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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/.

Would You Trust Amazon with Your QuickBooks?

January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon is inviting sellers to use QuickBooks accounting in Seller Central, something it had promised to do last year. It’s a somewhat surprising move since sellers have long been suspicious of sharing information with Amazon over fears it will use Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, QuickBooks, Sasan Goodarzi

How to Turn off eBay Live Notifications

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 Ina Steiner
eBay

Notifications on mobile phones can be helpful, but sometimes they can verge on the annoying or can cause technical issues. Case in point: today, someone asked on the eBay discussion boards, “How do I keep from these eBay Live events Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay, eBay Live, eBay push notifications

Tariffs Changed How Buyers Shop, with Some Advice for Online Sellers

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 Ina Steiner
Online shopping cart

The number of Americans who support tariffs are up from last year, according to a new survey by Omnisend. That’s despite the fact that 56% of respondents said they believed consumers ultimately bore the cost of tariffs through higher prices. Read more

Marketplaces, NewsOmnisend, Tariffs

Walmart Marketplace Opens Curated ‘Premium’ Musical Instruments Shop

January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 Ina Steiner

Walmart Marketplace has expanded into “premium” musical instruments – both new and used – as part of its focus on broadening selection, a strategy that has helped Amazon enormously and further pits the two companies against each other. However, Walmart Read more

Marketplaces, NewsMusic instruments, Walmart, Walmart marketplace

Amazon Narrows SAFE-T Claims Window for Sellers to 30 Days

January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon is making an unpopular change to a program that already receives criticism for what some sellers feel is a failure to protect them. Amazon announced on Wednesday, January 21, it would give sellers less time to file SAFE-T claims: Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon Safe-T Claim

USPS Warns of Disruptions Due to Weekend Storm

January 22, 2026January 22, 2026 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

USPS said it is suspending its service guarantee for all Priority Mail Express shipments citing major winter weather impacts across the country. The Priority Mail Express service guarantee will temporarily be suspended effective 00:01 EST Friday January 23, 2026, through Read more

News, ShippingFedex, Shipping delays, USPS, Weather event1 Comment

eBay Bans AI Shopping Agents, Updates Arbitration Provision

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 Ina Steiner
eBay

eBay has long tried to stop other companies from scraping its site, and in the fall, it quietly added “buy for me” AI agents to the list of prohibited crawlers in its robots.txt file. This week, eBay informed customers by Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAI shopping agents, Arbitration, eBay, eBay User Agreement

Amazon Executive Shares AI Hack: Get Price-Drop Alerts

January 20, 2026January 20, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

On Tuesday we published an article about eBay executives’ thoughts on AI and agentic shopping, including three of the ways they said AI would impact ecommerce. But Amazon executives also weighed in recently with their thoughts about AI and shared Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAI, Amazon, Amazon AI, Doug Herrington, Kelly MacLean, Rufus

USPS Loosens Amazon’s Grip on Its Last-Mile Delivery

January 20, 2026January 20, 2026 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

USPS has been negotiating with a very small number of large businesses – including Amazon – to deliver their packages to the 170 million addresses the USPS serves. But what if the USPS could negotiate with many businesses of all Read more

News, ShippingAmazon, Last mile delivery, Shipping, USPS2 Comments

eBay Identifies 3 Ways AI Will Impact Ecommerce

January 18, 2026January 18, 2026 Ina Steiner
eBay

eBay executives shared their thoughts about AI and agentic shopping in a post on the eBay corporate blog on January 16th. The post comes amid a busy month of AI-related announcements from tech and ecommerce players, including Google, Microsoft, Etsy, Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAvritti Khandurie Mittal, eBay, eBay AI, Renée Morin, Senthil Padmanabhan1 Comment

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