eBay partnered with Pitney Bowes to offer a program to make international sales easier for sellers and buyers, and now you can get a sense of how the U.S. processing center operates thanks to a video published by eBay. Seventy million Read more
Another report shows troubling trends for eBay. Wall Street analyst Colin Sebastian of Robert W. Baird said his proprietary Marketplace survey shows ongoing weakness in merchandise volume growth, with March in the low-single-digits (est. 2-3%) and slightly below February growth Read more
eBay appointed an executive from The Home Depot to lead its North American marketplace. Harry “Hal” Lawton was most recently Senior Vice President of Merchandising for the retailer. Lawton joined The Home Depot in 2005 as a director of strategic Read more
eBay is running a promotion through April 30th tied to its eBay Valet consignment program. The promotion is targeted at casual users of the site, encouraging recipients to either sell for free or try out its consignment program to sell Read more
eBay has traded an army of Trading Assistants for two logistics firms to power consignment selling on its Marketplace. ModusLink and Ingram Micro Logistics are currently the only participants in the eBay Valet consignment program, which eBay promotes on its Read more
A day dreaded by many in the U.S. is just a couple of days away. If you’ve filed your tax returns for 2014 and sent in your first installment of estimated taxes for 2015, congratulations. For the rest of you, Read more
If merchants can help clothing and apparel shoppers find the right fit when shopping online, they can potentially save a significant amount of money by reducing return rates. TechFlash reported on Wednesday that Amazon acquired Shoefitr, “whose 3-D technology helps consumers purchase Read more
PayPal is facing a lawsuit from federal regulators, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) had initiated a probe info Bill Me Later, now known as PayPal Credit, in 2013. PayPal acquired the company in 2008 Read more
Google has once again been exploited by scammers using doorway pages to drive shoppers to their websites. A website with the country code for Peru has scraped Etsy listings in order to get exposure in Google search results, and it’s Read more
When Australia’s Temando raised $50 million in funding, it shared some interesting insight into the changing world of fulfillment and shipping for large retailers. Retailers must now have the ability to automatically recommend the most cost-effective shipping route from the Read more
