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Three of the UK's biggest retailers, including online giant Amazon, are customers to of hoverboards amid safety concerns. There have many online reports of the toy catching fire and exploding. Stores have consumers they will a refund if they their hoverboard to a special recycling centre for electronic equipment. They have manufacturers to these safety issues. Hoverboards are self-balancing, two-wheeled scooters that can users like a skateboard, but without using any physical effort. They are currently one of the most popular gifts for children this Christmas and the retailers' decision will many kids hoping for the popular device.

Electrical Safety First, a consumer protection group in the UK, that around half-a-million people in the UK have a hoverboard as a Christmas gift. Another million people have it on their shopping list in the run-up to Christmas Day. Britain's largest bricks-and-mortar retailer Tesco said: "We've the sale of all hoverboards, both in store and online, as a precautionary measure." Amazon said of the call to of the hoverboards: "We the inconvenience this may cause you but you will understand that your safety and satisfaction is our highest priority." Hoverboards cannot used on public roads in Britain because they not been as vehicles.