Amazon is making an unpopular change to a program that already receives criticism for what some sellers feel is a failure to protect them. Amazon announced on Wednesday, January 21, it would give sellers less time to file SAFE-T claims: Read more
eBay has long tried to stop other companies from scraping its site, and in the fall, it quietly added “buy for me” AI agents to the list of prohibited crawlers in its robots.txt file. This week, eBay informed customers by Read more
On Tuesday we published an article about eBay executives’ thoughts on AI and agentic shopping, including three of the ways they said AI would impact ecommerce. But Amazon executives also weighed in recently with their thoughts about AI and shared Read more
eBay executives shared their thoughts about AI and agentic shopping in a post on the eBay corporate blog on January 16th. The post comes amid a busy month of AI-related announcements from tech and ecommerce players, including Google, Microsoft, Etsy, Read more
Sellers can no longer rely on Ruby Lane shipping calculations beginning January 26. The vintage-and-antiques platform blamed changes USPS is making to its APIs – something the USPS has been warning developers about for a long time and about which Read more
Amazon is removing a safeguard for sellers of high-value items next month, a decision sellers are denouncing as untenable. On Friday, Amazon announced the following policy change: “Effective February 8, 2026, all US sellers must use the Amazon Prepaid Return Read more
Companies put a lot of adjectives in front of the word “commerce” (mobile, social, agentic, etc.) to show they are hip to the latest trends (and to signal they are prepared to monetize them). Now comes eBay with a plan Read more
In the space of 4 days, Etsy announced it would make sellers’ items available for purchase directly on Microsoft Copilot Checkout and in Google Search AI Mode, coming just 3 months after it made a similar announcement when it integrated Read more
In an effort to make mail more secure, the USPS will restrict access to tracking information for packages. Currently, anyone who has a tracking number (not just the shipper or the recipient) can enter the number into the tracking tool Read more
Like other companies, Amazon is attempting to show it is winning when it comes to AI, as evidenced by several press releases this week. On Tuesday, it said it was showcasing its vision for AI at the CES 2026 trade Read more
