Why does Amazon allow merchants to sell products first and then hand in safety certificates?

According to reports, some buyers didn't ask for security documents until several weeks after the platform started selling. This will undoubtedly become a potential loophole for some unsafe products to flow into Amazon platform sales.

In recent weeks, Amazon contacted a group of new toy sellers by email, asking them to submit the "necessary safety documents" of toys that have been put on the market no later than September 9, 20/kloc-0, which is about two weeks after these sellers started selling these products.

Some sellers said that they were not required to submit security documents before selling products on the platform.

Last month, there were reports about unsafe products on Amazon platform. It is reported that there are thousands of unsafe products on Amazon platform that are banned or mislabeled by US federal agencies.

At least 4 152 of these products can be purchased at will on Amazon's website, and at least 157 of the products that Amazon has explicitly banned are still sold normally on the platform.

Including drugs lacking child safety warnings, banned wedge pillows for newborns, illegally imported prescription drugs, electronic products wrongly labeled as UL certified safety level, toys with unsafe lead content or potential suffocation danger, and so on.

The large-scale growth of third-party merchants is the key for Amazon to dominate the US e-commerce market.

According to Marketplace Pulse, by the end of last year, Amazon had more than 2.5 million active third-party sellers, with an average of about 3,400 new sellers every day. Last year, nearly 60% of Amazon's sales came from third-party products, compared with 30% in 2008.

Garrett Bluhm, the founder of Vendient, an online seller consulting company, believes that Amazon's "act first, then solve" approach will help speed up the listing of third-party merchants' products, rapidly expand the number and types of products on Amazon, reduce the price of products and attract more customers.

However, the decline in commodity prices is often at the expense of lax supervision of product compliance. With the growing scale of third-party businesses, Amazon is also facing more and more regulatory problems.

Amazon shares closed up 0. 13% yesterday. As of press time, it rose 1% after hours to 1842 USD.