>If an electrical contractor can burn down my home and so can your shoddy product, they should require the same minimum insurance.
You think companies like Google and Amazon don't buy from the same cheapest deal manufacturers?
At the very beginning of my career in 2008, I worked in a trade agency in Singapore, where I was an exchange student. Once, we came upon a client who was bragging to be the sourcing company working for all big named Co's around, Amazon and Google included. We were doing a very simple thing for them - getting USB ac/dc converters.
At first, we were truly surprised why such a "serious company" is not up to the task to do this trivial thing by themselves. The catch was they were demanding price just below $1 for a unit, packaged....
We found one miserable factory in SZ that was ready to do it for 87 cents, sans packaging.
On our request if they do get an idea what this involves, the client said yes.
Not only they went forward with that, they continued to fight for the price, and turned to thing as ridiculous as demanding use of cardboard PCB, shaving microns of plastic from the casing there and there, and, the most ridiculous, demanding "use two cheap diodes instead of this beefy one."
Two years later, I heard people were reporting that half of people buying Google Nexus were the lucky receivers of this usb charger batch.