Hal Lawton’s departure from eBay has led to some promotions internally, and this week eBay announced a change in leadership down under. Tim Mackinnon was promoted from Chief Marketing Officer to Managing Director of eBay Australia and New Zealand to Read more
AbeBooks is refunding a week’s worth of fees to sellers after a 2-day outage. The media marketplace owned by Amazon experienced a rare but serious outage over the weekend, and on Monday it sent an email to sellers with an Read more
Yahoo had built a respectable ecommerce platform called Yahoo Stores, but executives considered it expendable and nearly jettisoned the Yahoo Small Business unit after renaming it Luminate, then Aabaco. The Yahoo corporation found a different way to extract itself from Read more
eBay is encouraging its affiliates in the UK to use new creative that ties in with its Fill Your Cart with Color campaign that launched in the UK on August 26th. eBay Partner Network told UK publishers that its new Read more
Sellers impacted by Hurricane Harvey can reach out to Etsy if they need help, and it’s working with an organization to further help artists. Etsy is partnering with CERF+, a nonprofit focused exclusively on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide, to provide Read more
eBay said Thursday that its community helped raise over $600,000 to help support disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in the Texas and Louisiana region. eBay thanked sellers who are designating a portion of their sales to the Read more
eBay partnered with two celebrities as part of a back-to-school marketing campaign. Actress and model Olivia Culpo and professional basketball star Karl-Anthony Towns share their curated collections of “shoppable must-haves” at eBay.com/BackToCollege. Items include tech gear, dorm decor, and more. Read more
Pitney Bowes published its second annual Parcel Shipping Index, revealing 48% growth in parcel volume globally since 2014, with no sign of slowing down thanks to ecommerce. The report reveals that while China shipped 31 billion parcels in 2016 compared Read more
Etsy rolled out a new listing page design that abbreviates long descriptions in order to display reviews and policies more prominently (right below item descriptions). You can find sellers discussing the change on this thread on the Etsy discussion boards Read more
PayPal has launched a new credit card that gives 2% cash back on purchases. The Cash Rewards go into users’ PayPal balance and can be used however the account holder wishes. There is no annual cash back limit, no minimum Read more
