Now Amazon is refunding people who bought hoverboards

“As encouraged as I am by Amazon’s actions, I expect other retailers and manufacturers of hoverboards to take action and offer a full refund now to their customers as well,” said the agency’s chairman Elliot Kaye.

Last month, Overstock was the first major retailer to offer customers who bought the self-balancing electric boards — and even pulled them from its site.

But, Amazon hasn’t gone that far because search reveals that it’s still selling the inexplicably popular items. The company didn’t immediately reply for comment on whether it’s going to follow Overstock’s lead and also stop selling them.

Hoverboards, which don’t actually hover, have attracted the government’s attention recently after a spate of viral videos showed the devices blowing up while in use. The cause is the hastily built lithium ion batteries and cheap manufacturing, with many of them built in China.

That’s led to an outright ban on them from being used at many universities, city streets, or stadiums and being barred from being brought onboard on major airlines, like United Airlines.