Amazon is making its ‘Buy with Prime’ payments offering available to all US sellers by January 31st, saying in an announcement this week that offering the service can boost conversion rates for merchants by an average of 25%. It derived Read more
If you’re a seller who takes advantage of the eBay Standard Envelope shipping option for lightweight items that can be mailed in an envelope, be aware your costs will be rising later this month. eBay Standard Envelope uses the US Read more
Poshmark has over 80 million registered users across 90% of zip codes in the US, and its new owner is looking to consumer selling and “livestreaming commerce” for growth. We reported in October that Korean company Naver Corp. was acquiring Read more
A seller learned the hard way about a quirk involving eBay Standard Envelope, which offers proprietary tracking at a low cost for certain lightweight goods. A buyer selected eBay Standard Envelope on auction they’d won, but the seller couldn’t send Read more
Products from third-party sellers represent almost 60% of the units sold on Amazon, and of the nearly 2 million sellers that do business on the platform, most of them are small or medium-sized. In the US, sellers sold over 3.9 Read more
eBay will offer advice to sellers on growing their sales in the New Year. An eBay specialist from the Growth Advisor team will answer questions from sellers in this month’s eBay live-chat session. The theme of January’s chat session is: Read more
A US seller is baffled as to why eBay is charging them an international fee for a package going to Georgia – the “Peach State,” not the country Georgia. In the description of selling fees for that transaction, eBay included Read more
Amazon introduced a new metric that rates one aspect of sellers’ product detail pages. The “Potential Sales Lift” metric identifies listings that are missing key attributes – but goes further by showing sellers how much their sales might improve if Read more
Poshmark will give five lucky people $10,000 each to encourage sellers to list new items. The “January $10K Listing Event” sweepstakes runs between January 1st and February 5th. For a chance to win one of the weekly drawings, sellers must Read more
Nearly 100,000 members of eBay’s Main Street program from all over the country reached out to their elected officials in 2022 to lobby on issues related to ecommerce, according to the company. eBay sent a letter to members of the Read more
