Amazon made two announcements on Monday impacting sellers who use its FBA fulfillment services. It’s adding another storage type for “extra large” items; and it’s making a change to its “Small and Light” program. Amazon announced that effective April 18, Read more
eBay is launching a new program to help small businesses in the UK by offering training and support. The eBay Business Roadshow will visit 12 cities and towns in the next 12 months and expects to reach thousands of small Read more
Amazon will run a sale on May 2 to celebrate “National Pet Month” where it will offer “tail-wagging” deals. According to today’s announcement: “On May 2, Amazon will offer 24 hours of big savings to all U.S. shoppers on a Read more
An online seller said they’re facing major financial difficulties over Amazon’s handling of a recall of Kinder Chocolate. Ferraro issued a voluntary recall of a number of its Kinder-branded products this month, “because of possible presence of Salmonella,” according to Read more
This. Never. Happens. Wall Street analysts who cover ecommerce companies will have to scramble on May 4th when eBay and Etsy’s earnings calls will overlap. Typically the companies’ respective CEOs and CFOs give a presentation and then open up the Read more
eBay is changing how it counts page views on sellers’ listings to be more accurate by filtering out more “non-human” traffic. It announced the change as part of the Spring Seller Update published on Wednesday. “To give you clearer insight Read more
Etsy is surveying sellers about their reaction to this week’s fee hike. The new fees are getting a lot of media attention as some sellers went “on strike” after petitioning the CEO to walk back the fee increase and institute Read more
Amazon is raising fees for sellers who use its fulfillment services to store their inventory and deliver their orders to buyers. The new “fuel and inflation surcharge” will be an extra 5% on top of its current Fulfillment by Amazon Read more
eBay replaced the head of its affiliate program after Michael Lill recently resigned for a job with another company. Reanne Berkstresser has been with eBay since 2015 when she started working for the company’s marketing team in Seattle focusing on Read more
An Etsy glitch is causing some listings to incorrectly display “Returns Not Accepted,” according to sellers. “All of my listings appear to have the “returns not accepted” badge,” a seller wrote on the Etsy discussion boards on Sunday. The seller Read more
