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Holiday 2022: Higher Ad Costs, Shifting Consumer Behavior
USPS Hits Holiday Shippers for 3rd Consecutive Year
Good News – Bad News: Deflation Hits Online Sales in July
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Author: Ina Steiner

Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

Holiday 2022: Higher Ad Costs, Shifting Consumer Behavior

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 Ina Steiner
Teikametrics

Advertising costs on online marketplaces always increase around the holiday shopping season as merchants vie for shoppers’ eyeballs. This year will be no exception, according to Alasdair McLean-Foreman, CEO and founder of Teikametrics, which optimizes […]

Leave a commentMarketplaces, NewsAd costs, Advertising trends, Alasdair McLean-Foreman, Teikametrics

USPS Hits Holiday Shippers for 3rd Consecutive Year

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 Ina Steiner
USPS

Online sellers will pay an extra 75 cents for each package shipped via flat-rate Priority Mail during the holidays, according to today’s announcement from the USPS. But sellers will pay as much as $6.50 extra […]

Leave a commentNews, ShippingUSPS, USPS holiday rate hike, USPS Rate Hike

Good News – Bad News: Deflation Hits Online Sales in July

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 Ina Steiner
Online shopping cart

Here’s a word you haven’t heard in a while: deflation. But the devil is in the details, and Adobe came supplied with plenty in its Adobe Digital Price Index for the month of July. Sellers […]

Leave a commentNews, Trends and Shopping DataAdobe Digital Price Index, Deflation, Patrick Brown, Pricing trends

Online Marketplace Bonanza Institutes New Transaction Fee

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 Ina Steiner
Bonanza marketplace

Bonanza is adding a new 25-cent transaction fee for all sales at the end of August. Sellers can continue to post items to Bonanza for free – the new transaction fee will be assessed on […]

2 CommentsMarketplaces, NewsBonanza, Bonanza fees, Inflation, Sarah Tranum

Amazon Runs New Promotion for Brand Owners

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon is running a new promotion for sellers who are registered with the Amazon Brand Registry – it’s giving them access to what it calls Premium A+ content at no charge, which can help boost […]

1 CommentMarketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon Premium A+ content, Amazon Promotion

eBay to Refund Sellers for Overbilling Issue Affecting Stores

August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 Ina Steiner
eBay

eBay sellers were flummoxed after they lost thousands of free listings in select categories on August 1st. Sellers were left wondering if eBay had decided to end the promotional perk for Stores without notice or […]

3 CommentsMarketplaces, NewseBay glitch, eBay overbilling, eBay Stores

Ecommerce Spending Up over 11 percent in July

August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 Ina Steiner

Online sales were up 11.7% in July year-over-year, a sharp increase after months of softer growth, according to a report from Mastercard SpendingPulse, which measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment. […]

6 CommentsNews, Trends and Shopping DataEcommerce spending, Economic news, Mastercard SpendingPulse, Michelle Meyer, Steve Sadove

Etsy to Promote Labor Day Sales on Mobile Only

August 6, 2022August 6, 2022 Ina Steiner
Etsy

Etsy invited sellers to mark down prices in order to get visibility in its annual Labor Day sales event, but this year, Etsy is marketing the event only to shoppers on the Etsy mobile app. […]

Leave a commentMarketplaces, NewsEtsy, Etsy Labor Day sale, Etsy sales event

Another Niche Marketplace that Hopes to Fill a Need

August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Ina Steiner
Sweetwater Gear Exchange

Musicians and audiophiles have a new marketplace to buy and sell gear. Sweetwater, which was founded in 1979 and sells music instruments and audio gear, and announced its new Gear Exchange on Thursday. And – […]

Leave a commentMarketplaces, NewsAudio gear, Gear Exchange, Music instruments, Niche marketplace, Sweetwater

Reactions to Etsy’s Latest Changes to Messaging System

August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Ina Steiner
Etsy

Three years ago, Etsy had changed its buyer-seller messaging system to be more like an instant-messaging system, and this summer, Etsy made another major change to the system. The company told sellers it was making […]

2 CommentsMarketplaces, NewsEtsy, Etsy glitch, Etsy Messages

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