Ecommerce Industry News
Advertising costs on online marketplaces always increase around the holiday shopping season as merchants vie for shoppers’ eyeballs. This year will be no exception, according to Alasdair McLean-Foreman, CEO and founder of Teikametrics, which optimizes […]
Bonanza is adding a new 25-cent transaction fee for all sales at the end of August. Sellers can continue to post items to Bonanza for free – the new transaction fee will be assessed on […]
Amazon is running a new promotion for sellers who are registered with the Amazon Brand Registry – it’s giving them access to what it calls Premium A+ content at no charge, which can help boost […]
eBay sellers were flummoxed after they lost thousands of free listings in select categories on August 1st. Sellers were left wondering if eBay had decided to end the promotional perk for Stores without notice or […]
Etsy invited sellers to mark down prices in order to get visibility in its annual Labor Day sales event, but this year, Etsy is marketing the event only to shoppers on the Etsy mobile app. […]
Musicians and audiophiles have a new marketplace to buy and sell gear. Sweetwater, which was founded in 1979 and sells music instruments and audio gear, and announced its new Gear Exchange on Thursday. And – […]
Three years ago, Etsy had changed its buyer-seller messaging system to be more like an instant-messaging system, and this summer, Etsy made another major change to the system. The company told sellers it was making […]
iRobot is cleaning up with a $1.7 billion sale to Amazon. iRobot’s product portfolio features technologies and advanced concepts in cleaning, mapping and navigation, according to the announcement. The deal is reminiscent of Amazon’s acquisitions […]
eBay invited sellers to ask questions about its research tools at its next monthly chat session scheduled for next week. A product manager for eBay’s Seller Experience – Growth & Insights team, Lucan McRandall, will […]
Amazon rolled back a policy that had required low-volume sellers to get zero-deductible commercial liability insurance plans. Last fall, Amazon began requiring sellers to take out a product liability insurance policy once they reached $10,000 […]