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/.

Sellers Choice 2018 Marketplace Ratings: eCrater

February 10, 2018February 10, 2018 Ina Steiner

eCrater came in 6th place in the 2018 Sellers Choice Awards for Online Marketplaces. The free marketplace also offers store-hosting so small merchants can promote their own shop. Those who report doing well on eCrater say they had to work Read more

Sellers Choice 2018 Marketplace Ratings: Craigslist

February 10, 2018February 10, 2018 Ina Steiner

Craigslist came in 7th place in the 2018 Sellers Choice Awards for Online Marketplaces. The online classifieds site has long been considered a free means of selling hard-to-ship inventory or for advertising a storefront, even though it instituted dealer fees Read more

Sellers Choice 2018 Marketplace Ratings: eBid

February 10, 2018February 10, 2018 Ina Steiner

Overall, eBid earned better grades from sellers than they did last year and nudged up one slot to 8th place in the 2018 Sellers Choice Awards for Online Marketplaces, even though the UK-based company lacks the robust sales of larger Read more

Sellers Choice 2018 Marketplace Ratings: Facebook

February 10, 2018February 10, 2018 Ina Steiner

Facebook came in 9th place in the 2018 Sellers Choice Awards. There are numerous ways to sell on this marketplace, though the focus remains on local selling (or advertising) for now. In January 2018, EcommerceBytes surveyed over 10,000 online sellers Read more

Sellers Choice 2018 Marketplace Ratings: Walmart

February 10, 2018February 10, 2018 Ina Steiner

Walmart came in 10th place in the 2018 Sellers Choice Awards. This is the first year Walmart cracked the top-ten nominated marketplaces after it opened its platform to third-party sellers in 2009 on a very limited basis (3 merchants were Read more

eBay Opens Doors to Latin American Shoppers

February 9, 2018February 9, 2018 Ina Steiner

eBay has partnered with PideloRapido to give Latin American shoppers access to tens of millions of eBay.com listings. Shoppers who use the service from PideloRapido won’t need a US shipping address or PayPal account thanks to an integration with eBay’s Read more

eBay Wants Real Stores to Drive Customers to Their eBay Stores

February 8, 2018 Ina Steiner

eBay launched a new program for sellers who also operate brick-and-mortar retail stores. Always Open on eBay provides participating retailers co-branded marketing collateral for their physical space that promotes their eBay store. “Always Open is intended to drive additional retail Read more

PayPal Advises Etsy Sellers on Dupe 1099K Tax Forms

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018 Ina Steiner

PayPal provided us with some clarification on the duplicate 1099Ks some Etsy sellers received this month. PayPal and other payment providers are required to send Form 1099K to sellers and to the IRS showing the amount they processed on the Read more

PayPal Launches New Card Readers for In-Person Purchases

February 7, 2018 Ina Steiner

PayPal launched its PayPal Here card reader in 2012, allowing sellers to accept in-person payments by connecting the swiper to their smartphones. Today it launched new two new card readers with up-to-date technology: the Swipe reader and the Chip and Read more

Tax Season for Sellers Is Complicated by New Wrinkles

February 7, 2018February 8, 2018 Ina Steiner

Online sellers are being swept up in new confusion this year over Form 1099K as they prepare to file their income tax with the IRS and their state departments of revenue. New laws targeting income tax evaders are impacting small Read more