WhatsApp is not an online shopping platform, but the messaging app is adding a “cart” feature to facilitate communications between buyers and merchants. The company says people are using its app to discuss products and coordinate sales – a “store Read more
eBay is capping commission fees for UK “business” sellers in a special promotion that kicked off today. The a £2 cap on Final Value Fees will apply to new listings created between December 7 – 13th, and apply to the Read more
Ecommerce platform BigCommerce said it saw merchant sales grow 74% globally during the 5-day shopping period spanning Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday (November 30) compared to the same period last year. BigCommerce shared the following Cyber-Week data: Sunday (November 29, 2020) Read more
eBay is running an initiative to encourage people to sell on its UK site and donate a portion (or all) of the proceeds to charity. eBay will give £5 for every £1 customers donate when selling on the platform, up Read more
Amazon said independent businesses on its platform experienced 60% growth year-over-year over the Black Friday-Cyber Monday (BFCM) weekend, surpassing $4.8 billion in worldwide sales. Nearly all of them were small and medium-sized businesses, Amazon said. It shared the data in Read more
eBay said it broke all sales records for the Cyber 5 weekend spanning the 5-day period that included Thanksgiving Day (November 26, 2020), Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. eBay executive Jordan Sweetnam said in a post this week that success Read more
Walmart told marketplace sellers they can now initiate disputes for returns directly from the Payments dashboard in Seller Center instead of relying on the Seller Help dispute process. And, “Instead of having to manually enter all information, everything you need Read more
Mercari is giving away Christmas trees in three cities this month to promote its local selling service called Mercari Now, which it refers to as “Local selling without the meetup.” “This holiday season, we want to make the little things Read more
eBay has not been taking into account weekend days when calculating estimated delivery dates in sellers’ listings, it said in a post on Thursday. It will be changing that shortcoming – sellers will now have the option of adding weekend Read more
Bonanza is kicking off a sitewide sale on December 3rd, and it invited all sellers to participate by creating a coupon with the code, BonanzaHolidays2020. Although the coupon code will share the same name as other sellers, the discount an Read more
