Etsy has decided to abandon a feature it had been testing that was designed to help shoppers browsing the site. In late June, Etsy notified members of a new “Recommended categories” section on the Etsy homepage on both the desktop Read more
If you aren’t attending the eBay OPEN event for sellers in Las Vegas this week, you can still catch some of the sessions. eBay will be more than “webcasting” parts of the event – it’s making it a “virtual” conference. Read more
eBay experienced a bug on Wednesday that was driving users crazy as they continually encountered a popup box that included the words “object Object” in brackets. On this eBay discussion board thread, a user shared a picture of the popup. “It’s Read more
eBay CEO Devin Wenig is now clear about eBay’s brand, he told Wall Street analysts on Wednesday, stating, “we deliver a compelling value proposition to help every person get their version of perfect, no matter what it is.” Explaining that Read more
Etsy’s reputation is taking a bruising due to a payments processing technical disaster that is being blamed on its third-party partner Worldpay. Etsy sellers are concerned that their reputations are also being harmed as customers have experienced myriad problems that Read more
eBay sellers say they are unable to respond to feedback left by their buyers. A report on Ecommerce EKG prompted us to investigate, and we discovered this problem has been ongoing since at least December. On Wednesday, a seller reported, Read more
eBay grew Marketplaces GMV 5% on an FX-neutral basis to $19.8 billion in the second quarter of 2016 (April, May, and June), while Marketplaces revenue grew 3%. Adding in StubHub ($1.1 billion in GMV), eBay’s total GMV for the quarter Read more
Amazon.com’s latest Prime Day recently took place, with the giant online retailer calling this second occurrence their biggest day ever, with US orders over 50 percent better than last year’s event. While it was a great day for Amazon, it Read more
eBay is hosting a conference for sellers in Las Vegas on July 26-29 called eBay OPEN, and it has added an event for sellers in the UK to be held on August 10th. eBay Connect is taking place in Manchester and is Read more
If eBay was a superhero, its special power would be identifying shopping trends, it seemed to indicate in a post on its corporate blog on Tuesday. eBay bragged it can see what people are looking for and what they’re buying, Read more
