Many’s the seller who sends items to Amazon’s warehouses only to find out upon arrival the marketplace considers the item to be hazardous material and slates the shipment for destruction. But Amazon has a pilot program that allow certain sellers Read more
The service that let you “blog” fast wants you to “buy” fast as well. Twitter is testing a new ecommerce feature that lets merchants and artists sell through their tweets. Taking much more than 140 characters to explain the new Read more
A 24-year veteran of Bain & Company has joined eBay as its Global Head of Strategy, helping to boost its gender diversity numbers. Kris Miller, who was a partner and also served on the board of directors at Bain, joined Read more
Each year online sellers have the opportunity to rate the online payments services they use to process their ecommerce payments in the Sellers Choice Awards, and this year’s results were published in Sunday’s EcommerceBytes Update newsletter. Readers evaluated 13 online Read more
eBay promised to provide sellers with information about possible fee adjustments and protections after an incident left many buyers and sellers unable to sign in to their eBay accounts last Wednesday. eBay sent emails on Fridays to some sellers it identified as having been Read more
Etsy shoppers and sellers will have to get used to a new way of navigating the site after the marketplace launched new navigation and design throughout the site on Thursday. Some sellers were already posting about having difficulty accessing their Read more
The President of eBay Marketplaces indicated the company is still facing headwinds following a security breach earlier this year that led to it requiring customers to reset their passwords. Devin Wenig was speaking at a “fireside chat” at the Citi Read more
The longtime bearer of Amazon financial news will retire next year. Amazon issued a press release announcing Thomas J. Szkutak, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will retire from the company in June 2015. The CFO said he looked Read more
Amazon is encouraging third-party merchants to offer free shipping – it turns out that what some sellers thought might be a test is actually a new shipping option it is offering to sellers. EcommerceBytes wrote about reports of the new Free Read more
This month, eBay UK is making local pickup a default option by rolling out Click & Collect on all eligible listings. This means buyers will be able to choose to pick up their item from one of over 650 Argos Read more
