In the suit, Amazon argues that the company should not have legal responsibility to recall and remedy consumers for unsafe products sold on its marketplace by third-party sellers. Amazon claims that it is just an intermediary and logistics provider for third-party sales, similar to a delivery service, not a distributor or retailer that has a legal responsibility to carry out recalls. The CPSC ordered Amazon to recall more than 400,000 unsafe products in July 2024, after more than three years of adjudication.
This is like Uber saying they’re not subject to taxi regulations because something something “on the web.” Yet they are functionally the same as a taxi service, except for their predatory surge pricing algorithm (which regular taxi firms do now too-- thanks a lot, Uberrhoids).