The United States Postal Service will begin delivering Amazon packages on Sundays beginning with two cities. The new service is kicking off in Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas, and Amazon said the new service would roll out to Read more
The continuing saga of a temporary stower working at an Amazon fulfillment center during the holiday shopping season. See Amazon Confidential: Confessions of a Warehouse Worker, Part One and Part Two. When I first arrived at our RV park in late fall to Read more
As sellers in North America are gearing up for some of the busiest online shopping days of the year, Chinese sellers are experiencing their peak day today, November 11th. Last year, Alibaba’s “11.11 Shopping Festival” day in China, or “Single’s Read more
eBay is extending commercial rates it receives from the U.S. Postal Service to more sellers during the holidays, but for some, the practice is raising a number of questions while irking others. The eBay Labels program allows sellers to pay for Read more
eBay is running an auction listing promotion this week, but if you did not receive an email invitation, it doesn’t necessarily mean you are prohibited from participating, as one EcommerceBytes reader discovered this week. The latest promotion gives invited sellers Read more
Ruby Lane will collaborate with fine art and antiques auction site Auctionata to hold global online auctions, with the pilot event, “Antiques & Vintage Pieces,” taking place on December 6, 2013. Prospective bidders can access the auction from both the Ruby Lane website Read more
Amazon is inviting retailers to sell its Kindles and is enticing them with a 10 percent commission on the price of Kindle ebooks purchased from the devices they sell for the first two years after a customer buys a device. Read more
In order to show the impact Etsy sellers have on the economy, it commissioned research firm GfK to conduct an anonymous online survey of 5,500 active U.S. sellers on topics including sources of start-up capital, motivation for starting a creative Read more
Amazon Payments made changes to its Privacy Notice and User Agreement and Unauthorized Transaction Policy, informing users through its annual notice emailed to Amazon Payments account holders at the end of October. “Each year we send out a notice to Read more
Etsy has partnered with yet another retail chain, this time Whole Foods Market. The deal is designed to highlight the Etsy marketplace inside Whole Foods Market locations around the world. The partnership, called Ingredients for Creativity, kicked off in Whole Read more
