Sky.Garden, a Kenyan e-commerce platform for electronics and home products such as furniture, removed 1,500 of its 30,000 vendors in a clean up of counterfeit goods. The company dismissed claims that some vendors were boycotting the platform.
We have not observed any boycotts from vendors. However, we recently conducted a thorough cleanup of the marketplace. This process involved removing brokers and sellers of counterfeit or substandard goods, Sky.Garden told TechCabal in a statement.
The e-commerce platform has also removed brokers who falsely claimed to be sellers. Brokers help vendors sell their products on marketplaces, but they do not own any merchandise.
Sky.Gardens crackdown on counterfeit goods conflicts with claims by at least three vendors that they were unfairly removed from the platform. Several other vendors stopped posting their products on Sky.Gardens e-commerce site, those people claimed.
At least five customers also told TechCabal that their electronic orders from Sky.Garden were never delivered and the company promised refunds.
