Electronics retailer Best Buy is adding musical instruments, toys, and licensed sports collectibles to its online offerings by launching its new marketplace in the US on Tuesday. Offering items from third-party sellers will more than double the number of products Read more
eBay will shorten the claims window for items sold “as is” from 30 days to 3 days, and it will institute much stricter verification of auction bidders and buyers of high-value items. Those are just two of the new seller-protection Read more
eBay advised sellers that UPS and FedEx were making changes to rates and policies that were scheduled to take effect this week. However, eBay later updated its announcement to inform sellers that UPS had cancelled its plans to change certain Read more
Manish Chandra cofounded fashion resale marketplace Poshmark in 2011, took it public, and sold it to Naver in 2023. Chandra is now transitioning from his role as Poshmark CEO into a “strategic role” on the company’s Board of Directors. In Read more
Facebook parent Meta is giving brands more power to report the misuse of their brand on Facebook and Instagram. Brands will be able to more easily report violations, even when the ads or content do not violate the brands’ intellectual Read more
More than thirty years after bringing the Internet to regular people, AOL (aka, “America Online”) is discontinuing its dial-up service on September 30 – and it will likely hit people in rural areas the hardest. News media picked up the Read more
Auctiva upgraded its platform used by eBay sellers and announced it received fresh investment under new ownership. Attendees of this week’s eBay Open seller conference will be able to meet the team and review the new product upgrades and provide Read more
eBay added a “Boost” icon on listings that can be seen only by sellers. Some sellers feared clicking on the icon, not knowing what would happen, but those brave enough to click said they saw a popup box encouraging them Read more
USPS used to deliver millions of UPS SurePost packages for the private carrier until the end of last year, when UPS renamed the service UPS Ground Saver and “in-sourced” delivery to its own drivers. But a reunion may be in Read more
Amazon continues its project to reclassify products in the Amazon Handmade marketplace to “standard” product types, which it says will improve customer discoverability of Handmade products in the Amazon stores and is expected to be completed by the end of Read more
