Pinterest is working with ecommerce platforms to bring buyable pins to its social networking site, and it will be using customers’ purchase history to serve up targeted ads. As a result, it is updating its Privacy Policy, it told users Read more
eBay is running a free-listing promotion for private (casual) sellers in the UK. The sale is by invitation only, and invited private sellers must actively opt in in order to receive the free listings. “We know you love selling, so Read more
Amazon experienced an outage on Thursday that left sellers unable to complete tasks for well over 3 hours. The only positive aspect of the outage was that it did not appear to impact shoppers’ ability to search or purchase goods. Read more
A marketing campaign designed to get eBay customers re-engaged went terribly wrong recently, and shoppers are underwhelmed by eBay’s attempt to placate them after it reneged on the offer. eBay UK had sent shoppers coupons for 20% off a purchase Read more
eBay’s jettisoning of PayPal will be complete by July 17th, it announced on Friday, at which point the Marketplaces business will have to stand on its own. But sellers can likely expect no major changes when it comes to how Read more
eBay is running a 5-day promotion to encourage sellers to list longer-duration listings using the fixed-price format. Sellers can list up to 1,000 fixed-price listings over the course of the 5 days and pay no insertion fees. However, they must Read more
The mystery surrounding Amazon’s Treasure Truck that’s been driving around the streets of Seattle for the past few days has been revealed – Cnet reports that the truck will deliver daily deals to customers in the city. “Customers in the Read more
A month after emailing sellers inviting them to sign up to learn more about a new store for handmade goods, Amazon published an introductory landing page with more information – including seller fees. Normally sellers on Amazon are not really branded in Read more
Some people initially thought Amazon’s dramatic revelation to 60 Minutes that it was developing drones to deliver packages was a publicity stunt it was so unheard of at the time, but the company is spending a lot of resources on Read more
eBay’s future CEO Devin Wenig is counting on consumer sellers to help turn the marketplace around – the company even has a “Head of Consumer Selling” at eBay Marketplaces, Vincent Payen – and a post Father’s Day pitch is one Read more
