Several weeks before the eclipse, as reports of suspicious glasses surfaced, “Amazon took down virtually every storefront selling eclipse glasses, including ones from legitimate manufacturers and their authorized dealers,” said Dr. Fienberg of the American Astronomical Society. The company then sent emails to many customers warning them that they may have received eclipse glasses that couldn’t be verified as safe. Mr. Panjwani sold around 30,000 eclipse glasses through Amazon. After reviewing the documentation, the offers from sellers with compliant eclipse glasses remained available to customers. She’d told me this in an exchange, which ended when I clarified that I was a reporter from The New York Times, not a buyer of eclipse glasses.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2017 09:56 UTC