Just as Amazon wants the smart-key to your front door to deliver your items inside, the ecommerce giant now wants to deliver items inside your car. Amazon Prime members who own Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, and Volvo automobiles can download Read more
Amazon offers sellers the ability to purchase shipping through its platform for non-FBA orders, called Amazon Buy Shipping and available in Seller Central. It launched a new feature that gives sellers greater flexibility when printing shipping labels through the program: Read more
Amazon is temporarily allowing sellers who use its FBA fulfillment service to remove slow-selling inventory at no charge thanks to fee changes it had announced in March. On March 1st, Amazon announced it would assess Long Term Storage fees (LTS) Read more
eBay CEO Devin Wenig was appointed to the board of General Motors. The company said he brings his “significant expertise in technology, global operations and strategic planning” to the board. Wenig tweeted the news, saying his professional passion was the Read more
ShipStation added a new feature called “Scan to Print” to help online sellers be more efficient when printing shipping labels. ShipStation is web-based shipping solution that helps merchants import, organize, process, and ship their ecommerce orders. Press release follows: ShipStation, Read more
eBay now wants to discourage sellers from listing a single item in multiple categories, and in February, the company announced a fee change as part of that effort. Under the “Inventory Optimization” section of the Spring Seller Update, eBay advised Read more
Amazon opened a state of the art logistics center in Germany, calling it its first “Inbound Cross Dock” distribution center (IXD) in Europe (redistribution centers in Amazon logistics parlance). Items come to the facility in Dortmund directly from suppliers and Read more
Amazon is making it easier for foreign shoppers to buy items from its US website by launching the “International Shopping” experience on its Amazon Shopping App. International customers can shop the over 45 million eligible items that can be shipped Read more
Many holidays have become commercialized (PayPal just sent out a marketing email today touting “Mother’s Day gifts up to 60% off”), and now companies are making up their own holidays to encourage retail shopping. Alibaba found massive success in China Read more
eBay can seem schizophrenic in how it treats sellers. On the one hand, it puts a lot of hurdles in front of serious sellers (even those selling part-time). At the same time, it entices what it calls “consumer sellers” by Read more
