Valentine’s Day gift-givers will spend $19.7 billion, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), and eBay and Amazon are among the online marketplaces and merchants working hard to woo them. While that figure includes flowers, dinner, and a movie, that’s Read more
eBay appealed to international postal services to solve problems in cross-border parcel delivery, pointing to small businesses around the world who rely on postal shipping services. Stefan Krawczyk, head of Government Relations International at eBay, gave a keynote address at Read more
Etsy held a workshop this week to address questions about shipping. The marketplace invited sellers to post their questions and comments ahead of time on a dedicated discussion board thread, and then members of its shipping team responded. Among those Read more
What happens when shoppers can’t complete their purchases on Amazon for several hours on a Tuesday night? They turn to social networking sites in despair. Thousands of Amazon customers visited sites like Twitter, DownDetector.com, and IsItDownRightNow to see if they Read more
