To Longbarrel (et alia),
I don't know who told you that but they are dead, 100% WRONG! It costs about $1,050 (+/- $100) per year to get a rating from UL.
The motive is to put your product up for testing by an unbiased, third party. That unbiased third party (UL) which has a high reputation, through testing proves that your product will do what you claim it will do.
Anything else is just propaganda.
Regards,
Doug
Disclaimer: I haven't fact-checked your cost estimate (sounds horrendously low from my thoughts) but lets assume that is correct. That isn't the whole story.
#1 That cost is incurred on EACH model
#2 That doesn't include the cost of the safe that is destructively tested
Consider that a custom safe manufacturer, to have a UL listing on a custom safe, would have to submit an example safe and pay the testing fee you're looking at more than double the actual cost and that assumes it passes on the first attempt.
Of course, those that churn out tons of cheap safes can amortize that cost across all the large volume of safes they make and it's rather insignificant even if it takes them 5 tries to figure out the cheapest way to make a safe that still passes the pre-defined test that may (or may not) actually protect your valuables.
There are 2 schools of thought. A manufacturer (especially a small one) that saves that cost and puts it into a beefier safe can actually come out ahead of the UL listed safe as far as security. That small margin on cost can actually provide quite a margin of actual protection...
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