Ecommerce Industry News
PayPal is updating its User Agreement effective July 9, 2019. The company highlighted several changes in three categories (buyers, sellers, and sellers with PayPal Website Payments Pro and Virtual Terminal Agreements). The change that looks […]
Amazon held its shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday in Seattle, and as Lydia DePillis pointed out in her preview report for CNN on Tuesday, there was a lot on the table, for a change. (“For the […]
eBay is getting another taste of what it’s like to run a retail shop, sort of! It opened its first “concept store” in the UK on May 10th, it announced today, and it’s set to […]
Royal Mail is making a change in delivery service to accommodate the demands of ecommerce, specifically what it refers to as the “night owl” shopping phenomenon. It comes as part of a strategic plan in […]
The US Postal Service is testing self-driving trucks this month. An autonomous truck will haul USPS trailers between Arizona and Texas in partnership with TuSimple, a global self-driving truck company (which, interestingly, uses Amazon’s AWS […]
Etsy is accepting applications for its 2019 Maker Cities program, which will provide grants up to $40,000 to five nonprofit organizations to invest in a year-long economic development project in support of entrepreneurial micro-businesses. Etsy […]
Sellers who use Amazon’s FBA fulfillment service can “increase sales and earn storage fee discounts of 50 to 75%,” the marketplace announced on Tuesday as it looks for more inventory to help it meet its […]
UPS has long sought higher postal rates for packages, but it faced a setback this week when the Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal in a case it brought against the Postal Regulatory Commission […]
Some sellers are reporting problems when sending inventory to Amazon FBA fulfillment centers due to shipping carriers’ practices, and they say Amazon customer service is failing to help them. In a nutshell, FedEx is placing […]
eBay and Etsy sent sellers to Washington, DC to lobby lawmakers on issues important to the marketplaces and their sellers, including postal issues, benefits, trade, net neutrality – and of course, online sales tax. Former […]