Remember the recent blog post, “Kohl’s Bans eBay and Amazon Sellers,” about sellers who buy items from chainstores to resell online, a practice some called retail arbitrage, and how some of those stores were starting to ban resellers? The Wall Street Journal turned Read more
PayPal can pursue a joint venture with Amazon or Alibaba after its breakup with eBay later this year, without having to get approval from eBay, according to eBay CEO John Donahoe in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. PayPal updated Read more
Etsy has revamped its Seller Handbook, a resource for the 1.4 million users who actively sell on the site. The handbook offers content designed to educate and inspire sellers, and Nadine Heintz, Group Manager of Seller Communications, told EcommerceBytes the Read more
eBay is inviting certain sellers to participate in a new promotion that encourages them to list in the auction format. The marketplace suggested users sell secondhand items to pay for summer fun; to sell used sports apparel; and to sell Read more
Russia is enlisting the aid of Internet companies to potentially help keep tabs on citizens’ online behavior. eBay and PayPal will conform to a controversial Russian law about storing user data, according to the Moscow Times. eBay has made no Read more
Do you want eBay shoppers to see a breakdown of S&H so they can see how much you charge for handling? Many do not, but an eBay seller noticed a change in the way the marketplace displays his costs to Read more
After a failed attempt to sell itself to UPS, TNT Express has entered into an agreement with FedEx. According to a joint press release, the two companies said they had reached conditional agreement on a recommended all-cash public offer of Read more
Square, known for providing online payment solutions to local businesses and retailers, now offers marketing tools for customers who use Square Register. The suite of “powerful Customer Engagement tools” link your online marketing efforts to sales in the real world, Read more
Geeks around the Web are freaking out because they can’t see who is visiting their websites. “Google Analytics is down! It will never work again! Whywhywhywhywhy!?!?!” tweeted one webmaster. Another tweeted, “Google Analytics, you’ve been working hard and you deserve Read more
In the middle of a major technical problem that disrupted about 5% of its merchants for 5 days, BigCommerce’s Head of Operations and Site Reliability Scott Baker had harsh words for IBM. Bigcommerce is a store-hosting platform. In a status Read more
