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Author: Ina Steiner

Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

Amazon Grows Sales 10% in North America in Q4 2025

February 5, 2026February 5, 2026 Ina Steiner

Amazon grew total sales 14% in the fourth quarter of 2025, year-over-year (or 12% FX-neutral). North America segment sales increased 10% year-over-year, international segment sales increased 17% year-over-year (or 11% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates). And AWS segment sales Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon financials, Amazon Haul, Amazon Lens, Rufus2 Comments

Amazon Touts Prime’s Speed, Selection, and Rural Reach

February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon boasted that Prime members in the US received over 8 billion items the same or next day in 2025, over 30% more compared to 2024. It estimated that members saved an average of $550 on fast, free delivery last Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon Prime

New eBay for Sellers Webinars: Ad Strategies, Store Enhancements & AI

February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 Ina Steiner
eBay

eBay will host new monthly live-webinars for sellers, each focused on a single topic. The first will tackle advertising strategies, and next month’s session will tackle “Store Enhancements & AI.” Hosting the webinars will be “eBay experts and seller influencers,” Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay, eBay webinars, Kye Mou, Rishi Vora

Walmart Offers Incentives for Reviews – Don’t Try This at Home

February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 Ina Steiner

Did you know that Walmart offers a program that lets third-party sellers give incentives to buyers to leave reviews? However, Walmart’s Post-Purchase Reviews program is not available to all sellers. In fact, sellers on most marketplaces can get in trouble Read more

Marketplaces, NewsPaid product reviews, Product reviews, Walmart, Walmart Post-Purchase Reviews

USPS Delivered Duty Paid Launches for Outbound Packages

February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

USPS launched a new service for shippers who send goods internationally called USPS Delivered Duty Paid (DDP). Announced on Friday, it is currently available for packages going to Canada, Germany, and the UK and will expand to other countries in Read more

News, ShippingUSPS, USPS DDP, USPS Delivered Duty Paid

Amazon Changes How It Charges FBA Removal and Disposal Fees

January 30, 2026January 30, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon is changing how it charges sellers for removing and disposing of products stored in its FBA fulfillment centers. The fees themselves are not changing. However, Amazon will charge FBA removal and disposal fees “on a per-unit basis at the Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, Amazon FBA, Amazon FBA Removal and Disposal fees

Facebook Founder Sees Agentic Shopping as an Ecommerce Opportunity

January 29, 2026January 29, 2026 Ina Steiner
Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, said this week he sees agentic shopping as an opportunity, but there was no indication Facebook will morph into an Amazon or eBay, and he only hinted as to what was to come. Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAgentic shopping, AI, Chad Heaton, Facebook, Manus, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta

Would You Trust Amazon with Your QuickBooks?

January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 Ina Steiner
Amazon

Amazon is inviting sellers to use QuickBooks accounting in Seller Central, something it had promised to do last year. It’s a somewhat surprising move since sellers have long been suspicious of sharing information with Amazon over fears it will use Read more

Marketplaces, NewsAmazon, QuickBooks, Sasan Goodarzi

How to Turn off eBay Live Notifications

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 Ina Steiner
eBay

Notifications on mobile phones can be helpful, but sometimes they can verge on the annoying or can cause technical issues. Case in point: today, someone asked on the eBay discussion boards, “How do I keep from these eBay Live events Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay, eBay Live, eBay push notifications

Tariffs Changed How Buyers Shop, with Some Advice for Online Sellers

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 Ina Steiner
Online shopping cart

The number of Americans who support tariffs are up from last year, according to a new survey by Omnisend. That’s despite the fact that 56% of respondents said they believed consumers ultimately bore the cost of tariffs through higher prices. Read more

Marketplaces, NewsOmnisend, Tariffs

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