I'm not thinking it's the 'same problem'. I'm thinking that a subcontractor/manufacturer did some shoddy manufacturing, or Belkin did some shoddy engineering, and Belkin didn't catch it. Quality control is hard when your manufacturer isn't in the same building, or same side of the planet. Billions of products have been found to be either toxic, or dangerous. My sister worked at a company that shifted all of their programming to India, and she said that managing them was a real PITA. Their schedules weren't on the same start/end times. and the language, and 'intention' of the language held back much of what they needed to get done. Plus the usual stuff of bugs popping back into the products, etc.
There is a guy that takes apart foreign made 'junque', and examines it for chances of killing people. So many are using lower grade wire, floating grounds, cold soldered boards, no power side separations, no fuses, inadequate or not filters, etc... Sometimes too, what is speced isn't what ends up going into production. The manufacturers just substitute parts, and have apparently on occasion even altered boards, and the company whose name is on it doesn't catch it.
