Amazon currently displays reviews left for products across all of their variations, even when the variations have significant differences in features or specifications. Beginning February 12th, it will no longer do that, in order to “improve accuracy and help customers Read more
Sellers who don’t sell on Amazon were shocked to see their store listings appear in its shopping app under Shop Direct and Buy for Me features. They learned that Amazon had scraped their web stores, displayed their listings in the Read more
Returns are costly, so costly in fact, that Walmart suggests in some cases sellers might wish to let buyers keep an unwanted item instead of requiring them to return it. In describing the various returns services it offers to marketplace Read more
eBay is introducing “credit note” tax documents, it announced on the last day of 2025. The goal of credit notes is “to make billing clearer, more transparent, and easier for sellers to manage,” it said in its New Year’s Eve Read more
Online marketplaces like eBay are always looking for growth opportunities – and one of the most successful has been to charge sellers advertising fees to promote their listings. But at certain points in eBay’s history, it also experimented with introducing Read more
Amazon dropped a new policy update 2 days before Christmas that impacts sellers who fulfill their own orders rather than using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). On December 23, Amazon said a new policy would take effect on January 26, 2026: Read more
Sellers are buzzing about an eBay-branded blanket some received as a holiday gift. “Thank you so much for the thoughtful holiday gift! I was so surprised and delighted to receive the cozy eBay blanket. It was very kind of you Read more
Amazon Business, which now drives over $35 billion in annualized gross sales, announced new benefits of the Business Prime program and said the expanded benefits can help businesses save nearly $1,000 per year as well as streamline operations and simplify Read more
Etsy has some quirks related to shipping that can cause confusion on the part of sellers (and buyers). Etsy still hasn’t updated its system to show USPS Ground Advantage (“GA”), which replaced First-Class Packages and Parcel Select Ground in 2023. Read more
Amazon moderators acknowledged the company restricted some FBA listings on a regional basis after sellers reported the issue on the Amazon discussion boards. A reader told EcommerceBytes last month, “The problem involves a system glitch in Amazon’s FBA buy-ability logic Read more
