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
Sellers who signed up to participate in a new pilot program can now try it out. eBay officially opened the Returns Resolution Pilot program on Tuesday after announcing it as part of the Fall Seller Update changes. The new pilot Read more
Etsy grew Gross Merchandise Sales (GMS) 21.7% in the third quarter year-over-year to $568.8 million driven by growth in active buyers and sellers. The company reported a net loss of $6.9 million compared with a $6.3 million net loss in Read more
eBay completed the previously announced sale of its enterprise unit. The new owners paid $925 million and have further separated the unit into four distinct businesses. Enterprise Operations & Enterprise Technology Services is owned by Sterling Partners. The Magento Commerce Read more
PayPal is running a holiday television ad campaign in the UK with the theme, “Check out before they know it.” The TV ads emphasize the ease of shopping on smartphones and tablets using PayPal to pay for their holiday gifts. Read more
eBay launched its new holiday marketing campaign on Monday. The “Wish Bigger” campaign includes a new holiday hub at eBay.com/holidays that displays links to featured deals in such groupings as Holiday Entertaining, Holiday Dressing, and Laptops & Tablets, as well specific items Read more
eBay sent invitations to an exclusive group of sellers last week, inviting them to participate in a “returns resolution” pilot program, which was revealed as part of the Fall Seller Update. eBay spokesperson Karen Crocker Snell told EcommerceBytes last month that participating Read more
Amazon is jettisoning its payments card reader that it marketed to local merchants and is ditching its Amazon Local daily deals. Word of Amazon’s latest discards late last week came close on the heels of its announcement that it would end Read more
eBay is advising sellers to get an early start when it comes to complying with its upcoming product identifier requirements, saying it would give them an edge – “Help holiday shoppers find your items by adding product identifiers to your Read more
A power outage at a data center on Thursday evening was able to bring PayPal to its knees and wreak havoc for independent merchants as well as buyers and sellers on eBay and Etsy – and the problem proved quite Read more
