The Ultralight Gummy Bear Power Bank Just Got Yanked From Amazon

Amazon conscionable yanked nan Haribo gummy carnivore powerfulness slope from its website and is canceling orders for nan ultralight device. In an email sent to customers, Amazon says it has “learned of a imaginable information aliases value issue” regarding nan powerfulness bank, and that it’s not charging customers who precocious purchased it.

The gummy carnivore taxable whitethorn beryllium a spot deceiving, but astatine 9.9 ounces, nan $25 Haribo Mini Power Bank is 1 of nan lightest 20,000mAh powerfulness banks around, making it a celebrated prime for backpackers (or anyone other who doesn’t consciousness for illustration carrying astir a hefty device). Now, nan Amazon listing for nan powerfulness bank nary longer exists, and we don’t cognize erstwhile — aliases if — it’s coming back.

As mentioned by my workfellow Liz Lopatto, nan Haribo Mini Power Bank comes pinch a built-in USB-C cable, on pinch support for accelerated charging. An archived type of nan listing besides says it has a spot designed “to protect nan powerfulness slope from overcharging, overheating, and overpowering.” The instrumentality appears to beryllium portion of a crowdfunded marque collaboration successful Japan, which includes different Haribo-themed 10,000mAh mini power slope that’s now listed arsenic “currently unavailable” connected Amazon.

“We regret immoderate inconvenience this whitethorn origin you but spot you will understand that nan information and restitution of our customers is our highest priority,” Amazon writes successful its email to customers. The Verge reached retired to Haribo and Amazon pinch requests for much accusation but didn’t instantly perceive back.