A Florida company has sued over 150 companies over the ability to click a link and track packages during shipping, according to Bloomberg BNA. Shipping and Transit LLC owns patents related to monitoring vehicles’ movement and has filed infringement lawsuits Read more
Amazon called Prime Day 2016 a “record-breaking success” for participating sellers and small businesses, reporting that sellers who offered deals to Prime members saw orders nearly triple year-over-year on Prime Day, both worldwide and in the US. As most Amazon Read more
Etsy is rolling out a new design for Etsy Conversations, or Convos as users call the member-to-member messaging system. The changes are primarily cosmetic according to the company and, as with most changes companies roll out these days, they are designed Read more
eBay is testing a new program in the UK to make it easier for people to sell unwanted goods on its marketplace. While many are familiar with eBay’s well publicized efforts to bring structured data to its site, another key Read more
eBay tried to reassure sellers in Canada that they should return to listing on the site. Online merchants have been spooked by the looming threat of a disruption to mail service in Canada due to a dispute between Canada Post Read more
eBay has consolidated its B2B (business-to-business) offerings under one brand and announced the launch of “eBay Business Supply” on Tuesday. “The rebranded experience centralizes eBay’s B2B offerings,” the company said. eBay Business Supply brings its Business & Industrial category, SAP Ariba Read more
If nothing else, Amazon Prime Day is a success from a marketing and PR standpoint – everyone has been buzzing about the July 12th shopping event. But sellers want to know, are they benefitting from the hordes of shoppers coming Read more
Etsy sellers continue to struggle with certain types of transactions thanks to the widely-publicized payments processing problems that began on July 1st. No refunds and no cancellations were going through, one EcommerceBytes reader explained this week. “Refunds are getting bounced Read more
A day before holding its second annual Prime Day shopping event, Amazon announced plans for yet another fulfillment center, this one in Kansas City, Kansas. The Amazon Prime program was started as a membership program to get free, fast shipping Read more
Remember when buyers would determine the prices of items on eBay by how much they were willing to bid? Now that eBay has deliberately moved away from the auction model, it is trying to understand pricing and will acquire a Read more
