Amazon is hosting six seller summits to be held in four cities this year. The Amazon Selling Partner Summit (“Build your business on Amazon”) are 2-day events that cover topics near and dear to sellers’ hearts. Account Health and Featured Read more
Etsy is continuing to work on fixing and improving its newly revamped forums and groups (called Teams). The boards were down for nearly two weeks last month as it switched platforms, and Etsy provided an update this week on issues Read more
eBay expanded its Retail Revival initiative to Greensboro, North Carolina, the fifth city in the program and the third in the US. eBay helps local retailers in the program sell on its marketplace, providing them with customized training, one-on-one coaching, Read more
eBay announced that sellers in the UK must upload tracking information for orders in which they have used a tracking service – before the estimated delivery date has passed. Sending the tracking number to the buyer via email won’t protect Read more
Much of the compensation executives receive come in the form of stock options, and it’s routine for them to cash out periodically. But since all eyes are on eBay due to activist investor Elliott Management pressuring the Board, we took Read more
eBay is putting Turbo Lister out of its misery in the UK this month, but it will leave it on life support in the US. An eBay moderator was forced to once again address sellers’ questions about the listing tool. Read more
Amazon appointed a Starbucks executive to its Board of Directors. Rosalind G. Brewer, 55, is Chief Operating Officer of Starbucks Corporation and is the former CEO of Walmart’s membership-only retail warehouse club Sam’s Club. While head of Sam’s Club, Brewer Read more
Amazon released earnings on Thursday, and there were some takeaways about third-party merchant sales, changes in seller fees, Amazon delivery, advertising, and upcoming investment in fulfillment center capacity. Amazon grew 2018 fourth quarter sales 20% to $72.4 billion. Sales for Read more
eBay is discounting Promoted Listings to entice sellers to advertise. The promotion invites sellers to try Promoted Listing ads at 60% off (up to $1,000) and is valid through February 15, 2019. With Promoted Listings, sellers pay advertising fees only Read more
eBay released fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, and it didn’t do anything to dissuade the activist investor from targeting the company. For a refresher, see last week’s article, eBay Once Again in Crosshairs of Activist Investor. Elliott Management said eBay needs Read more
