Amazon have teamed up with Mermaids

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Just seen on Twitter

I did, via my account and on-line chat, so they have a record of my lack of orders. No reply

I am pretty certain they don't care about what I think and are mainly concerned with how they appear to a group of Californian billionaires.

Equally I am happy to scroll down Google a bit further to find alternative suppliers. Especially those who pay taxes and are more environmentally friendly (less packaging, supporting the high street, and fewer delivery vans.)

I had a response to my complaint:

"Thank you for writing to Amazon.co.uk. We value all feedback from our customers and your correspondence has been forwarded to the relevant team internally.

We rely on the Charity Commission, the official charity regulator in England and Wales, to determine which organisations are eligible to participate. If a charity no longer has charitable status and has been removed from the Commission’s register, we will remove them from the service. The organisation in question is approved by the Charity Commission, however, due to the serious nature of these concerns, we have referred these allegations to the Commission and will be conducting a full review to ensure they do not violate our policies."

In a nutshell I said I had safeguarding concerns about their online chat facility and that they appeared to go against the NHS 'watchful waiting' approach.

Has anyone else had a response?

Well done snippypants.

I just got the reference to the Charities Commission. I assume they have started to see a few complaints and have decided to take a second look.

Good. How that lot maintain a charitable status I'll never know.

Would there be any traction in complaining to the charity commission? They say to complain to the charity first unless you have concerns about a serious matter such as abuse.

I think concerns about child safeguarding is a big enough concern. Also they kept putting out very wrong information about puberty blockers after the NHS had changed their guidelines. I worked for a medical charity and we had to make very sure that we did not give advice that was not evidence based. Everything we put on out website had to have solid research behind it.

www.gov.uk/complain-about-charity

I think it’s worth using that link to
complain about a charity if you have safeguarding concerns - for example if they are encouraging children to keep secrets from parents, or encourage children to use private chat facilities.

And you could also complain if you have concerns that a charity gives misleading or inaccurate information as well, for example providing medical advise which isn’t supported by the NHS guidelines.

I think the public need to always report concerns, look at what happened with kidscape- they weren’t accountable to anyone for a long time and things when badly wrong there.

I think it’s worth using that link to complain about a charity if you have safeguarding concerns - for example if they are encouraging children to keep secrets from parents, or encourage children to use private chat facilities.

In order to join Mermaids' 'youth forum' for teens, children are told they have to give a phone number: "This is so a member of the admin team can call you for a confidential chat prior to approving your membership. Our number will come-up as "withheld" when we call. This is for complete confidentiality."

mermaidsuk.org.uk/young-people/mermaids-youth-community-application/

Mermaids are encouraging children to give personal details to a person they don't know, who phones them from a withheld number.

I went to complain last week then saw the bit about complaining to the charity first. If it's ok to do so I'll complain direct on the Gov site. Mermaids make my skin crawl and my blood boil, preying on vulnerable children and raking in cash from gullible idiots.

It takes the story away from their overcrowded warehouses, serf employment practices and unsafe working conditions. Costs barely nothing but woke washes the business.
Nothing to see here ! Woke washing in action.

Wasn’t there talk of one of their mega warehouses having workers testing positive for COVID-19 and possibly working conditions and contracts being directly responsible.
How convenient that the story gets diverted.
Don’t fall for it !

Is this for US Amazon too?