President Biden declared January 9, 2025, a day of mourning to honor former President Jimmy Carter who passed away on Sunday. Federal government offices will be closed. Sellers should be aware that given recent history, the USPS may suspend service Read more
Etsy sent an email to shoppers on December 27, 2024, telling them they were “a gigantic part of what makes this community so extraordinary!” and linking to a page of Etsy’s “faves of 2024.” It didn’t detail how it determined Read more
Weeks after Alibaba consolidated all of its domestic- and international-ecommerce business units to defend against the likes of Temu, it is partnering with Shinsegae Group in Korea, which owns E-Mart’s ecommerce platform Gmarket, formerly owned by eBay. The two companies Read more
Businesses, including many online sellers, must register with the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) soon or face significant fines due to the bipartisan Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) passed at the end of the last administration. (See update below.) Read more
Sellers are reeling after Amazon dropped a bombshell announcement on those who use FBA to store and fulfill their inventory. One reader told us, “Now FBA is going to make it worse when they lose things, which happens on the Read more
After a 4-year break from the corporate world, Scott Schenkel is back in the C-suite, this time as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at travel company Expedia. In 2019, eBay’s then CFO Scott Schenkel was forced to take the helm as Read more
People don’t stop shopping on December 25th, especially given the popularity of gift cards, and Etsy is prepared with a lineup of after-Christmas sales. First up, it’s running an “End-of-Season Deals” event December 26 – 31, 2024. Sellers must have Read more
Sellers are dealing with a glitch that Amazon confirmed over a week ago, and the repercussions are coming at the worst time of year both for their pocketbooks and for their year-end reporting. The problem as we described last Monday Read more
Amazon sellers ready to take a break for the holidays have the option to put their account in vacation mode, the marketplace reminded sellers on Tuesday. “If you plan to take time off over the holidays, we recommend that you Read more
There’s a spike in the number of sellers reporting that Etsy forced their shops into “vacation mode” (a euphemism for “suspended”). This is a chronic issue usually related to Etsy’s verification process, but some sellers said they received no reason Read more
