eBay is rolling out changes to Seller Central this week, it announced today. You’ll start to see these updates today and throughout the week, eBay advised sellers. The changes include a new “clean, modern” design to help sellers find information Read more
eBay spent time answering financial analysts’ questions about its first-quarter performance last week, and the head of eBay Marketplaces Jordan Sweetnam popped into the Seller Announcement board to update sellers. You can read the full post yourself – here are Read more
eBay was part of a consortium of investors that acquired a $263 million stake in Funko, and as part of its investment, eBay will become the preferred secondary marketplace for Funko collectibles. eBay and Funko will also partner on creating Read more
Amazon touted its job-creation efforts in Germany this week, saying it will have 36,000 employees in the country by year-end. There were some interesting stats in the company’s announcement, including the number of seasonal workers it employed during the most Read more
You may remember the USPS announced a 6.5% rate hike for First Class Mail rates effective July 10 – including the cost of a stamp rising to 60 cents. The other shoe dropped today (Friday) – the USPS filed with Read more
Ecommerce platform Shopify grew GMV (merchants’ sales) 16% in the first quarter, year-over year, and announced plans to acquire fulfillment service Deliverr, which ships over a million orders per month across the US with thousands of merchant customers, many of Read more
eBay will soon share the burden sellers bear when issuing partial refunds to customers, though not entirely. Beginning May 23, 2022, eBay will automatically issue FVF credits to sellers for partial refunds on a prorated basis. Previously, sellers could not Read more
Canada Post has reinstated its on-time delivery guarantee for international mail from the United States, according to the US Postal Service. The previously declared force majeure for all international letter-post, parcel-post and EMS items has ended, it said. We could Read more
The US Postal Service will make its new “USPS Connect” service available through online postage providers and marketplaces, it announced today. (NOTE: This is not accurate, please see clarification below.) A Postal spokesperson had told us in March that USPS Read more
eBay will award $10,000 grants to 50 small retailers in the US for business needs such as physical and digital store improvements, new equipment and inventory, technology, hiring and training to support their success. The initiative is part of eBay’s Read more
