Amazon is helping Chinese businesses sell internationally and is on a mission to help them build their own globally recognized brands, though the extra competition may not go over so well with merchants in domestic markets outside China. Amazon China Read more
eBay is discontinuing its new bulk label printing tool, though it gave sellers no warning. Sellers began reporting the tool missing in late July via the eBay discussion boards. It appears eBay will begin automatically directed sellers to a previous version Read more
PayPal hired a new PR executive to help manage the company’s brand, according to PR Week. Ben Edwards will work to help consumers understand how PayPal can offer safer, simpler, and more affordable ways to manage and move money. He will Read more
Etsy is testing a new navigation bar, and vintage sellers who often feel overlooked can breathe a sigh of relief, as Vintage is one of the eight categories highlighted. Etsy explained the new nav bar “helps shoppers more immediately understand Read more
eBay is using machine learning and “deep learning” to help determine what a shopper is looking for when they enter a search term. eBay researcher Hassan Sawaf heads the team tasked with developing tools and services in language technology – Read more
It’s a whole new world where regular Joes and Janes can become hotelier (AirBnB), taxi driver (Uber), or venture capitalist (Kickstarter) with an app and little else. But while we’re all getting used to our family, friends, and neighbors taking Read more
Etsy launched a Seller Account Management program to provide its top sellers access to account managers. An Etsy spokesperson told EcommerceBytes the program offers tailored, high-touch support to some of the marketplace’s most active sellers. “Sellers in the program are Read more
eBay is running a couple of promotions that sellers say are causing some conflicts. The first problem has to do with a promotion offering 500 free listings to US sellers across many categories, described in this Newsflash article. A seller wrote Read more
Amazon.com will build its first fulfillment center in Illinois in Joliet, a significant occurrence given the history between the marketplace and the state. Illinois had been off limits for years due to Amazon’s refusal to collect sales tax from residents Read more
Merchants who advertise products on Amazon got some confusing news on Tuesday. Amazon is discontinuing the Product Ads program, and it’s replacing it with a new Text Ads program. A spokesperson told EcommerceBytes that Amazon Text Ads are a new pay-per-click Read more
