eBay is displaying how long it takes a seller to respond to customer inquiries on their listing pages – and as we reported last week, it took a reader by surprise and appeared to be a test eBay was running. Read more
Walmart hosted merchants in Last Vegas on Wednesday at its first-ever Let’s Grow! Marketplace Seller Summit where it announced several new tools and services to help them grow on its marketplace. Like Amazon, Walmart offers fulfillment services (called WFS), and Read more
FedEx will raise rates 6% in 2024 – or 5.9% to be exact – for FedEx and FedEx Ground, it announced on Tuesday. The rates go into effect on January 1, 2024, so sellers could be hit by higher costs Read more
Yahoo Mail is taking a different approach to promotional emails than Google’s Gmail, which in 2013 decided to relegate them to a new “Promotions” tab (happy 10-year anniversary of hidden marketing emails). This week, Yahoo said it would actually give Read more
Amazon updated its policy for sellers in certain categories. On Monday, the marketplace announced it was updating its image policy for adult DVDs, books, magazines, and calendars. Amazon didn’t get into details about what exactly was changing in Monday’s announcement, Read more
A federal jury found Devin Ryan Maresca (33, Newcastle, PA) guilty of 10 counts of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on Thursday, according to prosecutors. A November 2022 indictment alleged that between approximately May 2018 through Read more
Sometimes it feels like we’re all just one click away from being defrauded, and as we reported on June 27th, campaigns are targeting Etsy sellers with some very convincing messages. Knowing how scams work can help protect online sellers from Read more
In mid-July, Amazon informed sellers about the new USPS Ground Advantage offering but told them it wasn’t yet prepared to offer it through its “Buy Shipping” program, which lets sellers purchase shipping labels on Seller Central. On August 24, Amazon Read more
Etsy is instituting an “Imagery of Minors” policy next month that will impact sellers who feature children in their product photos. The company said it was making the changes to strengthen its commitment to child safety. “Effective September 8, 2023, Read more
eBay is prohibiting the sale of single use plastic in Australia next month. It referred to the Australia National Retail Association, which made clear the likely impetus behind eBay’s new policy, noting on its website that the governments of multiple Read more
