Ecommerce Industry News
Amazon will build two new robotics fulfillment centers in Ohio, it announced today. Each fulfillment center will be over 700,000 square feet and will be used to pick, pack and ship small items to customers […]
eBay notified sellers in the UK that it was adding 16 additional countries to its Global Shipping Program (GSP), bringing the total number of countries to over 100. When an item is sold through the […]
eBay filled the position of Chief Product Officer after a 1-year vacancy following the departure of RJ Pittman in July 2018. eBay also found a replacement for Chief Technology Officer Steve Fisher who abruptly stepped […]
Etsy is acquiring music-gear marketplace Reverb for $275 million in cash. In announcing the news, Reverb founder and CEO David Kalt said Reverb would remain a standalone business, but with the added support of Etsy. […]
One of the biggest problems with mobile and online classifieds is the flaky buyer who doesn’t show up after agreeing to make a purchase, as we hear year after year in the Sellers Choice ratings. […]
Amazon thinks a lot about product packaging and is celebrating the 11th anniversary of its “Frustration-Free Packaging” program. But it’s about more than making it easier for customers to open their items and avoid “wrap […]
An eBay moderator confirmed the company has been enrolling sellers into its “Cross Border Listing Program” that is powered by third-party vendor WebInterpret. It is an ongoing program that is presented to some sellers as […]
eBay is making sellers’ listings (what it calls “eBay’s global inventory”) available on Indian marketplace Paytm Mall, making items accessible to tens of millions of Paytm Mall active customers. As part of the agreement, eBay […]
Amazon informed sellers on Wednesday it is making changes to the Business Solutions Agreement. A summary of the changes is available for sellers to review here, and Amazon made available a “redlined” version of the […]
eBay CEO Devin Wenig said there was no material change resulting from Google algorithm updates in the May – June timeframe. He was responding to Wall Street analyst Mark May of Citi who asked about […]