A significant number of people are supplementing their holiday budget by selling personal items, and they’re also more willing to buy used this year. Mercari commissioned Ipsos to conduct a survey of 1,000 people online in October, and 46% of Read more
Last week, Etsy invited sellers to participate in its Cyber Week Sales Event – a minimum discount of 20% is required to be eligible for exposure. This week, Etsy shared some tips for sellers to optimize holiday sales, basing its Read more
As people get in the holiday spirit, ecommerce platforms want inventory that gift-givers are looking for. That seems to be the incentive behind Mercari’s new holiday sweepstakes in which it is encouraging users to list certain types of items. Sellers Read more
As sellers head into the holiday season and eye adding a social component to their operations, Facebook wants the ecommerce world to know that it is open for business. There are several channels on Facebook that support ecommerce, but the Read more
With England under a strict lockdown this month, eBay is offering a break to some sellers. Those with an eBay.co.uk store subscription (a Basic, Featured or Anchor Shop) on November 5, 2020 who close their eBay Shop in November may Read more
Walmart is leveraging its distribution centers to increase its ecommerce capabilities. It will create areas inside 42 of its Regional Distribution Centers that it’s calling “pop-up eCommerce Distribution Centers” (eDCs) to meet the growing demand of online orders. Walmart expects Read more
A reader told EcommerceBytes eBay is coaxing him into signing up for Managed Payments by offering him a $15 coupon. But, he wondered, “If managed payments is going to be mandatory, why is eBay offering me $15 to sign up?” Read more
Mailboxes just aren’t big enough to hold Amazon orders for some customers, it seems. Amazon is offering to deliver orders inside shoppers’ garages in over 4,000 US cities. That’s up from 50 cities when in-garage delivery first launched. Key by Read more
Amazon is blocking FedEx Ground for certain Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP) orders during the holiday shopping season. SFP are items that display the Prime badge indicating 2-day delivery, but are fulfilled by sellers rather than by Amazon. (See clarification below.) Read more
Etsy invited sellers to participate in the Etsy Cyber Week sale. Because it manages payments on behalf of sellers, it can promote such sales on behalf of sellers without having to subsidize the sales itself. In order to participate, sellers Read more
