eBay refuses to acknowledge major technical issues that plague its site including an outage that lasted hours on Monday and a days-long problem impacting search results. In the early days of the site, eBay would post such issues on an Read more
Amazon.com will open yet another new fulfillment center, this one in Monee, Illinois. At the more than 850,000-square-foot facility, Amazon employees will pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and consumer goods. Last month, Amazon Read more
Online sellers in Canada are being negatively impacted by a labor dispute that keeps threatening to disrupt mail into, out of, and within the country, and it’s clear that online marketplaces have also been impacted. On Monday, eBay urged sellers Read more
eBay experienced a widespread outage on Monday – many buyers and sellers were unable to access eBay as technical issues continued to plague the site. Those who were able to access eBay reported problems with various functions – many sellers Read more
eBay will announce the Fall Seller Release today, which is a continuation of its efforts to make the eBay site more standardized and more like Amazon, including an expansion of its Structured Data requirements. In fact, beginning in February, sellers Read more
US Representative and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., is muddying the water with a completely new approach to the online sales tax issue. Last week, he released draft online sales tax legislation called the Online Sales Simplification Act Read more
Writing about the Canadian mail labor dispute feels a bit like “the boy who cried wolf” as the threat of a mail strike or lockout has loomed since July. But now it’s a reality, though the disruption that is set Read more
Amazon sellers are reeling from the news that in some cases, they must now pay $1,000 (and sometimes more) to get approval to sell branded items on the marketplace – that’s $1,000 per brand approval. Amazon confirmed it requires fees Read more
eBay search broke late last week and has been overwhelming shoppers with listings unrelated to the search terms. The earliest thread we saw about the problem was this onefrom Thursday night called, “eBay Search Engine is Freaking Out!”: “The search engine Read more
Texas is known for doing everything in a very big way, and it seems online shopping is no exception. Amazon announced it’s adding an eighth Fulfillment Center in the state to keep up with demand. Amazon announced on Thursday plans Read more
