If you’re having a paper-towel emergency, which online marketplace should you turn to? The topic came up last week and raises questions beyond the obvious ones like, who has a paper-towel emergency and under what circumstances? During his keynote address Read more
Amazon is testing a new program that will help it avoid inventory stockouts with the help of its third-party merchants. Its new In-Stock Head Start pilot program will make out-of-stock products from sellers who participate in the FBA fulfillment program Read more
eBay informed business sellers in Canada and Australia that it would be migrating them to the Seller Hub portal. That means they will no longer be able to access the old My eBay “selling” page to manage their selling activity. Read more
Bonanza will soon begin allowing all sellers to accept payments through Stripe, the company announced this week. Sellers can already offer payments on Bonanza through PayPal. This week’s news comes a year after the online marketplace integrated with Stripe, though Read more
Amazon.com sales were up 20% in the second quarter to $63.4 billion, the company announced on Thursday. Net sales (excluding AWS) were up 20% North America and 12% for its International segment. Excerpt of press release follows: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: Read more
eBay is launching a new feature to help customers make repeat purchases for frequently needed items such as dog food. eBay CEO Devin Wenig announced the new feature today during a keynote address at the eBay Open seller conference in Read more
eBay announced new seller tools at its eBay Open conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Multi-User Account Access and Terapeak Pricing Insights promises to “unlock seller productivity.” It also announced its fulfillment service, called Managed Delivery, would become available to Read more
eBay officially announced its fulfillment service will become available to US sellers next year after 10 years of floating the idea and surveying sellers on and off. In January, we reported eBay was inviting US sellers to participate in the Read more
Some eBay sellers were thrown for a loop by changes eBay made to GTC listings this month, as we reported in Monday’s blog post. eBay changed the renewal dates of fixed-price listings so that sellers wouldn’t be charged twice in Read more
The Federal government of the United States has opened an antitrust investigation into online platforms. While not naming names, the Justice Department cited concerns about services related to “search, social media, and some retail services online.” CNBC, among others, took Read more
