eBay acquired Ticket Utils to expand the capabilities of its StubHub marketplace. Ticket Utils helps large ticket sellers manage inventory and distribution, the company announced on Thursday. It will also let ticket sellers set up online stores. eBay said it Read more
This month, Etsy experienced one of the longest-duration marketplace payment problems we can recall, and now the situation has taken another ugly twist as Etsy charged some buyers a second time for single purchases made several days or more than Read more
We’ve been hearing a lot about eBay’s Structured Data initiative, but on Thursday, eBay Chief Technology Officer Steve Fisher wrote about a bigger plan to “replatform” the marketplace. “We have embarked on an ambitious, multi-year evolution of our shopping platform Read more
Mastercard unveiled a new digital payment service three years ago called Masterpass, but it has not proven itself a major threat to PayPal. On Thursday, Mastercard announced a revamped Masterpass that it called an important industry milestone: consumers can now make simple Read more
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees postal matters, unanimously approved a reform bill July 12. In announcing the bill, Committee Chairman Chaffetz called the outlook for the Postal Service “grim” without improvements contained in the bill. Postmaster General Read more
Amazon Prime Day is all about the deals, and new data suggests third-party sellers may not have been as big a driver of those deals as you might think. “Close to half (48%) of Prime Day deals in the US Read more
A Florida company has sued over 150 companies over the ability to click a link and track packages during shipping, according to Bloomberg BNA. Shipping and Transit LLC owns patents related to monitoring vehicles’ movement and has filed infringement lawsuits Read more
Amazon called Prime Day 2016 a “record-breaking success” for participating sellers and small businesses, reporting that sellers who offered deals to Prime members saw orders nearly triple year-over-year on Prime Day, both worldwide and in the US. As most Amazon Read more
Etsy is rolling out a new design for Etsy Conversations, or Convos as users call the member-to-member messaging system. The changes are primarily cosmetic according to the company and, as with most changes companies roll out these days, they are designed Read more
eBay is testing a new program in the UK to make it easier for people to sell unwanted goods on its marketplace. While many are familiar with eBay’s well publicized efforts to bring structured data to its site, another key Read more
