Family Sues Amazon After Counterfeit Hoverboard Catches Fire, Destroys Home (wtsp.com)

Three weeks after unboxing a hoverboard, it burst into flames. But is Amazon partly to blame? tripleevenfall quotes The Tennessean: A Nashville family whose $1 million home was destroyed earlier this year in a fire caused by a hoverboard toy is suing Amazon saying the retail giant knowingly sold a dangerous product... The lawsuit says the seller of the hoverboard listed online, "W-Deals," is a sham organization that is registered to an apartment in New York City that has not responded to requests from lawyers in the case. It alleges the family was sold a counterfeit product from China instead of a brand with a Samsung lithium ion battery they believed they were buying from Amazon . It says Tennessee product liability law holds a seller responsible if the manufacturer cannot be found.

Comments

Genuine Samsung Battery

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not sure that's really an improvement...??

Re:Genuine Samsung Battery

[RuffMasterD]

Pfft. I don't want some cheap knock-off Chinese explosion. I have standards. Genuine Samsung batteries burn hotter for longer thanks to rare earth minerals.

Re:Sue for what exactly?

[Zocalo]

For damages, sure, but maybe they wanted the genuine *Samsung* battery so they could burn their entire neighbourhood to the ground, but instead got a cheap knock-off and only their house got toasted and are suing for misrepresentation?

Could be worse, at least they didn't get the oblig. bobcat...