eBay launched a new category called Digital Comics, but it’s not as groundbreaking a development as it sounds. eBay doesn’t actually sell digital comics on its site (nor can its sellers) – you must go to another site to purchase Read more
What if Amazon opened up its third-party marketplace to retailers’ in-store inventory? That’s exactly what eBay is attempting to do with the help of its acquisition of Milo, and a new report from Wall Street analysts says that may be Read more
First there was Black Friday. Then Cyber Monday. Based on the incentives being offered by Amazon, all of us who worked that long weekend anticipated a mass confusion of pickers and stowers fighting for space in the long aisles of Read more
Amazon sellers who want to make sales know how important it is to get exposure by appearing on the Buy Box, but that prime real estate is reserved for Featured Merchants only. For sellers who are not Featured Merchants on Read more
The appeal of the Etsy marketplace has been its position as a home for sellers of handmade and vintage items. To the layman, this presents an image of a crafter working on a piece of jewelry or a woven basket Read more
eBay is running an unusual promotion in which sellers can automatically relist items up to three times and pay no extra insertion fees. However, the promotion is by invitation, so only those sellers who are invited by eBay via email Read more
eBay is running a holiday marketing campaign that is limited to certain sellers, and it is using its new “Collections” feature as part of the promotion, called the “Wrapped & Ready Gift Event.” eBay sent an email to shoppers encouraging Read more
eBay’s Vice President in charge of developing and launching the marketplace’s new Cassini search engine left the company last month before launching its full functionality. An article published in EcommerceBytes Update over the weekend broke the news of Hugh Williams’ Read more
The honeymoon period for Amazon Webstore is over – Amazon is significantly raising the cost of operating a Webstore next year, perhaps a sign that the company is more confident of the offering. The monthly fee will double for all Read more
Remember when eBay would run free listing days every December 26th so that there would be enough inventory on the site in the weeks following Christmas into January? Those days are over and have, for the most part, been replaced Read more
