Major online marketplaces and the California Attorney General adopted a Joint Statement of Principles in an effort to combat the sale and resale of stolen goods. Among the ecommerce companies signing the document who agreed to work with retail chains Read more
Amazon will hold this year’s Prime Day shopping event on July 11 – 12, 2023, it officially announced today: “New deals will drop every 30 minutes during select periods throughout the event, with deep discounts on products from the hottest Read more
Amazon announced that sellers who use its FBA fulfillment service can now run Outlet deals on 60% more products with excess inventory. It cited internal data to entice sellers, reporting that sellers who follow recommendations to run Outlet deals see Read more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is going full steam ahead on enforcing a new law that takes effect next week that requires marketplaces to disclose sellers’ names and full addresses to their buyers. Last week, eBay sent the following email Read more
Alibaba said its Chinese marketplaces saw strong growth during this year’s 6.18 shopping festival, which is China’s second-largest shopping festival after 11.11 Singles’ Day event held in November. A record number of merchants participated in China’s mid-year shopping festival 6.18 Read more
eBay is holding special training sessions to bring attention its trading cards category and attract buyers and entice them to become sellers as well. Participants in eBay Collectors Camps will receive training from experts, with the first event to kick Read more
eBay and Amazon are holding seller conferences in September, and Poshmark will hold its annual in-person PoshFest event in October. eBay Open will take place virtually on September 27-29, and Amazon Accelerate will take place in-person in Seattle on September Read more
eBay said more people are buying branded and designer children’s sneakers, so it added kids’ shoes to its Authenticity Guarantee program. On eBay’s website, it explains that sneakers must have a minimum price of $75 (along with other eligibility criteria), Read more
Etsy is limiting its liability and making other changes to the legal provisions in its Terms of Use that buyers and sellers agree to when using the site. (Legally speaking, visitors agree to the terms even if they are simply Read more
Amazon Prime shoppers are attracted to offers that feature the Prime badge since they know they’ll get fast, free shipping on their orders. But the only way most sellers can get the badge is to participate in Amazon’s FBA fulfillment Read more
