Responding to intellectual property concerns, Amazon has added language to its Handmade marketplace’s terms of use (TOU) to clarify what rights it obtains from participating artisans. The issue has troubled some artisans who find that the TOU is overly broad Read more
A new report indicates former eBay CEO John Donahoe may be looking for a job, having stepped down from the company in July after the breakup. His name was included in a report from Wall Street firm SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Read more
Many online merchants are not satisfied to simply post listings and hope that shoppers will find them, even on marketplaces that draw traffic to their sites. That’s why Bonanza, which launched in 2008 to give eBay sellers an alternative selling Read more
eBay requires sellers to do their best to upload tracking information to its system, and in the UK, eBay is now integrating with shipping couriers to help them do that. eBay is introducing an on-time delivery metric that will go into effect Read more
Sellers were unable to complete basic selling tasks on eBay on Wednesday morning as the site experienced the third outage in the past month. Things ground to a halt in the early morning hours the day before Thanksgiving – with Read more
eBay is running a promotion in which it is capping the Final Value Fee for sellers on up to 100 items. One version of the promotion caps the FVF at $5, the other at $10. The promotion is resulting in Read more
Target and Amazon are the top two Black Friday advertisers on Google Paid Search when it comes to spending. That’s according to AdGooroo, which studied Black Friday-related keywords on US Google desktop paid search ads between September 27 – November Read more
Amazon reset the passwords of some users’ accounts on Tuesday. ZDnet broke the news, reporting that Amazon had force-reset an unknown number of accounts after passwords may have been compromised. Amazon has not responded to our request for more information about the Read more
Amazon announced on Tuesday it will open its first Massachusetts fulfillment center. The company already has a Sortation Center in Stoughton and a Prime Now delivery hub in Everett, and it has research and technology offices throughout the state. EcommerceBytes Read more
eBay is getting into groceries – in Korea, that is. It will offer perishables such as vegetables, meat and dairy through Korea’s Gmarket and IAC platforms. The Partnership Program Director for eBay Korea Ju Cheol Lee said, “We’ve aligned with Read more
