The eBay Status Board was displaying problems with “Home Page” and with “Buying” on Friday afternoon, February 3, 2023. No details were provided on what is a barebones dashboard that replaced a more detailed Tech-Issues Status page years ago. A Read more
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy attended his first earnings call on Thursday after replacing founder Jeff Bezos as chief executive in the summer of 2021. Don’t get used to it, but Jassy said he would attend calls from time to time Read more
eBay announced today it is raising some fees for US sellers effective February 15, 2023. eBay “final value fees” combine a commission and payment-processing fees, and the company said the maximum increase in any one category would be 0.35%. Some Read more
eBay entered into a deal with Notable Live, “a digital platform that fosters exceptional fan experiences,” to bring merchandise and NFTs to the eBay marketplace (more on what Non-Fungible Tokens are here). According to this week’s announcement: “eBay and Notable Read more
Amazon officially welcomed sellers to its new Seller Forums on Monday and touted new features. One aspect Amazon didn’t highlight in the announcement was the fact the new boards display posters’ Amazon business names (many sellers use a handle rather Read more
PayPal will layoff 2,000 full time employees, which is about 7% of its total workforce, the company announced on Tuesday. It comes as other tech and ecommerce companies have laid off employees, including Amazon and Shopify. In PayPal’s case, CEO Read more
The USPS added new barcodes to shipping labels to increase their readability (see clarification below). The Postal Service explained that soft packs (think clothing) and irregularly-shaped parcels can end up with unreadable barcodes. The new “two-dimensional Intelligent Mail matrix barcodes” Read more
In September, Etsy announced a policy that restricted the return policies sellers could offer buyers. Ironically, the marketplace that emphasizes the unique and special nature of sellers’ products is requiring sellers to conform to one of Etsy’s standard return policies. Read more
The IRS has tweaked a question that all taxpayers must answer on their tax return in April for tax year 2022, and it’s especially important for online sellers (and collectors) to be prepared so they don’t get into trouble down Read more
eBay has decided to continue making available a report that sellers used to see why their listings were rejected by Google Shopping, which they used to improve visibility of their listings in Google. This week, sellers noticed a message in Read more
