Amazon warns customers to throw away unsafe hoverboards after fears they could

Amazon UK has sent e-mails to its customers, asking them to take the self- balancing, two-wheeled scooters to a recycling point for electronic equipment, The Daily Telegraph reported.

“Should any customer be concerned about their product, they can return it to their nearest Argos store for a full refund”.

Amazon this weekend pulled 97 percent of all listed hoverboards from its site over safety concerns, writing in a statement sent to The Verge that all manufacturers “provide documentation demonstrating that all hoverboards you list are compliant with applicable safety standards”.

There has been one fatality to date when 15-year-old Nawaf Al-Tuwayan, from north west London, who was using a hoverboard fell in front of a bus and was dragged 200 yards along the road earlier this month.

“As safety is on the forefront for Swagway, we applaud Amazon for taking these steps to weed out the low quality boards”, the company said. “If proved to be unsafe, it should take legal action to stop sales”.

Chargers, cabling and batteries were also found to fail safety standards. Customs did not comment yesterday.

All told, plenty of the “ships and sold from Amazon” hoverboards don’t come with the “Verified Purchase” language that proves the customer bought the hoverboard from Amazon.

The hoverboard, of an unknown brand, was bought for HK$1,800. Also, a majority of the hoverboards are manufactured in China and they use the unscientific method to evade from questions about intellectual property and other trade regulations.

Overseas retailers and regulators have acted after a series of hoverboard fires.

EVERYTHING SELLER Amazon has reportedly changed its tune on the sale of those things that people call hoverboards, but are more accurately described as idiot carriages.

At least 12 reports of hoverboard fires in 10 U.S. states are being investigated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Airlines are also increasingly banning the boards from their planes over safety fears.