Retail giant Amazon has announced a compensation payment to combat the problems with the safety of certain products.
They have a huge number and variety of products on their site, some of which have sparked safety concerns with consumers.
Some of these products include toys that may pose a risk to children and some faulty or hazardous electrical items that are listed on the platform.
While Amazon says that damage or injury caused by items they sell is an 'unlikely event' they are now willing to compensate those who have been hurt with up to £723.
The scheme is to be launched in the US next month but according to the retailer, they are "looking forward to expanding in other countries soon", hinting at an expansion of protection rights for UK shoppers.
Amazon was taken to court in Pennsylvania last year by a woman who was blinded in an eye when a faulty dog collar broke and caused her retractable dog leash to hit her glasses.
She purchased the item via a third party Amazon seller.
High street stores and manufacturers are normally held liable for injuries caused by faulty products if they do not take adequate steps to remove them from customers.
Online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay however, are not liable, unless they were aware of the issue, reports the Mirrror.
Third-party products from independent merchants make up about 60% of Amazon sales but the products are not checked for safety.
The company has previously said that it is operating an online store that simply connects buyers and sellers so it is the responsibility of the traders to meet safety standards.
The consumer rights group Which? said it had "revealed time and again that unsafe products slip through the checks" put in place by Amazon.
Last month Amazon was sued by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to get the company to recall hundreds of thousands of potentially killer products. The CPSC said that Amazon had to "accept responsibility" for products that posed a risk of "serious injury or death".
The products included 24,000 faulty carbon monoxide detectors, a variety of children's clothes that could burst into flames and nearly 400,000 hairdryers that could electrocute people when wet.
The CPSC also found 24,000 faulty carbon monoxide detectors that failed to set off an alarm and children's sleep clothes, such as dressing gowns, that were in violation of flammable fabric safety standards.
It said Amazon did stop selling some of the products and notified some customers of the dangers posed by them, but that the unilateral actions taken by the company were insufficient.
Amazon insisted that it had already removed most of the products in question.
The company said that its plans to compensate customers for dangerous third-party products was "going far beyond our legal obligations and what any other marketplace service provider is doing today to protect customers".
The company added that "frivolous" claims would be dismissed, saving third-party sellers the time and money to investigate the claim themselves.
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