Etsy’s reputation is taking a bruising due to a payments processing technical disaster that is being blamed on its third-party partner Worldpay. Etsy sellers are concerned that their reputations are also being harmed as customers have experienced myriad problems that Read more
eBay sellers say they are unable to respond to feedback left by their buyers. A report on Ecommerce EKG prompted us to investigate, and we discovered this problem has been ongoing since at least December. On Wednesday, a seller reported, Read more
eBay grew Marketplaces GMV 5% on an FX-neutral basis to $19.8 billion in the second quarter of 2016 (April, May, and June), while Marketplaces revenue grew 3%. Adding in StubHub ($1.1 billion in GMV), eBay’s total GMV for the quarter Read more
eBay is hosting a conference for sellers in Las Vegas on July 26-29 called eBay OPEN, and it has added an event for sellers in the UK to be held on August 10th. eBay Connect is taking place in Manchester and is Read more
If eBay was a superhero, its special power would be identifying shopping trends, it seemed to indicate in a post on its corporate blog on Tuesday. eBay bragged it can see what people are looking for and what they’re buying, Read more
Last year, Amazon told Congress that Chinese sellers can ship low-weight orders to American buyers at significantly cheaper rates than are available to domestic sellers. It cited an example: the cost to ship a one-pound package from South Carolina to New York Read more
eBay sellers who have been experiencing glitches over the past several days are concerned they could be having a negative impact on sales. One major issue that continued into Monday involves what appears to be an intermittent failure to display Read more
Etsy reassured sellers on Monday after sellers noticed on Friday that the marketplace was displaying their personal names on customer email receipts instead of their business names. Many sellers are vigilant about protecting personal information online, and some posting on Read more
The Carl Icahn-instigated “eBay Breakup” officially took place at the end of a Friday afternoon last summer, with PayPal going public the following Monday on July 20, 2015. One year later, the companies are faring much as expected. For sellers, Read more
Apparently Californians can’t get enough of the products offered through Amazon Prime. Amazon will add a tenth fulfillment center in California, making the Sacramento facility the fourth California fulfillment center Amazon has announced in the past four months and the Read more
