A separate unbranded alarm which failed to sound in 15 carbon monoxide detection tests was available for sale from six sellers on Amazon and eBay. Which? also found two sellers listing it on AliExpress. Another unbranded CO and smoke alarm that failed to trigger 22 times when CO was in the air was listed by 22 eBay sellers, with 718 sales recorded. Which? found 88 sellers listing the same alarm on AliExpress, Amazon, eBay and Wish, with eBay sellers alone accounting for close to 600 sales. Five of the cheapest 10 carbon monoxide alarms on eBay were for this model. This year's tests found the model failed to respond to carbon monoxide 10 times out of 28 tests, and was too quiet when it did sound. Read More: Amazon customers issued warning over scams used by fraudsters to steal bank details One of the models, a battery-operated carbon monoxide alarm, was first flagged to eBay by Which? seven years ago. The only online marketplace that disclosed sales figures was eBay, which said it had sold at least 1,311 of the alarms.įive unsafe CO alarm models, all unbranded and made in China, featured prominently online when listings were filtered by cheapest first, in some cases being sold for as little as £5. Which? said it found 149 listings for unsafe alarms across four online sites, which had all subsequently been removed. Dangerous carbon monoxide alarms are being sold online through platforms including eBay, Amazon, AliExpress and Wish, an investigation has found.
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