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Month: January 2026

Amazon Limits Reviews for Product Variations

January 7, 2026January 7, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon currently displays reviews left for products across all of their variations, even when the variations have significant differences in features or specifications. Beginning February 12th, it will no longer do that, in order to “improve accuracy and help customers Read more

Marketplaces, News

Consumers Set New Ecommerce Spending Record for 2025 Holiday Season

January 7, 2026January 7, 2026 Ina Steiner

Adobe said consumers spent a record $257.8 billion online during the holiday season ( from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 2025), up 6.8% year-over-year (YoY) and setting a new record for ecommerce. It based its data on transactions covering over Read more

News, Trends and Shopping DataAdobe, Holiday shopping 2025

Amazon Scrapes Listings, Places Orders on Indie Seller Stores

January 6, 2026January 6, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Sellers who don’t sell on Amazon were shocked to see their store listings appear in its shopping app under Shop Direct and Buy for Me features. They learned that Amazon had scraped their web stores, displayed their listings in the Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon AI, Amazon Buy for Me, Amazon Project Starfish, Amazon Shop Direct2 Comments

Fed Transition to Electronic Disbursements Impacts Potential Tariff Refunds

January 4, 2026January 4, 2026 Ina Steiner
US Customs and Border Protection

It’s hard enough for online sellers to keep track of marketplace rules, taxes, and regulations, but 2025 brought a new area of concern: tariffs. The Supreme Court is expected to rule early in 2026 on whether the IEEPA tariffs the Read more

News, Tax and Legal IssuesDepartment of Homeland Security, IEEPA tariffs, Tariffs

Holiday Returns: Is Letting a Buyer Keep an Item Ever a Viable Option?

January 4, 2026January 4, 2026 Ina Steiner
Shipping and logistics

Returns are costly, so costly in fact, that Walmart suggests in some cases sellers might wish to let buyers keep an unwanted item instead of requiring them to return it. In describing the various returns services it offers to marketplace Read more

Marketplaces, NewsReturns, Walmart, Walmart returns

eBay Introduces ‘Credit Note’ Tax Documents for Sellers

January 2, 2026January 2, 2026 Ina Steiner
eBay

eBay is introducing “credit note” tax documents, it announced on the last day of 2025. The goal of credit notes is “to make billing clearer, more transparent, and easier for sellers to manage,” it said in its New Year’s Eve Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay, eBay credit note, eBay tax documents1 Comment

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