We told you on Thursday about an incidentin which eBay required a small subset of users to reset their passwords on Wednesday. On Friday, eBay sent them an email explanation along with a $25 coupon. The title of the email was, Read more
Etsy is rolling out a change to search this week – a sentence that can strike fear into the heart of an online seller. But it will only impact search results when shoppers enter very broad search terms – “owl,” Read more
eBay UK is running another promotion for private (casual) sellers. Those invited to participate can list up to 100 listings using auction or fixed-price format and pay no insertion fees. Sellers are required to opt-in using an RSVP link in Read more
Amazon.com announced net sales grew 20% in the second quarter to $23.18 billion, year over year – but after excluding the impact of foreign exchange, it grew sales 27%. Those are impressive numbers these days in ecommerce. Worldwide unit growth Read more
eBay is choosing to celebrate its 20th anniversary with an event for sellers rather than a special day of deals for customers, as its rival Amazon had done earlier this month with Prime Day. eBay sent invitations to sellers on Read more
Amazon is hosting a developer day next month in San Francisco. You might recall eBay developer days and think it’s all about ecommerce, but on the surface, it’s about mobile games and entertainment apps. That’s because the event is being Read more
Some eBay users became alarmed on Wednesday when eBay required them to reset their passwords. Spokesperson Ryan Moore confirmed the issue, telling EcommerceBytes the issue impacted a small subset of users – “far less than 0.1%,” he said. We first Read more
On May 14th, eBay announced that longtime board member Scott Cook would be appointed to the PayPal board after the split. In a filing with the SEC this week, eBay revealed that Cook “subsequently determined that he would not join Read more
For an ecommerce site that hasn’t even launched, Jet has received lots of media attention over the past year or so. And as the site prepares to open to the public on Tuesday, there’s even more media frenzy. Tom’s Guide explains Read more
eBay acquired a used-clothing shop Twice that allowed people to send in their used clothing and accessories and have the company sell the items for them on a consignment basis. The founders told customers it was shutting down the site Read more
