With new postage rates taking effect on Sunday, eBay set up a live-chat session on Wednesday to answer questions about the USPS negotiated shipping rates it would offer sellers through its online postage service. There were several key points to Read more
eBay said 97% of its small business sellers in the US sell outside of the country, and 64% of them sell to four or more continents. Can you guess the top five destinations for exports from US eBay sellers? The Read more
Etsy is running two Fireside Chats on the topic of entrepreneurship, one with Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson. The next Fireside Chat will take place on January 19th, and joining host Heather Jassy, who is Etsy Senior Vice President of Members Read more
PayPal continues to be intrigued with innovative payment methods and on Wednesday the company named Bitcoin expert Wences Casares to its Board of Directors. In the announcement, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said Casares’ focus on next-generation payment and crypto-currency was Read more
The biggest brands in ecommerce seek the best placement on Google’s heavily-trafficked real estate. Among US brands, the Etsy marketplace made the most impressive gains on Google’s page one of search results in 2015 compared to 2014. While not a Read more
eBay is running a 7-day listing promotion for registered business sellers through January 17th. Invited sellers can create up to 50,000 listings using the fixed price format on eBay.co.uk – but they must actively opt in to the promotion. Sellers Read more
Etsy is experiencing a bug that is presumably impacting a small number of sellers, but because of major policy changes – compounded by the way it’s communicating with sellers in a thread about the glitch – a number of sellers Read more
Online sellers in Europe are now required to provide a link to a new platform offering consumers Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) services. The former director of online dispute resolution for eBay and PayPal Colin Rule hailed the move as evidence Read more
People often marvel that you can find books on Amazon listed by third-party sellers going for a single penny. It’s not a new phenomenon, but will the USPS postage hike going into effect on Sunday impact penny books? The Wall Read more
Alabama is defying a 1992 Supreme Court ruling about out-of-state sales-tax collection requirements, and catalog companies are warning that similar regulations could quickly spread to other states. The regulation, which took effect on January 1st, reads in part: “…an out-of-state Read more
