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/.

eBay Updates Mobile Shopping App to Boost Holiday Shopping

November 15, 2016July 18, 2017 Ina Steiner

eBay published the following post on its corporate blog on Monday, announcing it has updated its mobile shopping app: With the holidays quickly approaching, many of us are on the go and taking advantage of our mobile devices to search, Read more

USPS Unveils Holiday Ad, Expects to Deliver 750 Million Packages

November 15, 2016July 19, 2017 Ina Steiner

The U.S. Postal Service today announced it was ready to deliver a lot of cheer – in the form of roughly 16 billion cards, letters and packages – this holiday season. The Postal Service, the largest ecommerce deliverer, is projecting Read more

Alibaba Generates Billions in GMV in First Hours of Singles Day

November 14, 2016July 18, 2017 Ina Steiner

Alibaba Group Holding Limited announced that more than USD 7 billion (RMB 47.5 billion) of gross merchandise volume (GMV) was settled through Alipay on Alibaba’s China and international retail marketplaces within the first two hours of the 2016 11.11 Global Read more

Newegg Deal with FedEx Helps Fight Package-Theft

November 14, 2016July 18, 2017 Ina Steiner

Newegg, the leading tech-focused e-retailer in North America, announced a new shopping cart integration with FedEx that will allow customers to order and hold packages for pickup at more than 2,500 FedEx locations throughout the United States, including 1,800 FedEx Read more

Sellers Participate in Amazon UK Black Friday Sale

November 14, 2016July 18, 2017 Ina Steiner

Amazon is celebrating Black Friday in the UK and invited over a thousand third-party sellers to participate – and they’ll offer double the number of deals compared to last year, Amazon UK announced: Amazon.co.uk is gearing up for its biggest Read more

eBay Modifies Shopping Cart to Support International Listings

November 14, 2016July 19, 2017 Ina Steiner

eBay Canada Chief Operating Officer Russ Patterson published the following post on the eBay Canada Announcement Board on Friday: As of today, the eBay.com shopping cart has been modified to support listings created on other eBay sites. Until now, eBay.com Read more

Apple Users Can Send PayPal Payments with Siri

November 11, 2016July 18, 2017 Ina Steiner

PayPal Senior Director of Core Consumer Products Meron Colbeci published the following post on the PayPal blog on Thursday: Sending and receiving money from friends and family has long been one of the most popular activities on PayPal. In fact, Read more

eBay Adds BigCommerce Integration

November 11, 2016July 18, 2017 Ina Steiner

eBay and BigCommerce announced the availability of a new integration that enables merchants to seamlessly list and sell products on the eBay marketplace, while also having the ability to manage inventory and orders natively through BigCommerce. Through the integration, BigCommerce Read more

eBay Weighs In on Canadian Postal Reform

November 10, 2016July 18, 2017 Ina Steiner

eBay published the following post on the eBay Main Street announcement board: Andrea Stairs, Managing Director of eBay Canada, testified before the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations during a budget consultation hearing on October 31. At Read more

eBay Warns Sellers It Will Suspend Tax Evaders

November 10, 2016July 18, 2017 Ina Steiner

In a new post titled “VAT compliance for overseas sellers,” eBay UK vowed to suspend those the government’s tax agency reports as evading VAT tax: Earlier this year, the UK government announced new measures to tackle the non-payment of VAT Read more