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‘If the specs are true’ is doing a hell of a lot of heavy lifting there.

That’s the whole point, you can put whatever you want on a webpage, what is actually delivered could be completely different. They rely on no one actually opening it up because, who would?

There isn’t anything fundamentally wrong with a product which is manufactured in China. You can get anything made to any specification. Certain Chinese brands are also known to be high quality (e.g. UGREEN) but they make their own stuff rather than knock off other people’s things.

The issue is places like Amazon are also stuffed with low quality and frankly dangerous knock off products from fly by night sellers and describing them as ‘non-compliant’ is an understatement.

Here in lies the crux, do you trust a cheap knock off product to actually meet that specification?

All anyone is saying is buyer beware. It’s also a battery and the fault condition usually presents during charging or use. So don’t charge it unsupervised should be the minimum precaution however they can spontaneously combust.
 
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These are the specs for the compatible battery+charger I bought for my makita tools... If and a big IF the specs are true, these shouldnt burst into flames...But saying that there's a lot of genuine stuff made in China, so the stuff can't be all that terrible?

That assumes what you receive bears any resemblance to the specification! Which is the problem.
 
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