We Don’t Know computers and video games
1 report to CPSC, the latest made Sep 25, 2017. A report isn’t a recall.
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At a glance
From SaferProducts.gov, released Oct 25, 2026.
- 1report to CPSC
- Sep 25, 2017the latest report was made
- Sep 25, 2017the earliest
- 0with the company’s comments
- Brand
- We Don’t Know
- Maker
- Five Below, Inc.Makers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
- Product
- Computers and video gamesComputers, their equipment and electronic gamesCPSC’s product type: Computers (Equipment and Electronic Games) (code 557), in Electronics: Computers, Monitors, Projectors
By month
The numbers, as a table
| Month | Reports |
|---|---|
| September 2017 | 1 |
How badly anyone was hurt
- No one hurt 1 CPSC: Incident, No Injury
As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.
The reports, as CPSC published them
Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.
Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.
CPSC, SaferProducts.gov public database export. Released Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily.
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No one hurt Made Sep 25, 2017, sent to the company Jan 25, 2018, published by CPSC Feb 15, 2018
The product, in the report: USB Cable for Apple iPhone.
We bought three generic USB cords for Apple IPhones at a local discount store in Fairview Heights, IL called Five Below. Initially they seemed okay but we soon realized that the phone end was getting dangerously hot on two of them. I am an electrical engineer and intimately familiar with how this kind of stuff works. It was not the phone and not the charger. We very quickly isolated it to the phone ends of the two cords. Please do not waste my time with a lot of dumb questions. I’m saving you time and telling you what the problem was.
We were not injured but feel we were lucky to detect it before any harm was done to the phone, the charger, the house or the cars. It was hot enough that I think prolonged contact with most combustibles could have led to a fire under the right circumstances. The connector and boot on the phone end of at least one cord shows subtle but clear evidence of deformation by melting.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the box or the receipts or anything. The only markings on the cable are the usual USB icon. I can send you the cables if you wish. But if you want to know anything about them I think you will have to call Five Below and ask them about what they might have sold to us in August in Fairview Heights. We don’t recall how many colors were offered in the brand/model we chose but we got one white, one pink and one blue.
- Bought from
- Five Below in Fairview Heights, Illinois
- Bought
- Aug 15, 2017, about then
- Where
- Unimportant, Unspecified: Other
- Who was involved
- Male
- The reporter’s relation to them
- Self
- As this report names them
- Brand We Don’t Know, made or sold by Five Below, Inc.
- How badly, in CPSC’s words
- Incident, No Injury
CPSC’s disclaimer
Disclaimer: CPSC does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database on SaferProducts.gov, particularly with respect to information submitted by people outside of CPSC.
Word for word, from the disclaimer in CPSC’s export.
Sources
Sources
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, SaferProducts.gov public database export.
Released Oct 25, 2026 and checked Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.
Reports of harm are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), on SaferProducts.gov. CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record.