Hi Kai thank you for taking the time to respond to the OP. There is a bigger issue here though that needs to be taken back to the Amazon management.
That is clearly some of the TIC companies absolutely pulling the eyes out of people.
We all accept do we that ILAC is the international thats internationally approved lab for testing right ? and CNAS is part of this.
So why is it then that the TIC labs are using Amazon to price gauge sellers ?
So if you contact a company and they say oh its £180 to test for lets say Battery testing UN38.3 and you say ok thats fine, but then you say but it needs to be TIC, then the company says oh thats £400 for the same test.
Thats absurd. But thats what people are facing, Amazon should be asking the companies to product a price list for generic services so people can compare.
Yes individual products maybe different, but largely the price list should be publiscised and amazon should remove any company that price gauges from the list of approved TIC firms.
Otherwise your going to loose a lot of products that are compliant, a lot of sellers who will get fed up and the companies doing the price gauging may even lead to some companies seeking legal advice.
We all want a platform where the products are safe and the customers can buy in confidence. But surely that cannot be at the cost of allowing price gauging by limiting the number of companies able to do the testing and they ramp prices up, as thats monopoloistic behaviour.
Despite this, even when items are clearly not compliant there are cases where Amazon are not taking action. I reported an item the other day, no safety information, no labelling, no warnings, no model number, nothing, no CE or UKCA mark.
Amazon are fulfilling this item from your warehouse and you now know about it, as of today almost a week later ? still for sale.
So how do these companies then justify the huge add on pricing for testing ? its simply price gauaging by the testing firms
Nobody is expecting the pricing to be identical, but four or five times the cost of CNAS and ILAC testing ? thats absurd