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/.

ShipWorks for Warehouse for When Shipping Gets Complicated

July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 Ina Steiner

ShipWorks launched ShipWorks for Warehouse, a new service that helps high-volume merchants get products to customers efficiently. The offering helps shippers with one warehouse or many, who use one shipping carrier or multiple, and is designed to help sellers scale Read more

Mercari Introduces Instant Payments for Sellers

July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 Ina Steiner

Mobile shopping app Mercari launched instant payments for sellers – but note that there’s a price for getting fast access to your cash – $2, to be exact. It’s also limited to $500/month. Sellers who want to use Mercari Instant Read more

eBay Picks 8 Finalists for Small Business of the Year

July 16, 2019 Ina Steiner

eBay selected eight finalists for the 2019 Small Business of the Year Award, and final voting is now open for the annual Shine Awards for Small Business. The awards ceremony will take place on July 25 at the eBay Open Read more

ShippingEasy Schools Sellers on Email Marketing

July 16, 2019July 17, 2019 Ina Steiner

ShippingEasy launched a class for online sellers on how to generate traffic using email marketing. The one-week course is free for sellers of all sizes. Press release follows: ShippingEasy, the leading provider of cloud-based shipping, inventory management, and customer marketing Read more

PayPal Expands Xoom Remittance Service in Europe

July 15, 2019 Ina Steiner

PayPal expanded its international money transfer service Xoom to 32 markets across Europe, it announced on Monday. Note that Xoom is not for ecommerce, in fact, using Xoom for commercial purposes is prohibited. (See the Protect Your Money section of Read more

Here Are eBay’s Crash Sale Deals for Prime Day

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Ina Steiner

eBay officially kicked off its Crash Sale deals today, July 15, to compete with Amazon Prime Day. The campaign lacks traditional eBay fare – you won’t find collectibles or used goods. While it makes sense for eBay to serve up Read more

Seller Offers eBay a Prime Day Marketing Tip

July 14, 2019 Ina Steiner

Online sellers want to capitalize on Amazon Prime Day, on or off of Amazon, and one seller made an interesting suggestion to eBay on how it could help. eBay itself has been running a campaign to grab traffic by positioning Read more

Sellers Aim for a Piece of Prime Day Pie

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 Ina Steiner

Amazon has been working to whip bargain-hunters into a frenzy with promises of “epic” deals on Prime Day (July 15-16), and third-party sellers can benefit. During last year’s Prime Day, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) generated sales of $1.5 billion Read more

From the Editor – July 14, 2019

July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 Ina Steiner

This week sees some major milestones in ecommerce. Monday marks the 4-year anniversary of the eBay-PayPal breakup, and the 1-year anniversary of eBay launching its own Managed Payments offering. Tuesday marks the 1-year anniversary of Etsy’s fee hike when it Read more

Survey: Why Sellers Are Concerned over “Free” Shipping Push

July 13, 2019July 14, 2019 Ina Steiner

Online marketplaces continue to pressure sellers to offer free shipping, with Etsy the latest to launch a new initiative. We surveyed sellers about major changes coming to the Etsy marketplace, and eBay sellers should pay close attention – they could Read more