eBay announced it’s expanding the rollout of Managed Payments in parts of Europe by the end of the first quarter. The company is currently rolling out its own payments management to sellers in the US, Germany, UK, Australia and Canada. Read more
Walmart offered encouragement to third-party marketplace sellers to kick off the New Year, encouraging them to become Pro Sellers and review changes to its APIs to become more efficient. Marketplaces may hide or deactivate listings for a number of reasons, Read more
eBay manager Brian Burke discussed annual shipping-carrier rate increases during a podcast on Tuesday. He indicated eBay would post the new rates by the time of the podcast airing, though they hadn’t appeared on the Seller Announcement board as of Read more
In 2019, Poshmark users interacted socially an average of 56 million times a day (including 38 million social “shares”), totaling 20.5 billion social interactions in 2019. It believes that’s key to its success, it made clear in its recent filing Read more
Amazon bought 11 Boeing 767-300 aircraft from commercial airlines to support its “growing customer base,” the marketplace announced on Tuesday. They will be operating in Amazon’s network by 2022. “Amazon Air’s fleet expansion comes at a time when customers are Read more
eBay is mandating sellers switch from PayPal to its own system of payment processing, but eBay Managed Payments excludes many categories of items, including coins and bullion. Today, eBay sent an email to sellers in some of those categories informing Read more
The head of eBay’s affiliate marketing program summarized changes the company made to the program in 2020 in a message to members. Michael Lill, Director of eBay Partner Network (ePN), said despite the challenges of the pandemic, ePN had a Read more
Amazon said it delivered billions of items to customers around the world this holiday season in its annual post. As usual, you’ll have to wait until mid- to late-January to find more color when it releases its fourth-quarter financial results Read more
eBay UK General Manager Murray Lambell thanked sellers in a New Year’s message this month and advised them of new initiatives to come in 2021. Lambell said sellers are eBay’s most important customer, serving 28 million monthly shoppers in the Read more
Local-shopping app OfferUp named Niti Bashambu its new Chief Product Officer. During a 10-year stint at IAC, the executive helped lead the company’s brands that included Angie’s List, Dotdash, Vimeo, Expedia and Match Group. At OfferUp, Bashambu will head up Read more
