Unsafe products can easily be sold on the bol.com and amazon.nl online shops. This emerges from a research by the Consumers’ Association, which registered as a dropshipper with the sales platforms. Both platforms appear to have insufficient oversight of products offered by third parties.
The Consumers’ Association has offered nine items for the study that are registered as dangerous in Europe, such as a life-threatening children’s swing and a fire-hazardous air conditioner. Amazon let eight of its nine products pass. Seven of the products in question could be purchased by consumers on bol.com.
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It is shocking that it is so easy to fool the control systems of these large sales platforms,” says Sandra Molenaar, director of the Consumers’ Association. According to the Consumers’ Association, the researchers were able to easily bypass the controls by applying a few simple tricks , such as changing product codes. “So that check is a waste of time. We are particularly shocked that products registered as dangerous end up so easily on those websites. Control needs to be greatly improved,” says Molenaar.
Answer Bol.com
‘The quality of the articles is the raison d’être of our platform and a team of dozens of people works on this every day. Deliberately putting the “wrong” assortment online, as indicated as a test by the Consumer Association, is not the rule,” a spokeswoman for Bol.com said in a response. 52,000 local business partners.
The researchers also tested online stores from Zalando and Blokker, among others. In the end, unsafe products weren’t put on sale there.
Source: BNR
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