eBay is pinning its hopes on social networking site Pinterest, which is one of the strongest channels for eBay in terms of driving traffic and sales, an eBay executive told attendees of a conference last week, and he used a Read more
Amazon sellers got an unwelcome surprise this week when they discovered new seller performance metrics in their dashboards. The new “Customer Service Dissatisfaction Rate” is the percentage of customers who are not satisfied with a seller’s responses in Buyer-Seller Messaging. Read more
Amazon launched its Prime Now super-fast delivery service in Italy this week. A Google translation of the Amazon Prime Now Italian site says the service is offered “in Milan and the surrounding areas.” Users must be members of Amazon Prime – the Read more
The US Postal Service expects to deliver about 15.5 billion cards, letters, flats, and packages during the 2015 holiday season. And it expects to deliver 600 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, a 10.5% increase over last year’s Read more
eBay issued an announcement on Thursday to warn sellers to check their dashboards to get a preview of new seller standards that are rolling out February 20, 2016, writing, “A preview of your performance is now available in your seller dashboard.” When Read more
The eight-year-old Twitch.tv has been a vibrant focal point primarily for video gamers who use it to share their gameplay with anyone who wants to watch. Twitch claims to have millions of broadcasters using the service, with the most popular ones earning Read more
Etsy is making some changes to its search algorithm that it uses to determine the order that listings are displayed when shoppers are searching for items. Going forward, Etsy will factor in seller performance metrics such as positive reviews and Read more
eBay plays an unwitting role in triangulation fraud, according to security expert and blogger Brian Krebs, who warns that sellers should be wary of shoppers who ask to send their orders to a different address from their billing address. This Read more
Online retailers are getting into the holiday spirit, and many are using “Black Friday” as a much broader term than originally conceived by their brick-and-mortar brethren. Case in point: Amazon, which just launched a Black Friday Deals store that offers deals now Read more
Users are reporting massive problems with eBay’s website, particularly sellers. While not a hard outage, various features needed by sellers to complete tasks are unusable. EcommerceBytes noticed a rash of problems being reported on Monday, with matters only getting worse Read more
