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by 2OEH8eoCRo0 618 days ago
> you're essentially being dropshipped hazardous unregulated products.

How did we end up here? Like why the hell can I buy things on Amazon that can't legally be sold on shelves in the US? Why aren't retailers suing?

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The CPSC has sued and won https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2024/CPSC-Finds-...

Amazon used the excuse it wasn't acting as a distributor and thus shouldn't be held responsible for protecting the public from these products

> Why aren't retailers suing?

Because Amazons wiped a lot of them out, and the ones that remain are either doing the same thing, or stand zero chance of comign out of it anything less than bankrupt.

Amazon for all its convenience has decimated likely close to if not more than a million businesses at this point across the world.