If you’re a seller who takes advantage of the eBay Standard Envelope shipping option for lightweight items that can be mailed in an envelope, be aware your costs will be rising later this month. eBay Standard Envelope uses the US Read more
Poshmark has over 80 million registered users across 90% of zip codes in the US, and its new owner is looking to consumer selling and “livestreaming commerce” for growth. We reported in October that Korean company Naver Corp. was acquiring Read more
A seller learned the hard way about a quirk involving eBay Standard Envelope, which offers proprietary tracking at a low cost for certain lightweight goods. A buyer selected eBay Standard Envelope on auction they’d won, but the seller couldn’t send Read more
Happy New Year, your costs are going up. One example of the many increases that are hitting small businesses: the Postal Service is raising fees for renting a PO box this month. The USPS sent a reminder to box holders Read more
UPS boasted it beat its rivals in on-time delivery over the 2022 holiday season, and it wants to recognize employees who provided great service. UPS said it led the industry in on-time performance in the US for the fifth straight Read more
Products from third-party sellers represent almost 60% of the units sold on Amazon, and of the nearly 2 million sellers that do business on the platform, most of them are small or medium-sized. In the US, sellers sold over 3.9 Read more
Returns are painful for online sellers, but one company sees them as an opportunity. Delivery service DoorDash announced Package Pickup that caters to shoppers who can’t or don’t want to make a trip to the Post Office or UPS/FedEx to Read more
eBay will offer advice to sellers on growing their sales in the New Year. An eBay specialist from the Growth Advisor team will answer questions from sellers in this month’s eBay live-chat session. The theme of January’s chat session is: Read more
A US seller is baffled as to why eBay is charging them an international fee for a package going to Georgia – the “Peach State,” not the country Georgia. In the description of selling fees for that transaction, eBay included Read more
Amazon introduced a new metric that rates one aspect of sellers’ product detail pages. The “Potential Sales Lift” metric identifies listings that are missing key attributes – but goes further by showing sellers how much their sales might improve if Read more
