Etsy Marketplace saw a 6% drop in Gross Merchandise Sales (GMS) in the third quarter, year over year, declining to $2.5 billion. Active buyers decreased 0.4 percent year-over-year to 91.2 million. And the number of “habitual buyers” was 6.8 million, Read more
eBay grew third-quarter Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) by 2% to $18.3 billion, or up 1% on an FX-Neutral basis, year-over-year. eBay defines GMV as follows: “Gross Merchandise Volume consists of the total value of all paid transactions between users on Read more
Kidizen announced on Tuesday it had closed its marketplace, catching customers by surprise. A message on the Kidizen website from “Team Kidizen” said it had started the site over 10 years ago “to connect parents through the buying and selling Read more
eBay is rolling out the Fall Seller Update for 2024 today, and as we posted on the EcommerceBytes Blog, it includes changes to the eBay feedback policy likely to have implications for sellers – and there are no changes to Read more
Amazon said high demand has led to longer receiving times for shipments to some of its West Coast inbound locations from sellers who use its FBA fulfillment service. Amazon is rerouting shipments to other regions to increase capacity. “We know Read more
Amazon sellers had previously been able to filter reports by individual product (using the ASIN identifier). But the company announced on Friday that sellers can now filter business reports data by ASIN in Seller Central. The filter allows sellers to Read more
Etsy is adding hundreds of customer service reps to deal with the expected increase in demand during the holidays, it announced in a blog post on Thursday, and also revealed some of the ways it was planning to drive traffic Read more
eBay will no longer mail sellers IRS Form 1099K, which it is required to also send to the IRS showing the gross amount of sellers’ revenue generated on its platform if it reaches a certain threshold. eBay announced on Thursday Read more
Amazon added five new visual search features to its mobile shopping app in recent months “to help you quickly find what you’re looking for on Amazon,” according to a post written by Mita Mahadevan, Director of Visual Search and Search Read more
Bonanza caused a stir when it instituted a $2 fee for sellers who chose not to use its platform to print shipping labels, and a year later, it’s reversing the policy beginning next month. In the October 2024 announcement, Bonanza Read more
