Sellers say eBay is setting up buyers for disappointment with the changes to delivery estimates it displays to shoppers. Thanks to Wednesday’s announcement, some are also concerned about how the change could impact their seller performance standings thanks to eBay’s On-Time Shipping Read more
We’re excited to announce EcommerceBytes 411, a new publication launching in the first week of September 2016 that will cover ecommerce news and analysis for the independent seller. You can sign up now at a special introductory rate of $49/year. Read more
eBay is discontinuing its seller listing tools, it announced as part of the Fall Seller Update. Users will have to migrate to the new Seller Hub by next spring, when eBay will discontinue Turbo Lister, Selling Manager, and Selling Manager Pro. But Read more
eBay is forcing sellers to migrate to its new Seller Hub tool, announcing plans on Tuesday to discontinue its Turbo Lister, Selling Manager, and Selling Manager Pro listing tools by the spring of next year. Not surprisingly, some sellers are Read more
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
