Amazon to pay compensation for faulty third-party products
Amazon has just announced it's to pay compensation of up to $1,000 (£723) for damage or injury caused by faulty goods sold via the third-party sellers on its website. It will initially launch the scheme in the US, where the Consumer Product Safety Commission sued Amazon last month in a bid to get it to remove hundreds of thousands of products that threatened "serious injury or death" due to not meeting safety standards. Amazon was taken to court last year by a woman from Pennsylvania who was injured when a dog collar she had bought via a third-party seller on Amazon broke.
But this isn't Amazon's only big bet as it fights on a number of fronts. Click or scroll through what else the retail giant is planning. All dollar values in US dollars.
11 August 2021