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Month: January 2026

Amazon Changes How It Charges FBA Removal and Disposal Fees

January 30, 2026January 30, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon is changing how it charges sellers for removing and disposing of products stored in its FBA fulfillment centers. The fees themselves are not changing. However, Amazon will charge FBA removal and disposal fees “on a per-unit basis at the Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon FBA, Amazon FBA Removal and Disposal feesLeave a comment

Facebook Founder Sees Agentic Shopping as an Ecommerce Opportunity

January 29, 2026January 29, 2026 Ina Steiner
Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, said this week he sees agentic shopping as an opportunity, but there was no indication Facebook will morph into an Amazon or eBay, and he only hinted as to what was to come. Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAgentic shopping, AI, Chad Heaton, Facebook, Manus, Mark Zuckerberg, MetaLeave a comment

Would You Trust Amazon with Your QuickBooks?

January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon is inviting sellers to use QuickBooks accounting in Seller Central, something it had promised to do last year. It’s a somewhat surprising move since sellers have long been suspicious of sharing information with Amazon over fears it will use Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, QuickBooks, Sasan GoodarziLeave a comment

How to Turn off eBay Live Notifications

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 Ina Steiner
eBay

Notifications on mobile phones can be helpful, but sometimes they can verge on the annoying or can cause technical issues. Case in point: today, someone asked on the eBay discussion boards, “How do I keep from these eBay Live events Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay, eBay Live, eBay push notificationsLeave a comment

Tariffs Changed How Buyers Shop, with Some Advice for Online Sellers

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 Ina Steiner
Online shopping cart

The number of Americans who support tariffs are up from last year, according to a new survey by Omnisend. That’s despite the fact that 56% of respondents said they believed consumers ultimately bore the cost of tariffs through higher prices. Read more

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Walmart Marketplace Opens Curated ‘Premium’ Musical Instruments Shop

January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 Ina Steiner

Walmart Marketplace has expanded into “premium” musical instruments – both new and used – as part of its focus on broadening selection, a strategy that has helped Amazon enormously and further pits the two companies against each other. However, Walmart Read more

Marketplaces, NewsMusic instruments, Walmart, Walmart marketplaceLeave a comment

Amazon Narrows SAFE-T Claims Window for Sellers to 30 Days

January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon is making an unpopular change to a program that already receives criticism for what some sellers feel is a failure to protect them. Amazon announced on Wednesday, January 21, it would give sellers less time to file SAFE-T claims: Read more

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USPS Warns of Disruptions Due to Weekend Storm

January 22, 2026January 22, 2026 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

USPS said it is suspending its service guarantee for all Priority Mail Express shipments citing major winter weather impacts across the country. The Priority Mail Express service guarantee will temporarily be suspended effective 00:01 EST Friday January 23, 2026, through Read more

News, ShippingFedex, Shipping delays, USPS, Weather event1 Comment

eBay Bans AI Shopping Agents, Updates Arbitration Provision

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 Ina Steiner
eBay

eBay has long tried to stop other companies from scraping its site, and in the fall, it quietly added “buy for me” AI agents to the list of prohibited crawlers in its robots.txt file. This week, eBay informed customers by Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAI shopping agents, Arbitration, eBay, eBay User AgreementLeave a comment

Amazon Executive Shares AI Hack: Get Price-Drop Alerts

January 20, 2026January 20, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

On Tuesday we published an article about eBay executives’ thoughts on AI and agentic shopping, including three of the ways they said AI would impact ecommerce. But Amazon executives also weighed in recently with their thoughts about AI and shared Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAI, Amazon, Amazon AI, Doug Herrington, Kelly MacLean, RufusLeave a comment

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