Etsy shoppers ran into problems trying to check out over the weekend. Beginning early Saturday morning, credit card payments through Etsy Direct Checkout were hung up and were not processed. It appears orders paid with PayPal or through the seller’s Read more
Amazon announced its fourth-quarter and full-year performance last week, and there was a lot to digest. EcommerceBytescovered the highlights of Amazon earnings from the seller’s point of view. While there’s a lot of buzz and conjecture about Amazon getting into other Read more
A few years ago, if you were told two ecommerce giants were going to both be running television ads during the Super Bowl, your thoughts might turn to Amazon and eBay. This year, Amazon is running its very first Super Read more
Valentine’s Day gift-givers will spend $19.7 billion, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), and eBay and Amazon are among the online marketplaces and merchants working hard to woo them. While that figure includes flowers, dinner, and a movie, that’s Read more
eBay appealed to international postal services to solve problems in cross-border parcel delivery, pointing to small businesses around the world who rely on postal shipping services. Stefan Krawczyk, head of Government Relations International at eBay, gave a keynote address at Read more
Etsy held a workshop this week to address questions about shipping. The marketplace invited sellers to post their questions and comments ahead of time on a dedicated discussion board thread, and then members of its shipping team responded. Among those Read more
What happens when shoppers can’t complete their purchases on Amazon for several hours on a Tuesday night? They turn to social networking sites in despair. Thousands of Amazon customers visited sites like Twitter, DownDetector.com, and IsItDownRightNow to see if they Read more
Taxes are complicated, and that’s just as true for state and local sales tax as it is for income tax. Online sellers are required to collect sales tax wherever they have a physical presence. Whether that’s one state or many, Read more
Etsy became certified as a B Corporation in 2012, a designation for for-profit companies that meet “rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.” On Tuesday, Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson announced it has been recertified as a B Read more
eBay provides a window into the world of pop culture, and while it can’t predict the outcome of the Super Bowl, it can serve up some fun stats about football fans and their purchases, as it did in a blog Read more
