Etsy looked into reports of faltering sales in its vintage category but sees nothing to suggest a difference from other categories, a spokesperson told EcommerceBytes. Etsy is best known as a marketplace for handmade goods, but it is also home Read more
Now that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is trying to make a name for himself as a proponent of investigative journalism, some sellers have suggested a campaign to make him aware of practices at the company in which he remains Chairman Read more
After more than two weeks of extensive disruptions, Alibris says that its fulfillment and inventory processes are back in proper working order, and it is scrambling to push out orders that had been delayed and rebuild trust with its network of Read more
eBay and PayPal nearly doubled the amount of “mobile enabled commerce volume” (ECV) for the recent 5-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend period, seeing an increase of 96% year-over-year. eBay spokesperson Ryan Moore confirmed the mobile ECV figure took into account eBay Read more
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson took to the company blog to report strong sales over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Sales from Thursday to Cyber Monday increased 60% year-over-year compared to last year’s Thanksgiving weekend. There were more than 36 million visits Read more
eBay CEO John Donahoe named John Maeda the Chair of the new eBay Inc. Design Advisory Board. He will report directly to Donahoe. eBay said little about the new board, stating that Maeda was uniquely qualified to help eBay Inc. Read more
It’s about to get more expensive to use Amazon’s fulfillment services, especially for merchants who sell apparel, and it looks like FBA rate increases are now an annual event. The company explained the latest Fulfillment By Amazon fee hike on Read more
I should start off by saying this week’s column is for adults only. It wasn’t planned this way; it just happened. About week three of my Amazon workamper experience, one of my fellow nighttime stowers asked, “Seen a black bag Read more
EcommerceBytes is surveying readers on the optimal day and time to end an auction. The site has periodically conducted surveys on this topic since 1999 and used the findings to update the Interactive Auction Calendar, a guide that many readers use Read more
Rakuten COO and Chief Marketing Officer Bernard Luthi revealed how the marketplace fared over the Black Friday holiday shopping weekend in an EcommerceBytes podcast interview on Monday. Rakuten acquired Buy.com three years ago, and Luthi said Rakuten is the first Read more
