In the old days of eBay, when you made a purchase or sold an item, complete transparency was assumed thanks to the feedback system. Buyers and sellers left feedback for each other that everyone could see, including information about the Read more
Despite being fierce rivals in the ecommerce space, eBay and Amazon came together this week thanks to mobile apps for the new Amazon Fire smartphone. In a press release touting its Appstore and new apps created especially for the Fire’s Read more
After redesigning its logo and then its homepage earlier this year, PayPal has began rolling out a new “user experience,” which it announced last month in a post on the PayPal blog. But some sellers expressed confusion over the new design and functionality as Read more
Selling 120 million different products in 30 different categories, Amazon anticipates reaching 200 million SKUs in the next two years. The normally tight-lipped Amazon has loosened its lips this month – the latest interview coming from a senior exec in Read more
Amazon is apparently considering a peer-to-peer fulfillment option for when sellers are out-of-stock or otherwise unable to fulfill an order themselves. The marketplace is currently conducting a survey of sellers titled, “The impact of shipping speed on customers and performance.” Read more
eBay has found an interesting way to build a personalized mailing list of collectors who might be interested in its new live-auction platform, coming soon, in which Sotheby’s is a key partner. eBay is running a sweepstakes offering a chance to Read more
Sellers are reporting major technical problems with USPS Click N Ship, a service they use to print online postage, with one avid user calling the glitches “the biggest ecommerce story of the month.” Last week, the service had an outage, Read more
Etsy is testing some enhancements to its “vacation mode” setting that sellers use when they need to put their listings and shop on hold. Previously Etsy sellers who used vacation mode were unable to edit their listings, for example, and Read more
Word leaked late last year that Amazon was partnering with the USPS on Sunday deliveries in certain markets, and in May, Amazon said it had already delivered millions of packages since it began Sunday deliveries. Now the company is explaining how it’s Read more
Amazon had some important reminders for third-party sellers this month. First, sellers who use Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) should weed out inventory that’s not moving. Amazon will assess its bi-annual FBA Long-Term Storage fee on August 15, 2014. “To avoid Read more
