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/.

A 1099-K Notification from PayPal Alerts Seller to Unanticipated Problem

September 21, 2022 Ina Steiner

In what seemed like a routine email titled, “View updates to your PayPal account,” PayPal informed an online seller he had passed the threshold for reporting payments to the IRS, notifying him that according to […]

Alert: eBay Announces Category and Item Specifics Changes

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 Ina Steiner

eBay made a surprise announcement on Tuesday: it had began making updates to several categories, and, as far as we can determine, with no prior warning. Sellers have come to dread the consolidating changes eBay […]

eBay Shipping Label System Crashed Tuesday Evening

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 Ina Steiner

eBay sellers were unable to print shipping labels on Tuesday evening. The Technical Issues board was inundated with reports of problems beginning around 3:30 pm. eBay displayed the following message when sellers tried to print […]

eBay Boasts New Lower USPS Rates While Warning of Higher UPS Rates

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Ina Steiner

eBay announced cheaper USPS Priority Mail rates for sellers who print shipping labels through its eBay Labels program. Beginning September 26, the new rates for select weights and zones will be “up to $1.02 lower […]

eBay’s Chief Technology Officer Discusses AI, Competition, and Uncertain Times

September 18, 2022September 18, 2022 Ina Steiner

eBay has 1.6 billion listings live on its marketplaces, the company’s Chief Technology Officer told the host of the Modern CTO podcast, Joel Beasley. Mazen Rawashdeh said that volume gives eBay massive data that helps […]

Do You Have Feedback for Etsy’s New Chief Product Officer?

September 18, 2022 Ina Steiner

Etsy shifted some top executives around over the summer, and its new Chief Product Officer Nick Daniel introduced himself to Etsy customers in a blog post on Wednesday. Nick Daniel took on the new chief […]

California AG Sues Amazon for Stifling Competition

September 17, 2022September 17, 2022 Ina Steiner

California’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in San Francisco against Amazon on September 14 alleging it stifled competition and caused increased prices through “anticompetitive contracting practices.” The timing of the filing coincided […]