eBay launched a new consignment service for luxury handbags on Tuesday, after it shuttered a previous version called eBay Valet five years ago. eBay is working with a single seller called Linda’s Stuff (run by Linda Lightman) with whom eBay Read more
Amazon announced a new service for sellers – Supply Chain by Amazon (presumably to be referred to as SCA), that it said would help sellers keep products in stock; ship faster and more reliably; and significantly lower their costs. If Read more
The US Postal Service is making it easier to order packaging supplies online by allowing customers to purchase them through the USPS Click-N-Ship online-postage portal. The USPS offers free expedited packaging supplies that can be used to ship Priority Mail Read more
A sports reporter who uses Stripe to process payments for her paid newsletter on the Substack platform discovered her phone number and physical address was being published on invoices to her readers without her realizing it. A text from a Read more
Amazon is making a change to its FBA Removals Policy. For sellers who set their preferred removal option for unfillable inventory to “Dispose,” Amazon will schedule the removal order at its discretion based on capacity, starting November 1, 20203. Sellers Read more
Merchants who use Square to process payments online and in-person were out of luck on Thursday after an outage hit the service. Square communicated with sellers on Twitter, tweeting about 4 hours into the outage, “We are currently experiencing issues Read more
UPS will raise rates 6% in 2024 – or 5.9% on December 26, 2023, to be exact – publishing the news about 10 days after FedEx announced it would raise rates an average of 5.9% on January 1, 2024. UPS Read more
Amazon explained how it adjusts capacity for the peak shopping season, advising sellers who use its fulfillment services to get their inventory to its warehouses by October 26 in order to be ready for Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to Read more
eBay is letting employees use a “magical” new AI tool to automatically generate listings with only an image, and it will release it to the public in the coming months. eBay announced the new tool in a blog post on Read more
Sellers who drive traffic to their listings on Etsy that results in sales will qualify for a reduction in fees through a new program the company introduced on Wednesday. Etsy Share & Save is based on affiliate-marketing principles, but sellers Read more
