Important: If you supply products for sale on Amazon, you must comply with all
federal, provincial, and local laws and Amazon policies applicable to those products and
product listings.
Electrical products must be certified in accordance with the Canadian Electrical Code
issued by the Canadian Standards Association (“CSA”) and adopted by Canada’s
Provinces and Territories. Radio and Wireless equipment must also comply with
Canada’s Radio Communications Act.
Streaming media players
Products offered for sale on Amazon should not promote, suggest the facilitation of, or
actively enable the infringement of or unauthorized access to digital media or other
protected content. Any streaming media player or other device that violates this policy is
prohibited from sale on Amazon.
It's your responsibility to source and sell products that do not promote, promise the
facilitation of, or actively enable the infringement of or unauthorized access to
digital media or other protected content. If you sell these products, we may
immediately suspend or terminate your selling privileges and destroy inventory in
our fulfilment centres without reimbursement. In addition, if we determine that your
account has been used to engage in fraud or other illegal activity, remittances and
payments may be withheld or forfeited.
Examples of permitted listings
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Electrical products that carry the official mark or label of a certification
agency that has been approved by the Standards Council of Canada.
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Class 1 lasers (such as CD players), Class 2
lasers (such as bar code scanners), and Class 3R lasers (for example, laser pointers),
that conform to applicable standards and are sold for use pursuant to those standards
Examples of prohibited listings
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Electrical products that do not carry the official mark or label of a
certification agency that has been approved by the Standards Council of
Canada.
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Products where the serial number has been
removed or altered.
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Ozone generators
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Products that incorporate Class 3B lasers and
Class 4 lasers.
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Laser pointers and related products that have
not been approved for sale on Amazon. (To submit a request to sell laser pointers and
related products in any category, see Laser Pointers and Related Products.)
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Video game controllers that modify rather than
replace existing technology in a video game.
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Video game controllers (including cards or
other devices) that replace existing technology in a video game.
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Sets of video game products that are sold
together, such as the "Xbox 360 Core Bundle with 2 Controllers and 2 Games" or the "Sony
PlayStation Portable (PSP) Bundle with 5 Games."
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DVD duplicators that bypass copyright
protections.
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Blu-ray players that have been modified to
disable region coding.
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Cell phone unlocking devices.
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Cell phones with bad electronic serial numbers
(ESN).
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Micro SIM cards modified from standard size SIM
cards.
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Certain streaming media players, listed
here. In recent years, Prime Video has
become an important part of Prime. It is important that the streaming media
players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer
confusion.
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Cylindrical lithium ion cell battery types: 14500, 16340, 18650, 20700, 21700,
and 26650; as well as all products that include these battery types, even if the
battery is not contained with the product.
Additional useful information
Last updated 08/13/2021