Etsy provided an update about the meltdown of its payment-processing card reader, much to the relief of sellers who had been anxiously wondering if a week’s worth of in-person transactions could ever be recovered. Etsy spokesperson Nikki Summer pointed EcommerceBytes Read more
While eBay’s lawyers may be celebrating the fact that the company is off the hook in a lawsuit relating to a data breach that occurred last year, eBay’s marketing team may not be pleased, since coverage of a court’s decision Read more
eBay is running a promotion for sellers in the UK this week, but it’s for business sellers for a change. The UK marketplace frequently runs promotions for private (casual) sellers, and sales for business sellers are less frequent. However, this Read more
PayPal is continuing to make preparations for becoming an independent company once it breaks up with eBay. This week, it sent an email to its users informing them of changes to its policies. As the payments service explained in its Read more
eBay sent an email this week to buyers and sellers warning them of changes to its user agreement and privacy policy prompted in part by the breakup with PayPal. The changes go into effect on June 15 for current users. Read more
Online merchants who use UPS to ship packages paid lower fuel surcharges this year, but dim-weight pricing raised the cost of shipping. That’s the news gleaned from first-quarter financial results from UPS. Both UPS and FedEx instituted what’s called dimensional weight Read more
Etsy confirmed it is investigating reports of a problem with its card reader that allows sellers to process in-person credit card payments. Some sellers discovered last week that Etsy failed to show transactions they had processed through the readers. Etsy Read more
eBay is running a seller promotion in the UK, and as is typical on that country site, it’s designed to encourage private (casual) sellers to list items. The current promotion is by invitation only, and sellers must activate the promotion Read more
Etsy sellers began experiencing problems with Intagram, Facebook, and Wanelo on Thursday, highlighting the impact of glitches on sellers’ businesses as well as the love-hate relationship between marketplaces and social networking sites. Sellers who were blocked from the sites discussed Read more
Adding insult to injury, eBay increased fees for media sellers a day before a fee hike was supposed to go into effect. As part of the Spring Seller Update, eBay raised fees for media sellers from 5 cents to 30 Read more
