Amazon said it helped protect customers from fake goods by working with law enforcement to seize over 240,000 counterfeits in China. Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU) tipped off agencies, which it said nabbed the imitation luxury, sports, and automotive brands. Read more
When a seller received a message telling them they had $12.33 to shop on eBay, they thought it might be part of a rewards program from eBay. Other sellers quickly disabused the seller of that notion. After the eye-catching headline, Read more
eBay’s Government Relations team invited sellers to its San Jose headquarters this week to meet with eBay CEO Jamie Iannone and other executives to talk about issues important to sellers. The sellers are part of eBay Main Street’s Small Business Read more
eBay promoted Adrian Fung to become its new Chief Marketing Officer. It’s unclear what this means for Andrea Stairs (Krishnappa), who was named eBay Chief Marketing Officer in January of 2021, replacing Suzy Deering who left eBay to become Global Read more
eBay will devote this month’s chat session to the topic of advertising through its Promoted Listings Ad program. Members of the eBay Ads team will be on hand in the eBay discussion boards for an hour to answer sellers’ questions. Read more
The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts issued a press release on Thursday announcing the sentencing of a former eBay contractor. The seventh defendant, former eBay security executive and former Santa Clara Police Captain Brian Gilbert, is awaiting Read more
Mercari is giving people an incentive to list items on its site through a holiday listing event and other promotions. It will offer coupons to new and existing customers who list items for sale between November 6 through November 13, Read more
Amazon introduced a tool last fall called Product Opportunity Explorer in beta, and it made it available to all sellers in June. The idea behind it is to point Amazon’s army of sellers to ways they can fill unmet customer Read more
If the goal of the Amazon Prime Early Access Sale was to get shoppers to go bargain hunting for holiday gifts early this year, it may have been a success. Amazon said “tens of millions” of Prime members shopped during Read more
In some cases, shoppers searching Google can buy items from Etsy sellers without ever visiting the Etsy website thanks to the Google Partner Checkout program. Etsy told sellers on Friday that listings selected for its Etsy Offsite Ads program may Read more
