Etsy expanded its practice of collecting VAT tax for sales in Europe, much to the relief of many sellers who sell digital goods and services on the online marketplace. As EcommerceBytes previously reported, the European Union changed its rules last month. Read more
Yahoo is casting off its ecommerce business, including Yahoo Stores, later this year when it spins off its Yahoo Small Business unit. YSB will move over to a new public company, currently referred to as “SpinCo,” along with Yahoo’s approximately Read more
eBay warned sellers in Australia of higher shipping costs from that country’s postal service. Australia Post will be making price adjustments to selected parcel products, including certain rates impacting an eBay co-branded flat-rate shipping box, it told sellers. Australia Post Read more
Amazon notified sellers in the UK of a new policy around the way it displays shipping delivery estimates to customers. Effective March 2, 2015, Amazon UK will display new shipping transit times for listings from professional sellers in all categories. Read more
Top officials at the U.S. Postal Service are looking to the shipping and Standard Mail lines of business to help the cash-strapped agency offset sustained declines in First Class Mail. Buoyed by double-digit growth in shipping and package volume, the Read more
The results are in, and Etsy is the winner of the 2015 Sellers Choice Awards for online marketplaces, followed by Amazon, Bonanza, Ruby Lane and eBay. Each year, EcommerceBytes asks online sellers to rate the marketplaces on which they sell. Read more
Operators of the popular cash-back shopping service BigCrumbs took the site offline after discovering some members’ accounts had been compromised. BigCrumbs.com CEO Vince Martin said an unknown party gained unauthorized access to a number of member accounts, but it was not a Read more
eBay is failing to collecting shipping charges for some transactions, leaving sellers in the lurch, as we reported Thursday. We still haven’t heard back from eBay, nor has the company issued a report on its Systems Announcement Board. A reader spent Read more
As the U.S. Postal Service increases efforts to take business away from UPS and FedEx, UPS is asking the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to require USPS to be more forthcoming with information about its competitive products. In a filing on Read more
eBay is running a free listing promotion and tying it in with its Global Shipping Program. However, it’s an invitation-only promotion, and sellers must activate it before they will receive free listings. Recipients of the invitation were told, “Grow your Read more
