Last year, Amazon told Congress that Chinese sellers can ship low-weight orders to American buyers at significantly cheaper rates than are available to domestic sellers. It cited an example: the cost to ship a one-pound package from South Carolina to New York Read more
eBay sellers who have been experiencing glitches over the past several days are concerned they could be having a negative impact on sales. One major issue that continued into Monday involves what appears to be an intermittent failure to display Read more
Etsy reassured sellers on Monday after sellers noticed on Friday that the marketplace was displaying their personal names on customer email receipts instead of their business names. Many sellers are vigilant about protecting personal information online, and some posting on Read more
The Carl Icahn-instigated “eBay Breakup” officially took place at the end of a Friday afternoon last summer, with PayPal going public the following Monday on July 20, 2015. One year later, the companies are faring much as expected. For sellers, Read more
Apparently Californians can’t get enough of the products offered through Amazon Prime. Amazon will add a tenth fulfillment center in California, making the Sacramento facility the fourth California fulfillment center Amazon has announced in the past four months and the Read more
eBay acquired Ticket Utils to expand the capabilities of its StubHub marketplace. Ticket Utils helps large ticket sellers manage inventory and distribution, the company announced on Thursday. It will also let ticket sellers set up online stores. eBay said it Read more
This month, Etsy experienced one of the longest-duration marketplace payment problems we can recall, and now the situation has taken another ugly twist as Etsy charged some buyers a second time for single purchases made several days or more than Read more
We’ve been hearing a lot about eBay’s Structured Data initiative, but on Thursday, eBay Chief Technology Officer Steve Fisher wrote about a bigger plan to “replatform” the marketplace. “We have embarked on an ambitious, multi-year evolution of our shopping platform Read more
Mastercard unveiled a new digital payment service three years ago called Masterpass, but it has not proven itself a major threat to PayPal. On Thursday, Mastercard announced a revamped Masterpass that it called an important industry milestone: consumers can now make simple Read more
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees postal matters, unanimously approved a reform bill July 12. In announcing the bill, Committee Chairman Chaffetz called the outlook for the Postal Service “grim” without improvements contained in the bill. Postmaster General Read more
