The Amazon Prime membership program is incredibly important to the company, and this week, Amazon made a bold move by making it available to customers on a monthly pay-as-you-go plan. Previously it was available only as an annual plan (with Read more
Amazon continues to see rapid growth in product selection in key categories in large part due to third-party merchants, according to a new report from Wall Street firm RW Baird, which completed its 13th Amazon selection survey of Amazon.com (not Read more
Amazon does well in online retail, but as previously noted in our discussion of Amazon Exclusives there are ways for individual sellers to thrive on Amazon’s platform as well. Part of seller success starts with visibility in Amazon search results. Achieving effective Read more
Poshmark is the envy of larger, well established marketplaces as it lands another $25 million from investors to continue on its path to bring ecommerce to the fashion minded. The company calls itself “the largest community marketplace for fashion where Read more
Criminals are using a new twist in their efforts to defraud people online via phishing emails, and some victims suspect the fraudsters could be mining eBay user data, according to the BBC. We were alerted to the problem in this Read more
Online sellers who rely on the USPS to pick up packages from their location were disappointed recently to find the service curtailed. As a reader told EcommerceBytes, “USPS apparently has discontinued scheduled pick-ups unless the sender has at least one Read more
Etsy announced Thursday that it had completed the rollout of its new design of the Shop Home page – it is now available to all members on all browsers. Etsy first announced the new design in March, explaining, “The new design brings Read more
eBay is taking a new approach to the way it displays products to online shoppers that goes far beyond traditional keyword search results, it announced this week. The structured data eBay refers to as being “the key to unlocking this Read more
Is it fair for online marketplaces to give higher rankings in search results to listings from sellers located in the country in which the shopper resides? Or should buyers have the ability to control geographic search preferences themselves? That’s at Read more
Daimler AG filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Monday for trademark infringement, design patent infringement, false advertising, unfair competition, and other complaints for allegedly selling replica Mercedes wheels that were not authorized or sold by Daimler. The case is interesting Read more
