The FDA is cracking down on those who sell vaping-related products to minors, including online sellers. It began enforcing new federal regulations that make it illegal nationwide to sell e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco, and other newly regulated tobacco products to Read more
Etsy has added features to Pattern, which is a service that lets sellers set up a very basic website using the existing content, listings and tools from their Etsy shop. The new features are designed to help sellers with branding. Read more
It may come as a surprise to learn that postal services from around the world are openly wondering if Amazon is friend or foe. It’s normal for online merchants to have mixed feelings about Amazon – it can be a Read more
eBay is running a promotion to encourage sellers to list more auction listings, however, the promotion is by invitation only. Sellers can list up to 500 auction listings and pay no insertion fee. Invited sellers must first activate the offer, Read more
A series of announcements by online payment providers show the opportunity smaller merchants represent. Amazon, Apple, and PayPal all announced integrations with ecommerce platforms that provide store-hosting solutions for small and medium sized businesses. Ecommerce platforms and shopping carts are Read more
The same day Bloomberg revealed eBay was on the hunt for companies that make spell-correcting algorithms to improve search, Etsy revealed it had acquired one such company. Blackbird Technologies is a Silicon Valley-based company that uses advanced machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence Read more
eBay is holding a sale on selling fees in the UK. Sellers can list up to 100 listings and pay no insertion fees; and if any of those items sell, sellers pay a maximum of 1 pound in commission fees Read more
Online sellers are buzzing about a phenomenon called Facebook Pearl Parties, wondering if they can borrow the concept to market their own products and online stores. One seller wrote on the Etsy boards, “Recently there has been a ton of these Read more
Marketing expert Scott Smigler of Exclusive Concepts believes Amazon rivals may initially get a small boost thanks to the crackdown on Amazon 3P merchants, but he doesn’t believe it will have a net positive effect on sites like eBay. Smigler Read more
Even if Amazon’s crackdown on third-party merchants means some will flee to other marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon could still benefit from those off-market sales, according to Sam St Leger of Feedvisor, who had been a member of Amazon’s Seller Services Read more
