Ecommerce Industry News
Amazon advised sellers to use seals on products in its Consumables product group, but sellers said the real problem stems from warehouse workers. In a recent post, Amazon said that an analysis of complaints found […]
Current eBay board member Bob Swan has joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a Growth Operating Partner. Swan served as Chief Financial Officer of eBay for nine years. Swan left eBay after the company […]
eBay said a new generation of “pandemic startups” emerged in the last year as it experienced a 237% increase in small shops setting up on its UK marketplace, attempting to reach its 29 million shoppers […]
Amazon notified sellers of a “new feature” called 1-Day Default Handling time: “Now, with 1-click you can set your Default Handling time to 1 day! Customers will see shorter delivery promises and will be more […]
PayPal is ending its Funds Now program, launched in 2018, which allowed sellers to access money from their completed sales within seconds, even during a dispute – at no extra cost to them. In a […]
The government said an Amazon seller entered into and engaged in a conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by fixing prices of DVDs and Blu-Ray Disks sold through Amazon. A Tennessee seller who was the […]
Amazon, eBay, and UPS were among the websites impacted by technical issues plaguing the Internet this afternoon. Down Detector added a red warning banner to the top of its site reading, “Reports indicate there may […]
Mercari is doubling down on its strategy to connect buyers and sellers locally. The selling platform partnered with Uber to expand “no meetup” local trading. Mercari Now, which rolled out in markets including San Francisco, […]
eBay filed a patent for lip-reading technology. According to the abstract, it envisions a computing device that can “read the lips” of a user to enter data (and to determine when to switch from one […]
As expected, postal rates are increasing in August. The Postal Regulatory Commission approved the changes today (July 19). The proposed price changes would raise overall Market Dominant product and service prices by an average of […]