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Month: January 2022

Amazon Fulfillment Center Factoids for FBA Sellers

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Ina Steiner
Amazon

A new report is filled with factoids about Amazon fulfillment centers that FBA sellers may find fascinating. For example, the report says Amazon’s largest warehouse is located in Newport, Delaware and is 3.8 million square feet, which is approximately 67 Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon FC, Amazon fulfillment centers, BigRentz1 Comment

Holiday Consumer Spending Rose – but So Did Prices

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Ina Steiner
Holiday shopping

Holiday consumer spending was up 8.6% over the 2021 season compared to the same period in 2020 – however, online prices in December were 3.1% higher compared to December of 2020, according to Adobe researchers. Adobe is out with two Read more

News, Trends and Shopping DataAdobe, Holiday consumer spending, Holiday shopping 2021, Inflation

Amazon Extends SAFE-T Seller Appeals to CSBA Orders

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 Ina Steiner
Amazon

If you were going to hire a company to handle your customer service, you’d likely provide it with instructions on how to handle each kind of problem your customer might experience. But when the company you outsource your customer service Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon CSBA, Amazon Safe-T Claim

eBay Says It Didn’t Request the Facebook Groups Takedowns

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 Ina Steiner
eBay

eBay said the recent removal of seller groups on Facebook was not the result of any official eBay request, but the matter remains a mystery. On December 29, eBay published a post on its discussion boards stating it had become Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay, Facebook, Facebook groups, Facebook Groups takedowns2 Comments

Three More Amazon Sellers Plead Guilty to Price Fixing

January 7, 2022January 10, 2022 Ina Steiner
US Department of Justice

Every seller wants to learn how to get the highest prices for their online sales. But as we’ve warned previously, the government is watching to make sure sellers don’t engage in conduct with each other that it deems anti-competitive and Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon8 Comments

USPS Offers Self-Scanning at over 2,200 Post Offices

January 7, 2022January 7, 2022 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

The USPS offers self-scanning at over 2,200 Post Offices, EcommerceBytes has confirmed. For those online sellers dropping off pre-paid packages, it may help them save time standing in line and give them more confidence their packages were actually scanned in Read more

News, ShippingKim Frum, USPS, USPS Self-service Kiosks3 Comments

Are You Getting Your eBay Store Bills on Time?

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 Ina Steiner
eBay

eBay said it was unaware of any issues related to eBay Store billing when the topic arose during Wednesday’s weekly chat. A seller said they had seen reports popping up about issues where eBay billed people “weeks and even months Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay glitch, eBay Store bills, eBay Stores1 Comment

Beware Google Authentication Scam Targeting Online Sellers

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 Ina Steiner
Scam

The FBI described a devious Google authentication scam targeting online sellers. The FBI Oregon’s Tech Tuesday segment explained how the scheme works, which we’ve summarized below. (Hat tip to Pymnts.com.) You post your real phone number on an online platform Read more

News, Security and Fraud IssuesFBI, Fraud, Google authentication scam, Scams4 Comments

USPS Does Victory Lap over Holiday Shipping Performance

January 6, 2022January 12, 2023 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

The USPS did a victory lap today, announcing that it had accepted over 13.2 billion mailpieces and packages over the 2021 holiday shopping season and boasting of speedy delivery. The USPS performance this year was a far cry from last Read more

News, ShippingHoliday shipping 2021, Louis DeJoy, USPS5 Comments

A Physicist Helps Amazon Reduce Package Weight

January 5, 2022 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Reducing the packaging of an order can save in materials and in shipping costs, and at Amazon’s massive scale, saving even a penny or two per package adds up to big bucks. But it appears the retail giant is going Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon packaging, Deep learning, Machine learning, Matthew Bale

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