Amazon says it “regrets” that previously criticised car seats have once again been found on sale on its UK store.
Amazon has since said that they have been removed.
Back in 2013, trading standards found that the seats would rip and become obsolete if the car was involved in a 30mph crash. Obviously, many people were upset by this and Amazon removed the dangerous product.
The news seats were sold for as little as £3.99, and were sold by different sellers this time. The products being sold allegedly have similar design and labels to the ones involved in the 2013 scandal.
The suspected dangerous car seats.
Amazon’s UK chief said the company took proactive steps to ensure the products it sold were safe.
“Automated algorithms survey over five billion product pages every day and we monitors tens of millions of customer reviews,” Doug Gurr said.
“Safety is extremely important to us and we regret that these products were available from third-party sellers using our stores.
“After a thorough investigation, we identified the issue and are removing these products, and we’re also contacting each customer who purchased one of these products to explain the situation and issue a refund.
“We will continue to leverage and improve our tools and technology to ensure only safe and compliant car seats are available worldwide.”
