Generic Chinese VFD, no CE and no earth connection to exposed metal heatsink

[Gary]

It's just a 3rd party warehousing service used by a Chinese company from Shanghai. On the bright side you should only have to send it back to the warehouse for a refund, then you can buy something with a CE mark ;-)

If it was sent from Germany, it would have been invoiced from Germany, so imported into the EU and resold, so if it is not CE, this is illegal.

But your qualified electrical engineer would have spotted all that and either wired it correctly or condemned it :D

Not the point. If it is dangerous it should not be sold regardless of where.

Also just because it has CE stamped on the device does not make it CE, you should ask for a copy of the certificate and this will give the details of the company who put it through CE and the number that you can check up on.