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/.

Amazon Avoids Inventory Stockouts with New FBA Pilot Program

July 28, 2019July 28, 2019 Ina Steiner

Amazon is testing a new program that will help it avoid inventory stockouts with the help of its third-party merchants. Its new In-Stock Head Start pilot program will make out-of-stock products from sellers who participate in the FBA fulfillment program Read more

eBay Migrates Canadians and Australians to Seller Hub

July 28, 2019 Ina Steiner

eBay informed business sellers in Canada and Australia that it would be migrating them to the Seller Hub portal. That means they will no longer be able to access the old My eBay “selling” page to manage their selling activity. Read more

Bonanza Gives Sellers More Choice in Payments

July 26, 2019July 26, 2019 Ina Steiner

Bonanza will soon begin allowing all sellers to accept payments through Stripe, the company announced this week. Sellers can already offer payments on Bonanza through PayPal. This week’s news comes a year after the online marketplace integrated with Stripe, though Read more

Amazon Sales up 20% in Second Quarter of 2019

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 Ina Steiner

Amazon.com sales were up 20% in the second quarter to $63.4 billion, the company announced on Thursday. Net sales (excluding AWS) were up 20% North America and 12% for its International segment. Excerpt of press release follows: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: Read more

eBay Launches Buy Again Feature and Enhanced Search

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Ina Steiner

eBay is launching a new feature to help customers make repeat purchases for frequently needed items such as dog food. eBay CEO Devin Wenig announced the new feature today during a keynote address at the eBay Open seller conference in Read more

eBay Announces New Seller Tools on Wednesday

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Ina Steiner

eBay announced new seller tools at its eBay Open conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Multi-User Account Access and Terapeak Pricing Insights promises to “unlock seller productivity.” It also announced its fulfillment service, called Managed Delivery, would become available to Read more

eBay Announces US Fulfillment Service Will Launch in 2020

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Ina Steiner

eBay officially announced its fulfillment service will become available to US sellers next year after 10 years of floating the idea and surveying sellers on and off. In January, we reported eBay was inviting US sellers to participate in the Read more

eBay GTC Changes Throws Some Sellers for a Loop

July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 Ina Steiner

Some eBay sellers were thrown for a loop by changes eBay made to GTC listings this month, as we reported in Monday’s blog post. eBay changed the renewal dates of fixed-price listings so that sellers wouldn’t be charged twice in Read more

Feds Open Antitrust Investigation into Major Online Platforms

July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 Ina Steiner

The Federal government of the United States has opened an antitrust investigation into online platforms. While not naming names, the Justice Department cited concerns about services related to “search, social media, and some retail services online.” CNBC, among others, took Read more

UPS Is Moving to 7-Day Delivery with the Help of USPS

July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 Ina Steiner

UPS announced a number of initiatives on Monday including a move to 7-day pickup and delivery. The shipping carrier appears to be reacting in part to rival FedEx which in May announced it was moving to 7-day Ground residential delivery Read more