PayPal is facing a lawsuit from federal regulators, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) had initiated a probe info Bill Me Later, now known as PayPal Credit, in 2013. PayPal acquired the company in 2008 Read more
Google has once again been exploited by scammers using doorway pages to drive shoppers to their websites. A website with the country code for Peru has scraped Etsy listings in order to get exposure in Google search results, and it’s Read more
When Australia’s Temando raised $50 million in funding, it shared some interesting insight into the changing world of fulfillment and shipping for large retailers. Retailers must now have the ability to automatically recommend the most cost-effective shipping route from the Read more
Remember the recent blog post, “Kohl’s Bans eBay and Amazon Sellers,” about sellers who buy items from chainstores to resell online, a practice some called retail arbitrage, and how some of those stores were starting to ban resellers? The Wall Street Journal turned Read more
PayPal can pursue a joint venture with Amazon or Alibaba after its breakup with eBay later this year, without having to get approval from eBay, according to eBay CEO John Donahoe in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. PayPal updated Read more
Etsy has revamped its Seller Handbook, a resource for the 1.4 million users who actively sell on the site. The handbook offers content designed to educate and inspire sellers, and Nadine Heintz, Group Manager of Seller Communications, told EcommerceBytes the Read more
eBay is inviting certain sellers to participate in a new promotion that encourages them to list in the auction format. The marketplace suggested users sell secondhand items to pay for summer fun; to sell used sports apparel; and to sell Read more
Russia is enlisting the aid of Internet companies to potentially help keep tabs on citizens’ online behavior. eBay and PayPal will conform to a controversial Russian law about storing user data, according to the Moscow Times. eBay has made no Read more
Do you want eBay shoppers to see a breakdown of S&H so they can see how much you charge for handling? Many do not, but an eBay seller noticed a change in the way the marketplace displays his costs to Read more
After a failed attempt to sell itself to UPS, TNT Express has entered into an agreement with FedEx. According to a joint press release, the two companies said they had reached conditional agreement on a recommended all-cash public offer of Read more
