eBay has traded an army of Trading Assistants for two logistics firms to power consignment selling on its Marketplace. ModusLink and Ingram Micro Logistics are currently the only participants in the eBay Valet consignment program, which eBay promotes on its Read more
If merchants can help clothing and apparel shoppers find the right fit when shopping online, they can potentially save a significant amount of money by reducing return rates. TechFlash reported on Wednesday that Amazon acquired Shoefitr, “whose 3-D technology helps consumers purchase Read more
Remember the recent blog post, “Kohl’s Bans eBay and Amazon Sellers,” about sellers who buy items from chainstores to resell online, a practice some called retail arbitrage, and how some of those stores were starting to ban resellers? The Wall Street Journal turned Read more
PayPal can pursue a joint venture with Amazon or Alibaba after its breakup with eBay later this year, without having to get approval from eBay, according to eBay CEO John Donahoe in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. PayPal updated Read more
Etsy has revamped its Seller Handbook, a resource for the 1.4 million users who actively sell on the site. The handbook offers content designed to educate and inspire sellers, and Nadine Heintz, Group Manager of Seller Communications, told EcommerceBytes the Read more
eBay is inviting certain sellers to participate in a new promotion that encourages them to list in the auction format. The marketplace suggested users sell secondhand items to pay for summer fun; to sell used sports apparel; and to sell Read more
Russia is enlisting the aid of Internet companies to potentially help keep tabs on citizens’ online behavior. eBay and PayPal will conform to a controversial Russian law about storing user data, according to the Moscow Times. eBay has made no Read more
Do you want eBay shoppers to see a breakdown of S&H so they can see how much you charge for handling? Many do not, but an eBay seller noticed a change in the way the marketplace displays his costs to Read more
The US Justice Department’s Antitrust division lauded the result of its ecommerce investigation into price fixing on Amazon Marketplace. The agency alleges that online seller David Topkins and other co-conspirators fixed pricing on certain posters sold through the Marketplace over Read more
eBay sellers have been moving more of their business to Amazon for a long time, as EcommerceBytes reader surveys bear out, so it was with interest we read Bloomberg’s report that seemed to state it was a recent trend. “Amazon’s Read more
