Interesting enough, I once followed a German discussion about sub-standard adaptors. Usually the people on those German boards are extremely uptight about safety and listing/ code violation issues but faced with a cheap US/Euro power adaptor all they had to say was: "It's there to connect non-standard plugs, so it's not covered by our listings and code, nothing you can do about it." Basically they claimed there was no way of stopping the sale of such products within the EU.
