Are you familiar with the term, “Inventory Days to Zero”? Monitoring this metric can help you avoid running out of stock, and it’s just one of several performance indicators sellers should be watching. Rob McGrorty of Webgility is back with Read more
Back when eBay founder Pierre Omidyar was a boy playing with his Pez dispensers and the number of Internet users could be counted on two hands, my grandmother was a telephone operator. She sat before a huge board full of Read more
Auction site Proxibid reported double-digit growth in online sales in 2015 and a nearly 50% increase in Merchandise Value (GMV) compared to 2014. The company attributes the strong growth in part to a partnership with eBay. “Company growth was fueled Read more
Best Buy opened its site to third-party merchants in 2011, and today, February 24, 2016, it is cutting them loose with the closure of its Marketplace business. The closure affects only the US marketplace on BestBuy.com. EcommerceBytes broke the news on Tuesday Read more
Etsy grew Gross Merchandise Sales 21.3% to $741.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, the company revealed Tuesday when it released earnings. It said the growth was driven by a 15.5% year-over-year growth in active sellers and 21.4% year-over-year Read more
“What will eBay do with $750 million?” a reader asked upon reading that the company was raising that amount by offering 6% notes. According to eBay’s press release on Monday, it expects its offering of $750 million in senior unsecured notes to Read more
eBay is running a free-listing promotion, and unlike most seller promos in the UK, it’s not limited to private (casual) sellers. But while the week-long promo is for business sellers, it’s also by invitation only. Sellers who receive an invitation Read more
PayPal is keeping busy – it launched a new marketing campaign called New Money that kicked off with a Super Bowl TV ad earlier this month, and last week it announced it had redesigned its mobile app. This week at the Read more
The head of eBay’s North American Marketplaces revealed on Monday that he has become a Top Rated Seller. Hal Lawton came to eBay from The Home Depot last April and invited users to visit his eBay Store to see what he has Read more
Some sellers were caught off guard when they saw a new metric in their seller dashboards beginning on Friday. The Return Rate metric shows the percentage of returns broken down by category, prompting rampant speculation about how eBay might be Read more
