{"id":485757,"date":"2023-03-29T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T08:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=485757"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T08:56:25","slug":"amazon-adding-warning-labels-to-frequently-returned-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/485757-amazon-adding-warning-labels-to-frequently-returned-items.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon adding warning labels to frequently returned items"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon is rolling out a warning label for products listed on its site that customers “frequently returned” to help prospective buyers avoid misleading or low-quality products, The Information reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The policy change will also help the ecommerce giant reduce the frequency of unnecessary returns. Amazon currently allows returns on new and unused items within 30 days after purchase.<\/p>\n

“We’re currently showing return rate information on some product detail pages to help our customers make more informed purchase decisions,” Amazon spokesperson Betsy Harden told The Information.<\/p>\n

Numerous counterfeit and low-quality items are listed on Amazon’s website, boosted by deceptive marketing and sometimes fake news.<\/p>\n

The warning label could encourage merchants selling through Amazon’s platform to be more honest regarding their product listings.<\/p>\n

The Information has already spotted the warning label on several products, including the Pro-Ject Automat A1 record player and two dresses.<\/p>\n

The items have a relatively high rating which could encourage customers. However, specific customer reviews reveal that the products have been previously damaged or that there are false claims within the listing.<\/p>\n

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Amazon hopes the warning labels will encourage its retailers to be more transparent in their product listings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":467119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[723,85191,85189,1163],"class_list":["post-485757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-amazon","tag-betsy-harden","tag-counterfeit-products","tag-ecommerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485785,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485757\/revisions\/485785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}