing
8:30 😂 I like how you stayed calm and you didn't freak out. It was exciting. 😎👍 You're a boss with your tech. Thanks for exposing all of these scams.💯%
It really does irk me to no end when I find out about fake, and dangerous products like this. A while back, I went to an hardware store to look for electronic rodent deterrent devices. The clerk sold me two units, saying to plug one in at one end of the house, and the other at the opposite end. The manufacturer claimed the device would setup an EM field in the electrical system, making the rodents uncomfortable enough to leave. There was even a UA-cam video by that manufacturer showing their product running off the rodents. The devices did absolutely nothing, but show a blinking LED. The rat brigade continued their relentless march through my home for more months to come. A technician friend in the UK had me get on Skype with him, and open up one of the units. All that was inside was a stepdown circuit, and an LED blinker circuit. Nothing else. I must say, you were very lucky you didn't touch both of those "ionizer" points with both hands, or the current would've crossed your heart. Only takes a tenth of an amp to stop the heart. Obviously, though, you do have a ground fault detector which likely would've saved you anyway. I've had a similar incident involving a frayed cord which touched a light stand I was holding at the time. Thanks for doing this.
@@RobotronSage that case you're referring to is when they also sold coffee at about boiling temperatures. The person who sued didn't even wanna sue, she just wanted them to pay for her GENITAL RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY after getting massive damage from accidentally spilling the extremely hot coffee. They refused and she had to lawyer up. It's actually an interesting case to read or watch about, and how McDonald's and the media we intake did her dirty by trying to damage her character on television.
From across the pond, I have to say “YOU ROCK” All of your videos have been very helpful and you are certainly looking out for people. Thank you for exposing these harmful devices.
It is amazing to me that Ebay doesn't allow you to sell used underwear, for example, but allows stuff like this! Edit: Guys, I never said I WANT to buy or sell used underwear! I was just making a comparison. 🙄
Yeah that's a real bummer, I have some very thoroughly used underwear I'd rather sell than wash. I ate some bad lettuce on a hamburger 5 days ago and it has not been a great week.
I have to admit, I fast forwarded to the danger bit. I normally listen the whole video as I find your voice calming with a nice hint of sarcasm. I'm away from home and running out of data.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse than a capacitive-dropper USB charger, they make… this. I also love how the packaging says it’s for the “removal of armor”. Yeah, I think that wearing metal armor around this thing is a fundamentally bad idea, indeed!
The day eBay steps up and takes responsibility and starts cleansing their platform of these fake and dangerous products will be a sad day for your viewers, Clive.
And the start of a new platform. Technically, eBay is a platform for selling collectibles, like stamps and antique death traps. Perhaps failed prototypes and excess raw components too. But not new products like these.
"Nice cases" you said a couple of times Clive. Yes, I think we've all noticed that the chinese manufacturers are putting a lot of effort into making the outside look good, but inside is the usual dangerous and unreliable crap! Thanks for another fun video Clive.
I really think you need to consider installing a wall-mounted switch for the power if you think you're going to continue testing those fakes. When unplugging this thing it could arc even stronger, burning your hand in the process. Stay safe!
@@ronski4677 I've seen them; but yeah there's a switch controlling it somewhere. There *has* to be... And to concur on the OP's point; I'm still not cozy even behind a plug-in RCD! I want to get my contactor set up for this stuff; so I can cut the power in an instant; and if I can't... Then maybe a voltmeter attached to my arm could ._.
It's amazing how eBay allows this kind or product to be sold (that can kill people), but when I tried to sell some legit things for the first time my listings were all removed.
9:00 re "impress". My brother once had me interview a candidate for a job, and I gave him my reading. He said he was impressed, too. Me: "So, are you going to hire him?" Brother: "I didn't say I was _favorably_ impressed."
eBay have a habit of siding with sellers when things like this happen too. Happened to me on a device that ended up being thrown from an upstairs window very quickly once it set on fire. Seller insisted on item being shipped back, then claimed the charred smashed up remains weren't what they'd sent, and had the negative feedback removed.
Theoretically you’re not supposed to mail back counterfeits, you’re supposed to contact ebay directly and send them a picture of you destroying the item. Good luck getting that process started though
I noticed they give you a refund or even 10% refund and then the comment is AUTOMATICALLY removed. I have seen reviews that say the thing was COMPLETELY dead on arrival and the seller only wanted a 10% refund not full refund.
Haha, lets unplug that. 🤣 Great content as always Clive, you always find and showcase the best products out there, specially the undocumented "features" of them. 😁❤️
And it would. Look at the energy output when bridged with the file. Tripped the house circuit breaker, which I believe would be 16 Amps in the UK. An infant or child is gone if making contact with this.
@@SomeMorganSomewhere Indeed. Clive should make up a special extension lead with a 6A breaker in for testing things. I think Electroboom uses something like that.
The monitor beside me went into power save mode and turned off at the exact same moment Clive's lights went out... it was a special moment. 😆 Thanks again for shining a light (pun intended) on these dangerous products. 😁👍
Whenever im sick i blanket myself up on the sofa and put on bigclive on the tv. I usually fall asleep every now and then and wake up to a different video every time. Needless to say i love it
Should probably get a power strip with a switch on it when you're testing out known-dangerous devices. So that when the next one catches fire, you're not trying to unplug the fire with your bare hands.
OH YESSSSSS!!!!! Definitely need some of these mounted in DIY shops for testing light bulbs - will certainly keep customers flocking in for more!! Probably flocking into A&E but never mind 🙄
As soon as I see something with a sleeved earth pin, it's going in the bin! Also, both examples had the red wire attached to the neutral and no attempt at a fuse ... Great video as always, Clive!
Yeah it's really baffling that they fill these devices with pretty much the same amount of "stuff" that the non-fake product would have so it's hard to believe these cost less than the actual ionizers given how mass produced those little modules are
I'm constantly amazed that more injuries/fires or even deaths don't happen because of products like these and it annoys me a lot that eBay makes a complete mockery of the safety standards by allowing things like that to be sold into the UK market.
they dont, they allow people to tap into the Chinese market, and ship on terms that state the product is bought directly from China and imported by them. That way they dont have to follow UK safety standards, as no purchase has occurred in the UK.
UK customs will impound dodgy electronics, but they can't check every single eBay package entering the country! They publish a list of products they've confiscated and destroyed, so you know which brands to avoid (unless you're Big Clive 🙂)
@@elgorrion52 Same situation here in Germany. Being a seller myself who choses responsibly what to import from China and what not, i am at a huge disadvantage against chinese competitors who dodge cost driving legal obligations and standards.
I'm honestly amused that they've inadvertantly made them tamper-resistant by making them egg-shaped, so it's difficult to hold them still long enough to disassemble them and figure out how they (don't) work.
Thanks for the video Big Clive. I'm a bit worried that you may have breathed in some of the dust from the burning fibers. A quick google search suggests that the fibrous dust can be a hazard. I hope that's not the case. Take care big fellah.
It's amazing the amount of time and resources that was wasted to make a product that can kill like this. It blows my breakers. Also sorry about your lamp.
I would suggest you have a foot pedal that breaks connection to your socket incase things like this catch fire, so you can step of it to cut power or something along those lines :)
I love the accidental F-bomb at the end when Clive realised he blew the led lamp up as well... Did exceptionally well to keep his calm when things got "spicy"🔥 keep up the good work mate 👍
I think he was 'shocked' that it took the lights out! Clive: You need a UPS powering your lights at least - wouldn't want you tripping over the mountain of stuff in the darkness!
@@stepheneyles2198 Even cooler would be if he had some dull red emergency lights on batteries for these situations. Honestly I'm not sure why he hasn't built a few, lord knows he's got all the parts. Add a klaxon siren to the mix as well. Maybe a loop of a calm British woman giving emergency procedure instructions.
I love how Clive remains calm testing a product that blows up, then catches on fire, but loses his composure seeing how his LED bulb was destroyed.
It's all about expectations. And the bulb was obviously more important than the e-waste product.
😂😂
His adrenaline definitely kicked in when the fire started. See the rigid, tense shaky movement of his hand as he was thinking what to do.
Which means he likely has never planned for a fire hazard at his bench which is surprising to me. I hope it's not confidence that he knows what he's doing and will always avoid that possibility
@@truthtorpedo99 the way he started to speak so fast too
Priorities. The man has priorities 😀
The black smoke and black floating particles in the air are a clear sign that the "air purification" is in progress. In fact, if left to it's work, the device can purify your whole house down! As an added bonus, if you inhale those black "purification ions" that were floating around, they can set to work "detoxifying" your body.
Hahahahahahah, yeah, you just use the classic words for scam products. Stuff like: "Particles", "ions", "waves", "energy shield", "detox", "inverted sugar", "vegan" (yeah, i saw this on an electrical appliance in Temu)... They always find new stuff.
Hot water is good for healthy, no why
Oh, it was supposed to be an air purifier. I was very confused what this was and why anybody would want to buy something to test their lightbulbs on
It will insure that your hosue has a constant, non stop stream of fresh air into it.
@@The_Hanged-ManI assume “invert sugar” (that’s how I’ve usually seen it written) is just another name for dextrose, which is the mirror image of sucrose, and is indigestible but also not very sweet - it’s used as filler in Splenda, since the sucralose is hundreds of times sweeter than sucrose. (Inverse compounds don’t necessarily taste similar at all - for example, the flavor compounds in spearmint and caraway seeds are inverses of each other.)
the amount of people who would just palm the device to plug it in makes the whole live bristles thing terrifying
It's also a heating device and a crematorium. lol
Terrifying? Or Hillarifying?
China knows what they’re doing here it’s deliberate
@@operator8014hilarious until you realise it’s someone’s loved one who has to find them slumped lifeless next to the power outlet.
Depends. How long can you hold live wires until your body commits force shutdown@@operator8014
Nice booming! 😁 that’s very strange that they go to such an extent to make such nice looking case and provide circuits and such for a fake dangerous garbage!
You've become a verb, I hope you're proud :P
Boom button: 8:15
This video should be posted by you too considering your name and all then it can become Canon
the best part is how they are using semi fire retardent plastic
My theory is that they were producing legit ionisers and had some simple production test that crudely verified the output of the ioniser, so when they cost reduced the actual HV module out of the device they still needed to pass their production tests, and a live mains output produced a PASS on their test jig, so everyone is happy 😂
I tell you what, let's unplug that, let's unplug that. Ooohhh that's even better .... That was hysterical. Thanks Clive.
I think Clive was truly startled when he only expected the bulb to light up again, and not cause the fake thing to arc and go on fire.
First time I've ever seen Clive flustered 😁
@@matthewstephenson1664 He did not have the pie dish ready.
He said the naughty word! That's how much he loved that light bulb!
Right-o
You know it's going to get nuts when Clive says "there is one more experiment I wish to try..." because you know that's the last experiment the particular device will be involved with.
It's like PhotonicInduction and "Let's pop it!"
(GAWD I miss his content!)
It would have been nice to see it taken apart again after the explosion to see what damage was done inside.
The mark of a true engineer is the lack of panic when something goes awry.
More concern shown for the innocent light bulb than the Ebay rubbish. Thank you for bringing this to our attention
he didnt exactly sound calm in that moment
He shat himself.
@@DarrenBoxhall startled perhaps but his hands didnt tremble once, point OP was trying to make is that if you hear the big bang it probably didnt kill you xD
@HappyDragneels_page his hands were shaking but still he was able to not fully panic
When you said "we'll electroboom it" I was expecting a short, but you really brought it home with an unexpected fire, well done!
Mehdi Sadaghdar is truly a part of modern culture now.
This is it. Mehdi is now the equivalent of google in the electonics channels world
And it even came with than nice plastic soot snow at the end lol 🌨️
Hahaha, my thoughts exactly. He really did him justice with that one.
In turn, photonicinductioned it when there's fire and sparks.
"Right, tell you what, let's unplug that" is such a calm series of words for something on fire.
I thought those lamp testers were as dangerous as they could be, but the engineer behind this has managed to advance the state of the art. I'm impressed.
Mother nature always creating a better and better idiot
Firstly - I cant believe someone actually created this lethal monstrosity. Yeah, OK - they make fake/not working stuff but - there's "Non-compliant" and then there's this - deliberately dangerous. Secondly - Clive's response to the unplanned thermal event was priceless.....
Ironically, immediately after the fire I'm interrupted by an Ebay Ad guaranteeing the authenticity of name brand items and showing a lab tech looking at a watch.
Maybe they should look at some home electronic items as well.
Meant for the Chinese market, it's probably called population control..
@@kevinsellsit5584 Branding is more important than reality, so, they won't.
Ebay should check the product quality before money, Nowadays some of Ebay products quality are so low...
In most movies and cartoons, good triumphs over evil.
Most people enjoy such movies and cartoons.
It is because people love good.
Study, work, exercise, illness, etc. cause stress.
Stress creates an evil mind and leads to evil actions.
Most people are good, but stress breeds bad thoughts and bad behavior.
Give peace to all people by freeing them from study, work, exercise and disease.
That a company can knowingly produce and sell a product like this that can easily kill a child (let alone an adult!) is disgusting! Their entire mgmt structure should be arrested and thrown in prison.
Knowing how these things go, they probably all live the high-life. It comes at a price though, since if they do end up getting what they deserve, the places that these usually come from tend to be a bit more hardcore with punishments.
Yes but the entire management structure is just Uncle Wong in his pig shed with his smart phone and soldering iron and a bunch of crap he bought from the market.
@@kargaroc386management structure is just a guy in his pig shed with a soldering iron and smart phone, selling his junk on eBay
Considering that most of this junk comes from China, the CCP would probably give the company an award.
They will just claim bankrupcy and emerge under a different company name if in some trouble, they all do this
At the end of the video:
“aww I’ve blown the f**king lamp up!”
Clive never fails to make make me happy.
Ok I had to watch the video right to the end because of this comment. 🙂
I have never heard him swear before. Made me giggle 😃
"Not to worry!"
i wanna quote photonicinduction "Awwwww I've popped it"
Followed by a chipper, “Not to worry.” 😹👍
Being the father of two small children I can imagine a lot of things bridging those carbon fibers. And the boy would just laugh while it was burning.
As long as the boy is not "burning"...
to be fair I laughed while this was burning so it might just be a male trait
Kids usually explore the world by putting every thing in their mouths, licking this would not do them any good.
@@tonysheerness2427 Ay yo, why's the wall egg spicy?
@@tonysheerness2427 licking a 9v battery is bad enough
I can't believe any human being could be involved in the design, planning, logistics and making of this death trap.
It’d be genuinely interesting to interview one of their engineers to understand why they go to such lengths to build a fake product when it would have been just as easy to produce the real thing
The answer is probably incompetence.
they might just be getting rid of factory reject parts. still i'd hope they would at least, you know, try to not kill you or burn down your house once they scammed you
@@maw9406 Does make you wonder how many of these things have literally killed someone or burned down their house. Like those shitty electric scooters and hoverboards than burst into flames
They probably realized there are no negative consequences to selling dangerous products that don't even do anything. People buy them anyway.
@@kkobayashi1 Yeah you could be right. That said Aliexpress are pretty hot these days if you report a seller. I've had a few issues with garbage products and they were quick to step in and either refund or force a replacement. imo Aliexpress is better than eBay from a buyers perspective these days
I just adore the carbon soot raining down after that second burn. Giggling like crazy here. QuAlItY pRoDuCtS!
Proudly built in popular republic of China 😁😁😁
@@madworld. Made of pure Chineseium. :)
Yeah, that did make me laugh too 😂
To be fair, it probably DID create some ions in amongst the sparks and smoke.
I got an ad while playing a game selling SOFA CROUCHIN COVER. I'm not sure if it's a Sofa/Couch cover, or a Sofa Cushion Cover.
0:10 _"removal of armor"_ and _"sterilization"_ via *explosion.* IDK man, I think you've got what was advertised.
I bought a welding/ plasma machine for about £200 from eBay, brand new sealed in box. After using it for a while I noticed the extension lead getting very warm and also tripped the fuse in the extension a couple of times. Out of curiosity I wanted to see why the fuse on the welders 13amp plug didn't blow. After levering out the fuse holder, it was hot glued in place, I found out why. There was a solid brass bar soldered across the fuse contacts.
Hey they gave you a 1300A fuse for free, why are you complaining?
This is efficient on so many levels. You'll never have to buy another fuse again because 1) It'll never blow or 2) You'll be dead and therefore not have to worry about it..
Soldered, to boot. They really didn't want that fuse to blow.
really weird. that brass is probably worth more than the fuse. maybe they couldn't fit a fuse of the r ight rating in there anyway
Less Danger Of It Blowing
"Noooo, I 've blown the fuckin lamp up" LOL! I love your unscripted reactions. Even though I knew the file across the mains was coming, I still jumped and yelled when it blew the fuse, lol. Great stuff :)
"fake" and "dangerous" are basically a brief summary of eBay's entire selection of retail goods.
ebay doesn't sell anything
@@Gamefreak924really 😂
You just got to look into what you're getting, the deals are there
@@DocksOfFoxes exactly
@@DocksOfFoxes obviously; they're cheap *because* they're fake and dangerous. I never said it wasn't a good deal. Well, I guess it's not a very good deal if you die in a fire but just put some of the savings into a good smoke alarm.
That "...imagine someone was to bridge these contacts with this metal file..." portion had the gravity of a 'famous last words' moment and I laughed harder than I've done in months! Thanks, Clive
We knew something incredible was about to happen, but we didn't know the exact details. Thanks, Clive, for informing us of this pure hypothetical.
The worst thing about this is there is no accountability or consequences for those who produce these death traps.
It's a Darwin Award nominator. If you're stupid enough to buy and use this, you get what you get
They don't believe in safe and reliable design.
They believe in luck, if you are lucky nothing bad will happen to you.
There is a pretty easy solution to most of that: ban trade with China under the trade deals that let them shovel such crapware into Western markets.
You need to read a book 'Yellow Face, Black Heart'
@@jo300hn As far as I can tell, that book doesn't exist.
The reason the plastic burned is yet another non-compliance - they didn't use flame retardant plastic. Admittedly the flame retardant contains some kind of noxious bromine compound so the standard plastic is more environmentally friendly, so long as it doesn't burn your house down.
You’d think they’d use *phenolic* or something similar? (Not Burnable).
@@dennisyoung4631 That would be more expensive.
@@jamesrindley6215 phenolic? Bakelite? That stuff is *cheap,* supposedly! At least, it used to be.
Did the product fraudulently emboss an electrical product safety certification logo from a known testing laboratory such as TUV SUD, UKCA, BSI Kitemark, or INTERTEK ?
I don't think I've ever seen Clive genuinely panic! This product scares me
Yes, his hand were shaking, every so slightly and understandably.
Is the explosion-proof pie dish still hovering just out of frame ?
Please, Clive, use a local mains switch to turn things on and off!
@Jar he's a qualified Professional electrician so he knows how to handle live mains products without switches
@@turnipgaming9747 Its the surprise factor, always gets the adrenaline flowing.
Wow! Not only did you ElectroBoom it, you almost PHOTONIC INDUCTIONed it! Great work!!! 🤩
we need a colab of these 3
@@DrWillz1996 Definitely!
@@DrWillz1996not sure if that's a good idea.... I'm afraid they would create a black hole and the entire universe would implode
World might loose power, not sure if that would be advisable 😜
@@travismailsa1 Na don’t think so, but it will definitely push us over 1.0 on Kardashev scale!
That noise you made when it caught fire was incredible
08:34
You know things have really gone sideways if Clive says “That was very exciting…Let’s not do THAT again”.
You know he's bound to do it again.
It’s because of you Clive that when I recently needed a set of “waterfall” LED lights for a 3D print project, I very carefully scrutinised my eBay purchase. There was a rattle in the mains adapter that came in the kit, which turned out to be a piece of broken plastic from inside the adapter casing, but more worrying was the tiny circuit board that was not insulated and loosely sitting on top of the exposed 240V mains pins. That was potentially too spicy for my liking, so I removed the mains adapter and spliced in a USB cable, and now use an old Apple USB wall adapter.
The worrying thing is that whilst I along with your other viewers know to be very critical of eBay electronics, too many other people do not!
And thats why i'm very annoyed that factories have started to glue and resin fill devices so that you cannot get inside of them easily to see what is going on.
I throw water on my appliances and if the lights stay on I'm safe l reckon. After all I'm a busy HR consultant with no time to waste.
there was a news story about a girl my age whose dad had bought a knock-off iphone charger and she ended up paralyzed from touching the charger and a radiator at the same time. That taught me to be careful with cheap electronics...
I think the reason it arced so easily the second time is because that initial spark from the short across the lightbulb ignited the soot from the previous short. Fire can sometimes work a bit like a conductor, a least more of one than air.
i think its also entirely possible that the lightbulb short melted some of the lightbulb onto the electrodes, effectively extending them. you can see at the end that the arc took a chunk out of the contact on the bulb
After a long day at the office reading up on work site safety procedures in ATEX environments... You can not imagine how much joy and laughter I have had from your video. I am still all smiles as I write this. TY so much Clive. Thank you.
I love the fact you are more angry at your lamp being blown up than the fake product potentially killing people or burning the house down 👍
Very much like me getting angry at my 10p car fuse popping everytime it rains but not overly concerned at the broken wires between the alternator and battery 🤣
Keep up the good work
That part cracked me up as well 😂
I've fallen down many a youtube rabbit hole before; this is the first time I've fallen into "Accidental Chinese Bomb Defusal". Well done, sir. Well done.
My two favourite moments in this video Clive saying "you'll be glad to know, I'm going to Electroboom it" and the lovely shower of ash created after the fire.
Also it's horrifying to think that people can just buy these and not have a clue what danger they're plugging in :(
The real wonder is the USB chargers that put mains voltage through to your phone, and yet your phone will probably survive!
It's a natural result of the combination of capitalism, rampant consumerism, and deregulation (or, at least, failure to enforce regulations).
Fun fact: when you burn carbon fibre it produces microscopic shards that look a hell of a lot like asbestos dust particles under a microscope. Hope he was wearing a mask.
@@phydeux Huh? What? I have a $3 charger with 4 usb outputs and "fast charging"(not) that sounds very eligible for what you are saying. Can you elaborate please?
@@Z3DZ3R0 Just watch some of Clive's older videos about cheap USB chargers.
I genuinely find BC’s videos informative and hilarious at the same time - I wish all creators were like Clive! Bravo!!
This was by far you're best video ever. Putting the house (Possibly the whole block) in the dark. Then sets nearly the building on fire.
Remain fully calm en start pulling the socket out. So lessons learned. One put a extra fuse/eart-disconnect switch on you're test line.
Maybe use a switch so you don't have to grab in the burning test object. Ow and use a incandescent lamp for testing.
Or non of the above and we''ll get some more video's to enjoy. Be safe.
So you're telling me that instead of buying cheap ebay junk I could just as well have stuck two graphite sticks into my outlet and got pretty much the same result? Neat 👍
Yeah, man! Just shove some mechanical pencil leads up in there! 😂
As the owner of a lightbulb sweatshop, I'm always on the lookout for cheaper and faster ways to have the kids test them
i have never seen someone so calm when they are taking out their power, risking electrocution and setting something on fire
it actually gives me a headache trying to comprehend why anyone would go to such extraordinary lengths to produce something fake and so dangerous. i believe you're correct that they must get some sort of kicks out of making it. insane, truly.
money money money
(and zero ethics)
eliminate the occidentals?
@@maximilianrpm2927 But why not make something that just does nothing? They could just *not* connect these "emitters" to live wires. Instead, they took the extra step to make it deadly. Let it have a little LED and perhaps some PCB scrap that's not connected to anything inside.
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 Isn't the usual story that Factory A produces legitimate product during operation, then during off-hours some or all of the production line is illegitimately used to produce, as possibly in this case, the chassis/housing, which promptly disappears via the back door before legitimate production starts again? These housings are then presumably fitted with garbage in someones bedroom and sold to unsuspecting customers under some "unique" brand as the real deal when in fact they are dangerous knock offs. Having said that I share your bemusement with regards as to why make something that is deadly? I wonder if it is because the average production line worker in these factories only knows what a real one should look like rather than having a complete (or seemingly any) understanding of the electrical design and therefore a visual approximation is what they are going for?
Because it comes from a nasty commi country
i can listen talk to you about anything despite me not having much knowledge of the subject, yet i always leave full of it! thank you!
Apart from the hazard of someone directly touching the live fibers (most likely while plugging it in), there is also a good chance of something like a metal chair leg coming in contact and doing exactly what you demonstrated. Or if used in a kitchen area a combination of the two. as someone moves metal cookware across a bench, gets a shock, and starts a fire. Amazing :(
Very handy for a house 'warming'.
@@Frankhe78 china singlehandedly solving the gas price crisis and we don't even give them credit
@@maw9406 Can you imagine how boring life would be if China didn't exist?
Years ago we rented a flat in Istanbul (Turkey). My wife was getting shocked when she wiped down the kitchen tiles, which had a standard European two-pin socket on them. I checked what the problem was and found (to my disgust!) that they'd wired the earth contact to the LIVE rather than the Neutral incoming supply!! (It was common practice in cheap installations to link Earth to the Neutral to save a few grams of copper wire).
@@stepheneyles2198 It is a very effective way of killing tourists.
9:25 😂 Clive you're so relaxed and calm making these videos, I think this is the first time I've heard you get angry. Then "not to worry". Back on track. 👍🏻
Video shows that somewhat burnt plastic is a better conductor than good plastic. Interesting to know.
About two years ago, one of my kids "multimetered" an outlet - well intentioned, too bad the meter was set to 200mA range, not voltage. Boom. Sparks. Nobody was hurt, just a loud bang, and he clearly learned his lesson as well. Test lead tips a bit molten as well, but amazingly the multimeter survived.
Well, after this I immediately got a new outlet and replaced it. Mainly was fearing an increased contact resistance where it sparked, which can dissipate extra power and start a fire.
With this video I learned: the sparking also weakens insulation properties. Thus can lead to surprise arcing even if nothing is plugged in, or when unplugging even a low power device like a phone charger or your LED lamp - where an extra half ohm of contact resistance wouldn't really matter that much. Good to know it is that dangerous. Made the right call then.
Our dear Clive has helped us stay safe by his testing and demonstrating the awfulness of these fake products found on eBay. Being a mother to 4 daughters from early to late teens makes me deeply grateful, for even I could have blown myself up. I cannot thank you enough! Happy Valentines (and all that $hite) Wendi 🤣
Man... the first time I have seen Clive get close to genuinely annoyed and it is over a LED bulb.... LOL
By far this is one of the best videos you have put out. I loved the reactions, especially the lamp damage.
At the end you touch on a good point. A fake product may contain live electrical components but the case is made out of combustible plastics like PE or PP. In a good quality consumer mains powered product from reputable brands, these cases have to be made out of plastics with large amounts of flame retarding additives, and PVC is often the base plastic. In these fake products, this would add too much cost, so you just have moulded PE or PP. You can take a file and collect some shavings, then hold a small flame to them in a small metal dish, if they erupt into flame, then its got no fire retarding additives. If it smoulders and self extenguishes, it is much safer.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable in this stuff, but do you think PVC w/ additives would have mattered/done a better job here? It seemed to me that the fire came from a direct arcing onto and then through the plastic, which is _very_ hot. I mean, arc furnaces basically uses that same thing to melt steel.
@@mnxsNot at 240V they don't.
@@nikkiofthevalley a 240 volt arc is hotter than the surface of the sun my friend
in fact the voltage is entirely irrelevant, if there is enough voltage to produce a continuous arc it WILL exceed 3000 degrees celsius
the reason arcs get so ridiculously hot is because of the MASSIVE resistance of air, the size of the current/voltage can be low and still cause hot arcs
source; am engineer that builds furnaces that run on 240v, have seen alumina firebricks and silicon carbide tiles turned into puddles by arcing
Probably made from shredded coke bottles and white dye in an injection molding machine
That was a thing of beauty Clive. If only you did it in a dumpster; then you'd have the perfect metaphor for what eBay has become. ✊
8:30 😂
I like how you stayed calm and you didn't freak out. It was exciting. 😎👍
You're a boss with your tech.
Thanks for exposing all of these scams.💯%
"Oh noooooo...I've blown the fuckin' lamp up" needs to be printed on a t-shirt or mug
I would buy it
@@12345....... can confirm, a mug would be better imo.
Agreed
I laughed at the following, suddenly cheerful "but not to worry!"
Opposite Day Photonicinduction
It had been along times since we got a explosion and fire. Thank you for sharing with us. The weird thing is I could smell the smoke in my mind.
Synesthesia is great. I can often smell videos.
It really does irk me to no end when I find out about fake, and dangerous products like this. A while back, I went to an hardware store to look for electronic rodent deterrent devices. The clerk sold me two units, saying to plug one in at one end of the house, and the other at the opposite end. The manufacturer claimed the device would setup an EM field in the electrical system, making the rodents uncomfortable enough to leave. There was even a UA-cam video by that manufacturer showing their product running off the rodents. The devices did absolutely nothing, but show a blinking LED. The rat brigade continued their relentless march through my home for more months to come. A technician friend in the UK had me get on Skype with him, and open up one of the units. All that was inside was a stepdown circuit, and an LED blinker circuit. Nothing else. I must say, you were very lucky you didn't touch both of those "ionizer" points with both hands, or the current would've crossed your heart. Only takes a tenth of an amp to stop the heart. Obviously, though, you do have a ground fault detector which likely would've saved you anyway. I've had a similar incident involving a frayed cord which touched a light stand I was holding at the time. Thanks for doing this.
eBay needs to be held accountable. Somewhere in the world thee must be a casualty and a good lawyer that can be paired in a massive lawsuit.
I for one enjoy the ability to purchase interesting and potentially harmful products for pennies.
Imagine the lawyers eBay have on retention.
It would have to be the US government. We all know how that always ends.
@@ThunderChunky101 none of that should really matter. 20 years ago you could sue mcdonalds over a hot coffee. What changed?
@@RobotronSage McDonalds actually sells coffee.
@@RobotronSage that case you're referring to is when they also sold coffee at about boiling temperatures. The person who sued didn't even wanna sue, she just wanted them to pay for her GENITAL RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY after getting massive damage from accidentally spilling the extremely hot coffee. They refused and she had to lawyer up. It's actually an interesting case to read or watch about, and how McDonald's and the media we intake did her dirty by trying to damage her character on television.
I appreciate your ability to appear calm while your hands are shaking!
That's the English way of conducting oneself.
@@The-Cat English? Clive?
@@bentilley5412precisely that sir! Always speak fondly of a fellow Englishmen!
@@bentilley5412 his great grandfather that is..
From across the pond, I have to say “YOU ROCK”
All of your videos have been very helpful and you are certainly looking out for people.
Thank you for exposing these harmful devices.
It is amazing to me that Ebay doesn't allow you to sell used underwear, for example, but allows stuff like this!
Edit: Guys, I never said I WANT to buy or sell used underwear! I was just making a comparison. 🙄
Sounds like a bit of a personal grudge you have there...
Would YOU buy USED underwear??????????????????
One is easy to detect, another requires actual due diligence
Clive now has some to sell…
Yeah that's a real bummer, I have some very thoroughly used underwear I'd rather sell than wash. I ate some bad lettuce on a hamburger 5 days ago and it has not been a great week.
That's the first time I've ever seen you somewhat panicked Clive. Sure, stuff has blown up before but this was the best reaction. 😀
I have to admit, I fast forwarded to the danger bit. I normally listen the whole video as I find your voice calming with a nice hint of sarcasm. I'm away from home and running out of data.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse than a capacitive-dropper USB charger, they make… this. I also love how the packaging says it’s for the “removal of armor”. Yeah, I think that wearing metal armor around this thing is a fundamentally bad idea, indeed!
The day eBay steps up and takes responsibility and starts cleansing their platform of these fake and dangerous products will be a sad day for your viewers, Clive.
There's always AliExpress... And others.
And the start of a new platform. Technically, eBay is a platform for selling collectibles, like stamps and antique death traps. Perhaps failed prototypes and excess raw components too. But not new products like these.
clive will just have to go straight to the source, aliexpress! but the wait will be a bit longer for shipping
good thing that day will never come...
We'll switch to aliexpress lol
[Opens a portal to Hell]
"Ohh! Let's unplug that!"
The Doom Slayer approves. If you accidentally portal to hell, *close it and don't do that again*.
"Nice cases" you said a couple of times Clive. Yes, I think we've all noticed that the chinese manufacturers are putting a lot of effort into making the outside look good, but inside is the usual dangerous and unreliable crap! Thanks for another fun video Clive.
I laughed so hard, thank you!
Gotta love your groan of disappointment from the lamp being burnt :D
"There isnt much left *POP FLAMES* well lets unplug that shall we?"
I really think you need to consider installing a wall-mounted switch for the power if you think you're going to continue testing those fakes. When unplugging this thing it could arc even stronger, burning your hand in the process. Stay safe!
You might want to look up the word 'ark'. 😉
You guys don't have a switch on the outlet? I've literally never seen one that doesn't in Australia
@@ronski4677 nope! Other European countries don't as well
@@ronski4677 The outlets have switches, Clive's using an extension lead.
@@ronski4677 I've seen them; but yeah there's a switch controlling it somewhere. There *has* to be...
And to concur on the OP's point; I'm still not cozy even behind a plug-in RCD! I want to get my contactor set up for this stuff;
so I can cut the power in an instant; and if I can't... Then maybe a voltmeter attached to my arm could ._.
It's amazing how eBay allows this kind or product to be sold (that can kill people), but when I tried to sell some legit things for the first time my listings were all removed.
I think the secret is they just keep making new accounts and new listings
8:29 is worth mentioning that this will purofy your soul in the middle of the night, and your house, and probably reach your neighbours house.
9:00 re "impress". My brother once had me interview a candidate for a job, and I gave him my reading. He said he was impressed, too. Me: "So, are you going to hire him?" Brother: "I didn't say I was _favorably_ impressed."
"tell ya what lets UNPLUG THAT" i've never heard clive panic like this and it's honestly the funniest thing ever
So if I need to have my house burn down and look like an accident, I should buy these?
As The Doors once famously said: "Come on baby light my fibre"... D:
eBay have a habit of siding with sellers when things like this happen too. Happened to me on a device that ended up being thrown from an upstairs window very quickly once it set on fire. Seller insisted on item being shipped back, then claimed the charred smashed up remains weren't what they'd sent, and had the negative feedback removed.
Theoretically you’re not supposed to mail back counterfeits, you’re supposed to contact ebay directly and send them a picture of you destroying the item. Good luck getting that process started though
@@balkloth counterfeits?
I noticed they give you a refund or even 10% refund and then the comment is AUTOMATICALLY removed. I have seen reviews that say the thing was COMPLETELY dead on arrival and the seller only wanted a 10% refund not full refund.
Awesome vid Clive. Glad it was just a destroyed bulb and not you!!
Damn YT for not recommending this explosive goodness vid for over 2weeks.
Haha, lets unplug that. 🤣 Great content as always Clive, you always find and showcase the best products out there, specially the undocumented "features" of them. 😁❤️
I wonder if anyone could actually be held liable should one of these things kill someone?
It would be complex tracing the source and trying to bring them to justice.
And it would. Look at the energy output when bridged with the file. Tripped the house circuit breaker, which I believe would be 16 Amps in the UK. An infant or child is gone if making contact with this.
@@LakeNipissing The UK being the UK it wouldn't surprise me if it were a 32A ring main.
@@SomeMorganSomewhere Indeed. Clive should make up a special extension lead with a 6A breaker in for testing things. I think Electroboom uses something like that.
@@LakeNipissing Crazy amount of current in UK sockets. I believe the "fuse" here is the thin wiring in the fake thingy.
The monitor beside me went into power save mode and turned off at the exact same moment Clive's lights went out... it was a special moment. 😆
Thanks again for shining a light (pun intended) on these dangerous products. 😁👍
It broke your lightbulb, sue the eBay-seller! :D
Sadly not intended to be used with light bulbs.
But our other products.
Your reaction when it caught was hilarious, I had to watch that bit half a dozen times.
Same. I think he was genuinely taken by surprise there! Excellent!
And all caught on camera. Electroboom would be proud.
Whenever im sick i blanket myself up on the sofa and put on bigclive on the tv. I usually fall asleep every now and then and wake up to a different video every time. Needless to say i love it
Should probably get a power strip with a switch on it when you're testing out known-dangerous devices. So that when the next one catches fire, you're not trying to unplug the fire with your bare hands.
Preferably one with a circuit brreaker.
OH YESSSSSS!!!!! Definitely need some of these mounted in DIY shops for testing light bulbs - will certainly keep customers flocking in for more!!
Probably flocking into A&E but never mind 🙄
As soon as I see something with a sleeved earth pin, it's going in the bin! Also, both examples had the red wire attached to the neutral and no attempt at a fuse ...
Great video as always, Clive!
Yeah it's really baffling that they fill these devices with pretty much the same amount of "stuff" that the non-fake product would have so it's hard to believe these cost less than the actual ionizers given how mass produced those little modules are
HAHAHAHAHA 8:40 "Let's unplug that".....The slight hint of panic in your voice....HILARIOUS! Stay safe , Clive!
I'm constantly amazed that more injuries/fires or even deaths don't happen because of products like these and it annoys me a lot that eBay makes a complete mockery of the safety standards by allowing things like that to be sold into the UK market.
they dont, they allow people to tap into the Chinese market, and ship on terms that state the product is bought directly from China and imported by them. That way they dont have to follow UK safety standards, as no purchase has occurred in the UK.
I wonder if Ebay Germany for example has the same shite?
UK customs will impound dodgy electronics, but they can't check every single eBay package entering the country! They publish a list of products they've confiscated and destroyed, so you know which brands to avoid (unless you're Big Clive 🙂)
@@elgorrion52 Same situation here in Germany. Being a seller myself who choses responsibly what to import from China and what not, i am at a huge disadvantage against chinese competitors who dodge cost driving legal obligations and standards.
Amazon is exactly the same
08:43 As it catches fire "Ohh that's even better actually". I can't...!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm honestly amused that they've inadvertantly made them tamper-resistant by making them egg-shaped, so it's difficult to hold them still long enough to disassemble them and figure out how they (don't) work.
8:35
"Eeeeooooohhh.... let's unplug that. *LET'S* unplug that!"
🤣🤣🤣
Gotta love how he's more pissed over his lightbulb getting wrecked than having a product burn up and almost explode in his face.
at 1:10 I was laughing way too hard for having just awakened. what in tf is China _thinking?_
8:15 wonderfully toxic black snow!
Quite a beautiful "rain of ash" effect towards the end there. Some VFX artists train for years to achieve that.
Nooo...I've blown the f***ing lamp up! 💣 Not to worry! 😂 It reminds me of "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" 😂
Thanks for the video Big Clive. I'm a bit worried that you may have breathed in some of the dust from the burning fibers. A quick google search suggests that the fibrous dust can be a hazard. I hope that's not the case. Take care big fellah.
Clive i love you man. EVERY TIME you crack me up. "ok lets unplug this" IN TERROR.
It's amazing the amount of time and resources that was wasted to make a product that can kill like this. It blows my breakers. Also sorry about your lamp.
I would suggest you have a foot pedal that breaks connection to your socket incase things like this catch fire, so you can step of it to cut power or something along those lines :)
Indeed, a giant red “Oh Shit” switch seems in order these days.
..a foot paddle....that breaks. conn. .....and also a connect to "MEHDI"...with message to him..." EUREKA!!! I ELECTROBOOMED IT"😂😂😂
He needs a foot pedal that when held down allows for power. Release and no power
I love the accidental F-bomb at the end when Clive realised he blew the led lamp up as well... Did exceptionally well to keep his calm when things got "spicy"🔥 keep up the good work mate 👍
A rare treat indeed mate! Glad you're no worse for wear.
I think he was 'shocked' that it took the lights out!
Clive: You need a UPS powering your lights at least - wouldn't want you tripping over the mountain of stuff in the darkness!
@@stepheneyles2198 Even cooler would be if he had some dull red emergency lights on batteries for these situations. Honestly I'm not sure why he hasn't built a few, lord knows he's got all the parts. Add a klaxon siren to the mix as well. Maybe a loop of a calm British woman giving emergency procedure instructions.