eBay Ends Best Offer Beta Pilot Program
eBay sent a letter to users on Monday informing them of the end of a pilot program impacting the Best Offer feature in certain categories. “I think is AWESOME news,” wrote one seller who received […]
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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com.
Amazon Gains Advantage in 7-Day Delivery Deal with USPS
The United States Postal Service will begin delivering Amazon packages on Sundays beginning with two cities. The new service is kicking off in Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas, and Amazon said the new […]
Biggest Online Shopping Day Belongs to China
As sellers in North America are gearing up for some of the busiest online shopping days of the year, Chinese sellers are experiencing their peak day today, November 11th. Last year, Alibaba’s “11.11 Shopping Festival” […]
eBay Confuses and Irks Sellers with Holiday Shipping Discount
eBay is extending commercial rates it receives from the U.S. Postal Service to more sellers during the holidays, but for some, the practice is raising a number of questions while irking others. The eBay Labels program […]
eBay Kicks off Week-Long Listing Promotion
eBay is running an auction listing promotion this week, but if you did not receive an email invitation, it doesn’t necessarily mean you are prohibited from participating, as one EcommerceBytes reader discovered this week. The […]
PCI DSS 3.0 Brings Big Changes to ECommerce Merchants
Greg Rosenberg is a Security Engineer at Trustwave. In today’s guest column, he explains new standards for PCI DSS compliance that will impact online merchants who accept credit card payments directly through a merchant credit […]
Amazon Entices Retailers to Sell Kindle eBook Readers
Amazon is inviting retailers to sell its Kindles and is enticing them with a 10 percent commission on the price of Kindle ebooks purchased from the devices they sell for the first two years after […]
Etsy Research Shows Marketplace Sellers Are an Economic Force
In order to show the impact Etsy sellers have on the economy, it commissioned research firm GfK to conduct an anonymous online survey of 5,500 active U.S. sellers on topics including sources of start-up capital, […]
Amazon Payments Moves Closer to Serving Location-Based Ads
Amazon Payments made changes to its Privacy Notice and User Agreement and Unauthorized Transaction Policy, informing users through its annual notice emailed to Amazon Payments account holders at the end of October. “Each year we […]
Etsy Cooks up New Deal with Whole Foods Stores
Etsy has partnered with yet another retail chain, this time Whole Foods Market. The deal is designed to highlight the Etsy marketplace inside Whole Foods Market locations around the world. The partnership, called Ingredients for […]