BC (Before Covid), obtaining shipping supplies was a routine chore for online sellers. Now it has become a challenge, as Jason Archambault can attest. His company, Fastpack Packaging, has been offering boxes, mailers, bubble wrap, and other shipping supplies to Read more
General Motors (GM) plans to launch a used-car marketplace, it announced on Wednesday. CarBravo will offer shoppers “choice, convenience, transparency and helps create peace of mind,” the automaker said. GM has run a pilot program and said dealers can now Read more
A new report is filled with factoids about Amazon fulfillment centers that FBA sellers may find fascinating. For example, the report says Amazon’s largest warehouse is located in Newport, Delaware and is 3.8 million square feet, which is approximately 67 Read more
Holiday consumer spending was up 8.6% over the 2021 season compared to the same period in 2020 – however, online prices in December were 3.1% higher compared to December of 2020, according to Adobe researchers. Adobe is out with two Read more
If you were going to hire a company to handle your customer service, you’d likely provide it with instructions on how to handle each kind of problem your customer might experience. But when the company you outsource your customer service Read more
eBay said the recent removal of seller groups on Facebook was not the result of any official eBay request, but the matter remains a mystery. On December 29, eBay published a post on its discussion boards stating it had become Read more
Every seller wants to learn how to get the highest prices for their online sales. But as we’ve warned previously, the government is watching to make sure sellers don’t engage in conduct with each other that it deems anti-competitive and Read more
The USPS offers self-scanning at over 2,200 Post Offices, EcommerceBytes has confirmed. For those online sellers dropping off pre-paid packages, it may help them save time standing in line and give them more confidence their packages were actually scanned in Read more
eBay said it was unaware of any issues related to eBay Store billing when the topic arose during Wednesday’s weekly chat. A seller said they had seen reports popping up about issues where eBay billed people “weeks and even months Read more
The FBI described a devious Google authentication scam targeting online sellers. The FBI Oregon’s Tech Tuesday segment explained how the scheme works, which we’ve summarized below. (Hat tip to Pymnts.com.) You post your real phone number on an online platform Read more
