Which? said it found more than a dozen listings of illegal car seats on websites such as eBay, Little Dreams, ManoMano, Shein and Wish. <\/p>\n
One listing for a child’s car seat on eBay warned against using it in cars despite the product being described as suitable.<\/p>\n
The description in the listing read: “It is best not to use it on high-speed cars. <\/p>\n
“We recommend that it be used in non-motorized products such as electric vehicles, two-wheelers… Because it is not a child safety seat that complies with traffic.”<\/p>\n
In response, eBay said consumer safety “is a top priority”.<\/p>\n
“We swiftly removed these listings and notified buyers, and we continue to strengthen our preventative measures,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Which? said stricter rules were needed to “impose a clear and robust duty on online marketplaces to prevent the sale of unsafe products” and called for “strong penalties and rigorous enforcement”.<\/p>\n
Sue Davies, Which? head of consumer protection policy, said: “It is appalling that these deadly car seats are reappearing on online marketplaces more than a decade after Which? first exposed them, but it is not surprising.”<\/p>\n
She said children’s lives “will be at risk” until online retailers were forced to comply with product safety regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Which? said it found more than a dozen listings of illegal car seats on websites such as eBay,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-137924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}