The government’s bribery case against Amazon consultants was dramatic enough, with allegations of a suitcase full of cash, sabotaged Amazon pages, and other crimes involving 6 indicted defendants. But things got even more startling this weekend as the 4th and Read more
Amazon is allowing merchants who host an independent store on the Shopify platform, and who use Amazon fulfillment, to offer Buy with Prime. Enabling the feature allows the merchant’s buyers who have an Amazon Prime subscription to use the payment Read more
Online marketplace Bonanza launched a new Diamond membership tier for sellers and is celebrating its 15-year anniversary with a sale on its subscription programs for sellers. A company spokesperson told EcommerceBytes it also plans to launch a new webstore program Read more
Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Alibaba are holding virtual and in-person events this month, giving sellers a full slate of options from which to choose. Amazon will host sellers at its annual in-person Amazon Accelerate conference in Seattle, Washington on September Read more
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
