Pinterest is working with ecommerce platforms to bring buyable pins to its social networking site, and it will be using customers’ purchase history to serve up targeted ads. As a result, it is updating its Privacy Policy, it told users Read more
Angie’s List sued Amazon Local and its employees this month, accusing them of stealing proprietary information and violating its membership agreement. Both services offer a way for consumers to connect to local businesses and service providers – think plumbers and Read more
PayPal apologized to users over its so-called “robocall” policy on Monday and said it was updating its User Agreement. The provision gave PayPal the right to robocall or robo-text users at for any reason, from debt collecting to advertisements to Read more
Online buyers and sellers are highly suspicious of algorithms that search engines and online marketplaces use to determine the sort order of search results. A new study gives credence to their suspicions, alleging that the king of search, Google, is Read more
eBay is running a free-listing promotion for private (casual) sellers in the UK. The sale is by invitation only, and invited private sellers must actively opt in in order to receive the free listings. “We know you love selling, so Read more
Amazon experienced an outage on Thursday that left sellers unable to complete tasks for well over 3 hours. The only positive aspect of the outage was that it did not appear to impact shoppers’ ability to search or purchase goods. Read more
A marketing campaign designed to get eBay customers re-engaged went terribly wrong recently, and shoppers are underwhelmed by eBay’s attempt to placate them after it reneged on the offer. eBay UK had sent shoppers coupons for 20% off a purchase Read more
eBay announced on Friday that the separation with PayPal will be completed by July 17th, and over the weekend, PayPal sent an email to customers to let them know what they could expect after it becomes an independent company, and Read more
eBay’s jettisoning of PayPal will be complete by July 17th, it announced on Friday, at which point the Marketplaces business will have to stand on its own. But sellers can likely expect no major changes when it comes to how Read more
eBay is running a 5-day promotion to encourage sellers to list longer-duration listings using the fixed-price format. Sellers can list up to 1,000 fixed-price listings over the course of the 5 days and pay no insertion fees. However, they must Read more
