Why we don't sell anything electric

Why we don't sell anything electric

There is no desk lamp on this site. No wireless charger, no powered hub, no lit mirror, no heated anything. It is the rule that removed the most candidates while the catalogue was being put together, and it is worth explaining rather than leaving as an odd gap.

Certification is not something you can take on trust

Anything that plugs into a US wall socket should carry the appropriate safety certification, and that certification belongs to a specific product built to a specific specification. A listing can show a certification mark that belongs to a different revision of the product, or to a similar product from the same factory. From the outside, at our scale, that is not reliably checkable.

We would rather not sell a category than sell it on a document we cannot verify.

Voltage and plugs are a real failure mode

Products made for multiple markets turn up with the wrong plug, or with a range that quietly excludes 120 V. The customer finds out at the socket. There is no good way to handle that after the fact.

Batteries make shipping worse

Lithium cells attract shipping restrictions, longer transit and the occasional refusal. Delivery is already the slowest part of what we do; adding a category that makes it slower and less predictable is a bad trade for everyone.

Warranties need someone to honour them

A powered device that fails in month five needs a repair path. A desk organizer that fails does not — it is a return. We can stand behind the second promise honestly, and we could not stand behind the first.

What that leaves

It leaves things that are simply objects: steel, wood, aluminium, felt, PU and acrylic. They arrive, they work, and they keep working, and the worst thing that can go wrong is that one does not fit — which is a return, and returns we can handle.

The other two rules are the same shape: nothing glass or ceramic, because it does not survive the distance; and nothing carrying another company's logo. All three are listed on the About page, and all three are checkable against the catalogue.