[gabe]

If I was the manager of a Dollarama in southern Ontario, I might get a bunch of cheap eclipse glasses to sell. I remembered I still had these from the last partial one a few years ago, when I think I had ordered a pack of 5 from Amazon or eBay.
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Wearing cheap glasses is a good way to destroy your eyesight. You need a welding helmet with Shade 12 or higher. Or glasses verified by AAS

How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely

How to Use Solar Viewers | Indirect Viewing Methods | Do Solar Viewers Expire? | Cleaning Instructions | Welding Filters

eclipse.aas.org

 

[SubHuman]

Wearing cheap glasses is a good way to destroy your eyesight. You need a welding helmet with Shade 12 or higher. Or glasses verified by AAS

How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely

How to Use Solar Viewers | Indirect Viewing Methods | Do Solar Viewers Expire? | Cleaning Instructions | Welding Filters

eclipse.aas.org

I doubt many people will want to buy a welding helmet just for this. Obviously not just regular sunglasses, but AAS approved eclipse glasses, like the ones shown in the links to "Authorized Dealers" in your link above (a few of them specify that they are in Canada).
https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters
They were as low as US$3 (about 4.10 Cdn) for one and lower (about Cdn$3 each) for 100 of them, and I suppose a Dollarama, Walmart, etc., here could have sold them for a small markup. (They actually list Walmart under "North American Large Retail Chains" in that link, though that could be a US-only thing.) But now it looks like the ones left available are about Cdn$5 each.

Looking at those ones I kept from a few years ago in my previous photo, I see "Destroy the glasses after 3 years" printed on the back of them.

 

[lenaitch]

Wearing cheap glasses is a good way to destroy your eyesight. You need a welding helmet with Shade 12 or higher. Or glasses verified by AAS

How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely

How to Use Solar Viewers | Indirect Viewing Methods | Do Solar Viewers Expire? | Cleaning Instructions | Welding Filters

eclipse.aas.org

I think selling non-certified filters, or stating they are when they aren't, would attract a class action lawsuit, certainly in the US. I have to believe there is some ambulance chaser waiting to pounce.

 

[gabe]

I think selling non-certified filters, or stating they are when they aren't, would attract a class action lawsuit, certainly in the US. I have to believe there is some ambulance chaser waiting to pounce.

You would think that, but Amazon does it all the time. They make millions a year selling non-certified crap! You can't fight the richest company in the world.

A major Wall Street Journal investigation recently revealed that Amazon has listed “thousands of banned, unsafe, or mislabeled products,” from dangerous children’s products to electronics with fake certifications. The Verge reported that even Amazon’s listings for its own line of goods are “getting hijacked by impostor sellers.” CNBC found that Amazon has shipped expired foods—including baby formula—to customers, pointing to an inability to monitor something as basic as an expiration date. Because of the proliferation of counterfeits and what Birkenstock describes as Amazon’s unwillingness to help it fight them, Birkenstock won’t sell on Amazon anymore. Nike announced that it is also pulling out of Amazon. “Many consumers are … unaware of the significant probabilities they face of being defrauded by counterfeiters when they shop on e-commerce platforms,” reads a January 2020 Department of Homeland Security report (PDF) recommending measures that would force e-retailers to take counterfeits even more seriously. “These probabilities are unacceptably

Welcome to the Era of Fake Products

Counterfeit goods have proliferated along with e-commerce. Here’s your primer on the growing world of fake products—and the forces working to combat them.

www.nytimes.com

 

[lenaitch]

You would think that, but Amazon does it all the time. They make millions a year selling non-certified crap! You can't fight the richest company in the world.

A major Wall Street Journal investigation recently revealed that Amazon has listed “thousands of banned, unsafe, or mislabeled products,” from dangerous children’s products to electronics with fake certifications. The Verge reported that even Amazon’s listings for its own line of goods are “getting hijacked by impostor sellers.” CNBC found that Amazon has shipped expired foods—including baby formula—to customers, pointing to an inability to monitor something as basic as an expiration date. Because of the proliferation of counterfeits and what Birkenstock describes as Amazon’s unwillingness to help it fight them, Birkenstock won’t sell on Amazon anymore. Nike announced that it is also pulling out of Amazon. “Many consumers are … unaware of the significant probabilities they face of being defrauded by counterfeiters when they shop on e-commerce platforms,” reads a January 2020 Department of Homeland Security report (PDF) recommending measures that would force e-retailers to take counterfeits even more seriously. “These probabilities are unacceptably

Welcome to the Era of Fake Products

Counterfeit goods have proliferated along with e-commerce. Here’s your primer on the growing world of fake products—and the forces working to combat them.

www.nytimes.com

Good point. They skate a lot of rules that impact bricks-and-mortar' retailers. I don't know if that is because of 'state vs. federal' trade laws or, as you say, a lack of willingness to take them on. A lot of the crap on their website is from third-party sellers, but a lot of it is directly on them.

 

[AlbertC]

From #EclipseWatch2024 earlier today

 

[SubHuman]

I've lost count of the number of times I've read that for outdoor events that were cancelled because of rain. I'm guessing it will happen again tomorrow (Wednesday) with the forecast displaying 90 or 100% chance of rain all through the afternoon and evening hours.
And just to be as obnoxious about it as possible, they'll keep repeating all day that it's "still a go for tonight" on their social media, until finally cancelling it 30 minutes before it's scheduled to start.

 

[Towered]

 

[AlbertC]

Looks like a scene from the earlier portions of the film Interstellar where dust storms periodically overwhelm the world. All we need now is Matthew McConaughey speeding down Lappin to rush home before he gets pummeled.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Looks like a scene from the earlier portions of the film Interstellar where dust storms periodically overwhelm the world. All we need now is Matthew McConaughey speeding down Lappin to rush home before he gets pummeled.

Get ready to eat corn - and nothing but corn.

AoD

 

[Towered]

Looks like a scene from the earlier portions of the film Interstellar where dust storms periodically overwhelm the world. All we need now is Matthew McConaughey speeding down Lappin to rush home before he gets pummeled.

I used my sunglasses as the filter