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Amazon has removed a million products wrongly claiming to protect or cure coronavirus from its site. Tens of thousands of items, prices of which had jumped
during the epidemic, have disappeared from the site, said the e-commerce giant on Thursday.
Among these goods are antibacterial gels and health masks, reports Reuters. So the pack of ten
N95 type masks, manufactured by M3, were normally sold for around $ 41. Since the start of the epidemic, it could be found for $ 128 on the site.
Honest sellers also wronged
In a statement, Amazon said it had applied its customer protection policy: product information must be reliable, and the company reserves the right to remove products that may betray buyers’ confidence. This is particularly the case when
the rates “are significantly higher than the prices recently observed on Amazon or elsewhere”.
The firm has not specified from what percentage a rise in price is considered exaggerated. To spot abuse, Amazon uses automated tools and human moderation. The device would however have limits, notes Wired. A professional seller of sanitary masks on Amazon recently complained that their items were removed from the site when their price was the lowest in this category of items.
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