Amazon to compensate for unsafe goods sold by independent traders

US online retail elephantine Amazon pledged Tuesday to straight compensate customers harmed oregon injured by faulty goods bought from autarkic sellers connected its platform.

The institution said that from September 1 it volition wage retired connected personal injury oregon spot harm claims of up to $1,000 for defective products sold done Amazon.com—which accounts for 80 percent of cases.

Amazon said successful a connection connected its website that it mightiness wage retired higher amounts if the vendor fails to respond to claims oregon rejects a claim that Amazon deems valid.

The announcement comes astir a period aft the national US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) sued Amazon successful a bid to unit the institution to instrumentality work for the callback of unsafe products sold connected its platform.

Among the products deemed to perchance beryllium putting customers astatine hazard of wounded oregon decease were 24,000 faulty c monoxide detectors and 400,000 hairsbreadth dryers sold without capable extortion against electrocution.

"By lasting down customers and the products successful our store, careless of who sells them, Amazon is going acold beyond our ineligible obligations and what immoderate different marketplace work supplier is doing contiguous to support customers," the institution said.

It said it would usage external, autarkic security fraud experts to analyse the validity of claims.

"We volition contiguous valid claims to sellers and contradict unsubstantiated, frivolous, oregon abusive claims," it said.

"By doing this enactment connected behalf of sellers, we prevention them from having to analyse these claims connected their own."

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