eBay hired a Walmart.com executive to lead merchandising efforts for Fashion, Home & Garden, Collectibles & Art, and Lifestyle & Media. Jill Ramsey is eBay’s new Vice President of Soft Goods, North America. She spent 15 years at Walmart, having Read more
Artnet News reports that eBay Chief Curator Michael Moskowitz has left the company. Moskowitz took great pains to tell the publication it was a mutual decision. He said his primary function at eBay had been to revamp its public image by Read more
Etsy sellers are questioning the company’s decision to use seller location in search ranking in two international markets. Etsy announced Friday, “In order to create a better local shopping experience, we’ve been testing an updated search ranking to make locally-made items Read more
Product reviews provide invaluable word of mouth recommendations that can make or break sales of items. Sellers like Amazon.com have long placed importance on these reviews, and the company recently stepped up its efforts to combat the phony ones that Read more
eBay UK is running a special invitation-only promotion in which it is giving away 100 free auction listings along with 75% off Final Value Fees for those items that end in a sale. Who can participate? “eBay.co.uk registered private sellers Read more
eBay is running another promotion – this one lets eligible sellers list up to five auction or fixed-price listings and pay no insertion fees – and no final value fees. The promotion is targeted at first-time sellers, though some existing Read more
Dana Truesdale and Robin Zebley have sold their artwork on Etsy for years, so when they learned about Amazon’s new Handmade marketplace, both viewed it as another potentially attractive sales channel. “When I heard about Amazon’s Handmade, I decided to Read more
Off-site sellers who enjoyed a steady stream of traffic from Amazon Product Ads will bid farewell to that at the end of October. The big online retailer disclosed over the summer that the service would end on Halloween. Likewise, what had appeared Read more
Etsy rolled out some changes for sellers this week to make it easier to complete selling tasks on the go and promote their shops on social networks. On Wednesday, Etsy launched Shop Settings, a new feature for the Sell on Read more
Sellers are already opted in to eBay’s Click & Collect program in the UK, and now eBay is encouraging them to drop off their sold items at an Argos location and let the store send the item to their buyer. Read more
