AMAZON: Exposes customers personal details through auctions
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer with over $110 Billion dollars in sales in 2020. Amazon has billions of customers across the globe who rely on the speedy delivery service they offer for delivering anything from clothing to high value jewelry and technology products. As a large retailer, Amazon deals with exceptionally huge volumes of customer returns and surplus stock that needs to be processed and resold on a daily basis. Amazon often redistributes these returned parcels through public auction organisations such as John Pyes, Direct liquidation and Liquidation.com. Although Amazon claims they remove all data from the products and packaging relating back to the customer, we have found out that auctioneers in the US,UK and EU have been selling customer returned parcels with customers address details clearly showing as well as phone numbers, email addresses and zip codes.