eBay and Etsy are making changes to some of their legal agreements. eBay updated its API License Agreement for third-party developers, including adding restrictions to the use of AI content. And Etsy is updating its Payments, Privacy and Cookies policies, Read more
Amazon’s agentic AI-powered Seller Assistant tool that it introduced last year can now reason, plan, and help sellers take action, the company planned to announce today at its Accelerate seller conference. The company made bold claims about how Seller Assistant Read more
Amazon announced the date of its 4th annual Prime Big Deal Days, boasting it would include “millions of early deals exclusively for Prime members” in Monday’s announcement. It’s Amazon’s first sale exclusively for Prime members since restricting how shoppers could Read more
eBay is promoting its Express Payouts with a promotion giving a 50% discount to sellers who sign up – but only for their first 5 express payouts (a feature that gives sellers access to their funds within 30 minutes). When Read more
As if there had been any doubt, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved the USPS’s holiday season rate hike requested last month. But in its filing on Thursday, the PRC noted that the Public Representative* called the temporary increase a Read more
Amazon uses Machine Learning technology to advise sellers which of the products they sell would be a good fit for its fulfillment service through a feature called Amazon FBA Enrollment Opportunities. On Tuesday, it announced it had integrated FBA Enrollment Read more
USPS is offering free shipping boxes for sellers using Ground Advantage – but only to sellers using them to fulfill orders on Poshmark. For decades, many small online sellers relied on free Priority Mail shipping supplies from the USPS. But Read more
eBay lost General Manager of Collectibles Mayank Hajela to Walmart last year as the latter company expands its collectibles category. On Thursday, Walmart live-streamed its first episode of “Collector’s Night,” its new Thursday-night series on Walmart Live. Live commerce platform Read more
When Amazon wrote about its shopping app’s image-search feature last year, it demonstrated how Amazon Lens could help you find an item you see in real life “such as your friend’s magnetized fridge calendar that’s perfect for organizing you or Read more
Etsy announced the departure of Chief Product Officer Nick Daniel on September 5, 2025. Rather than replace him, the company will expand the role of its current CTO Rafe Colburn, who will “expand his remit to Chief Product and Technology Read more
