Online sellers are still trying to cope with the fallout from a serious PayPal glitch that occurred on Wednesday, but eBay vowed to protect sellers from any negative consequences. eBay and Etsy sellers were among those impacted. As eBay explained, Read more
Rakuten has acquired Fablic, which operates Japanese marketplace app FRIL. Rakuten calls it a flea market app, but based on a recent profile of the company, it sounds like a Poshmark-Etsy mashup. TechInAsia.com described FRIL as a consumer-to-consumer marketplace for used Read more
eBay CEO Devin Wenig will participate in an interview on Thursday where he will also take questions from users via Facebook. Wenig will take part in a #LeadershipLive conversation on Thursday, September 8th at 2pm ET. “Hosted by Facebook VP Read more
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson had some interesting things to say to Wall Street analysts on Wednesday, including talking about a competitive advantage that gets shoppers hooked on the marketplace. Dickerson called weddings a “gateway drug” to Etsy – brides and Read more
Online sellers generally don’t think of Pitney Bowes as a tool for printing USPS shipping labels for their ecommerce packages – unless they are large enterprises – but this year, that’s starting to change. The company expanded its coverage beyond Read more
After beating merchants into submission in requiring product photos to have white backgrounds only, Google is now offering up a new kind of ad that is more Pinterest-style than catalog. The company explained the new ad format, writing, “This week Read more
PayPal expanded its partnership with Mastercard following a similar deal with Visaannounced in July. One of the changes to come out of the new deal: consumers and small businesses will be able to instantly cash out funds held in their PayPal Read more
Congress let the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) know that it’s keeping an eye on the issue of “Fair Competition in International Shipping.” The Subcommittee on Government Operations sent a letter to the PRC chairperson last week requesting that it take Read more
All sellers who are registered as businesses on eBay UK can now list using the Good Til Cancelled format. Previously eBay UK limited the feature to Store owners (called Shops in the UK). eBay offers sellers the choice of different Read more
UPS is testing a new service that could prove popular with smaller online sellers who tend to favor USPS. According to EcommerceBytes 411, the UPS Simple Rate service offers flat-rate pricing, but is only available to a small number of Read more
