Etsy Is (Technically) Funding Coupons in Targeted Promotions

February 10, 2026

Etsy-funded promotions that give customers an incentive to purchase again aren’t new by any stretch, but when one landed in our inbox this week with the subject line “15% off …

Shopping Paradox: People Are Cutting Back but Spending More

February 10, 2026

How can people be spending more if they are cutting back on holiday gifts, including for Valentine’s Day? A survey by marketing firm Omnisend found that 23% of consumers said …

ChatGPT Ads Launch a Day after Being Mocked in Super Bowl Commercials

February 9, 2026

Anthropic ran ads during Sunday’s Super Bowl football game that mocked its rival OpenAI for its decision to run ads on its AI chatbox, though it didn’t mention it by …

eBay Disappears the Auto Price-Reduction Feature

February 8, 2026

You know that an eBay feature is popular with at least some sellers when it suddenly disappears, as was the case with eBay’s Auto Price Reduction feature on Tuesday. Sellers …

eBay Celebrates Local Super Bowl with Live Shopping, Bay-Area Watch Party

February 5, 2026

eBay is holding live shopping events online and in real life to tie in with Sunday’s Super Bowl game, which is taking place in the Bay Area where eBay’s headquarters …

Amazon Grows Sales 10% in North America in Q4 2025

February 5, 2026

Amazon grew total sales 14% in the fourth quarter of 2025, year-over-year (or 12% FX-neutral). North America segment sales increased 10% year-over-year, international segment sales increased 17% year-over-year (or 11% …

Amazon Touts Prime’s Speed, Selection, and Rural Reach

February 3, 2026

Amazon boasted that Prime members in the US received over 8 billion items the same or next day in 2025, over 30% more compared to 2024. It estimated that members …

New eBay for Sellers Webinars: Ad Strategies, Store Enhancements & AI

February 3, 2026

eBay will host new monthly live-webinars for sellers, each focused on a single topic. The first will tackle advertising strategies, and next month’s session will tackle “Store Enhancements & AI.” …

Walmart Offers Incentives for Reviews – Don’t Try This at Home

February 3, 2026

Did you know that Walmart offers a program that lets third-party sellers give incentives to buyers to leave reviews? However, Walmart’s Post-Purchase Reviews program is not available to all sellers …

USPS Delivered Duty Paid Launches for Outbound Packages

February 1, 2026

USPS launched a new service for shippers who send goods internationally called USPS Delivered Duty Paid (DDP). Announced on Friday, it is currently available for packages going to Canada, Germany, …

Amazon Changes How It Charges FBA Removal and Disposal Fees

January 30, 2026

Amazon is changing how it charges sellers for removing and disposing of products stored in its FBA fulfillment centers. The fees themselves are not changing. However, Amazon will charge FBA …

Facebook Founder Sees Agentic Shopping as an Ecommerce Opportunity

January 29, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, said this week he sees agentic shopping as an opportunity, but there was no indication Facebook will morph into an Amazon or eBay, …

Would You Trust Amazon with Your QuickBooks?

January 27, 2026

Amazon is inviting sellers to use QuickBooks accounting in Seller Central, something it had promised to do last year. It’s a somewhat surprising move since sellers have long been suspicious …

How to Turn off eBay Live Notifications

January 26, 2026

Notifications on mobile phones can be helpful, but sometimes they can verge on the annoying or can cause technical issues. Case in point: today, someone asked on the eBay discussion …

Tariffs Changed How Buyers Shop, with Some Advice for Online Sellers

January 26, 2026

The number of Americans who support tariffs are up from last year, according to a new survey by Omnisend. That’s despite the fact that 56% of respondents said they believed …

Walmart Marketplace Opens Curated ‘Premium’ Musical Instruments Shop

January 24, 2026

Walmart Marketplace has expanded into “premium” musical instruments – both new and used – as part of its focus on broadening selection, a strategy that has helped Amazon enormously and …

Amazon Narrows SAFE-T Claims Window for Sellers to 30 Days

January 24, 2026

Amazon is making an unpopular change to a program that already receives criticism for what some sellers feel is a failure to protect them. Amazon announced on Wednesday, January 21, …

USPS Warns of Disruptions Due to Weekend Storm

January 22, 2026

USPS said it is suspending its service guarantee for all Priority Mail Express shipments citing major winter weather impacts across the country. The Priority Mail Express service guarantee will temporarily …

eBay Bans AI Shopping Agents, Updates Arbitration Provision

January 21, 2026

eBay has long tried to stop other companies from scraping its site, and in the fall, it quietly added “buy for me” AI agents to the list of prohibited crawlers …

Amazon Executive Shares AI Hack: Get Price-Drop Alerts

January 20, 2026

On Tuesday we published an article about eBay executives’ thoughts on AI and agentic shopping, including three of the ways they said AI would impact ecommerce. But Amazon executives also …

USPS Loosens Amazon’s Grip on Its Last-Mile Delivery

January 20, 2026

USPS has been negotiating with a very small number of large businesses – including Amazon – to deliver their packages to the 170 million addresses the USPS serves. But what …

eBay Identifies 3 Ways AI Will Impact Ecommerce

January 18, 2026

eBay executives shared their thoughts about AI and agentic shopping in a post on the eBay corporate blog on January 16th. The post comes amid a busy month of AI-related …