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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
It's been acknowledged by the powers that be that both contributed to this tragedy.
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The only way Amazon could be at fault is that a knife was purchased from them which ended up with a 17 yr old, the irony being there if he'd waited a few days he would have been able to buy it legally anyway.
Given that when one purchases age restricted items on Amazon, their policy is that they have to hand it over to someone at the address who is over age.
So the questions which I'm not sure have been fully answered here are who purchased the knife? Was it under a 17 yr old's Amazon account in which case it should never have been allowed as the person purchasing it was not of age (which is what matters). And how was it delivered, was it signed for by him or his parents, what age verification was made there?
Something probably does need to be done here because the present system simply doesn't work. If someone ordered a bottle of whisky off Amazon and that person was over 18, paid for it, it was delivered but at the time because they were at work the only person in was their 15 year old child who had just got back from school, the delivery would fail, realistically this shouldn't be the case as much as it isn't their item and it's as much likely to get into their hands if they signed for it as if their parents did and then gave it to them. Verifying that the purchaser is of age before accepting the order should be mandatory (the first time an age restricted item is purchased) and then held as verified to purchase age restricted items moving forward. Then the items should just be delivered as normal.