eBay will begin rolling out the new version of Markdown Manager for sellers in Canada, it announced on Monday. The marketing tool is available to sellers who have a Stores subscription. Announcement follows: Over the coming weeks, Canadian sellers will Read more
Retail chain Target will offer free shipping for online holiday shoppers from Nov. 1 through Dec. 23, with no minimum purchase required, it announced Monday, further pressuring online merchants to offer free shipping. Target is kicking off a holiday multi-media Read more
Amazon launched a new Handmade Gift Shop featuring items from its Amazon Handmade marketplace sellers. Launched in 2015, Amazon Handmade now features hundreds of thousands of handcrafted items in 10 categories, including Jewelry, Home & Kitchen, Stationary and Party Supplies, Read more
Earlier this month, Bonanza informed sellers it was launching new seller ad initiatives, including ad campaigns on Facebook and Pinterest. Bonanza is also entering into new partnerships. In one such deal, a lifestyle publication for millennial women called PureWow will Read more
eBay Promoted Listings have been experiencing technical issues for the past 7 weeks, and the company said it will take another 4 weeks to fix. A seller who brought the problem to the company’s attention on Tuesday was skeptical over Read more
Etsy CEO Josh Silverman announced a new mission and impact strategy as he digs into his role of growing the do-good B Corp to satisfy Wall Street. While focused on monetizing the site, Silverman wrote in a blog post on Read more
In August, eBay Motors launched rent-a-repair manual, and today it launched rent-a-technician. Those aren’t really the names of the services, but they describe it in a nutshell. Shoppers can purchase “Virtual Tech sessions” in ten-minute ($19.95) or twenty-minute ($49.95) durations. Read more
eBay grew sales on its Marketplace 9% in the third quarter, or 7% after factoring in foreign exchange (FX-neutral). In a press release reporting the company’s total performance, eBay CEO Devin Wenig called the quarter its fastest volume growth in Read more
Amazon launched its Handmade marketplace in Canada today, and it won’t begin charging sellers fees until 2019. Sellers interested in selling through Handmade at Amazon.ca must apply and submit images of their products, production process, and workspace. Shoppers on Amazon Read more
eBay rolled out changes on Monday to due to Google Chrome’s mandate regarding HTTPS. eBay said sellers’ listings that contain HTTP content will display only a snippet of the description with a link to the full description. Sellers who want Read more
