In January, Amazon told sellers who use Fulfillment By Amazon that it would stop offering optional, fee-based prep services for sharp objects beginning in April. On Monday, Amazon informed sellers it would stop offering prep services altogether beginning January 1, Read more
PayPal launched a new service called “Pay with Crypto,” allowing consumers from around the world to pay US merchants with 100 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, and connect wallets including Binance, Coinbase, and Kraken. According to PayPal, Pay with Crypto Read more
A longtime EcommerceBytes reader spotted free polybag envelopes at his local post office this week that the USPS was making available to customers wishing to return items to merchants without the need to package them inside a box or bag. Read more
Once Walmart opened its website to allow third-parties to sell on its website, it had to deal with problematic behavior from “bad” sellers, just as every online marketplace must do. On Tuesday, Walmart published a post describing the actions it Read more
Amazon saw a 9% increase in the sale of used products and returns in Europe in 2024, surpassing 2 billion euros. The online market for secondhand goods in Europe is worth 21.6 billion euros, Amazon said, with over two out Read more
eBay sellers are asking colleagues for advice after receiving invitations to participate in eBay’s “Pro Seller” due in part to the lack of information about the program. It appears the program is a new name for the eBay Growth Advisor Read more
Amazon unveiled a new “Fee Explainer” tool to help sellers better understand the fees that it charges to their selling accounts. It explained the Fee Explainer in a post on the Amazon Seller Announcement board. “For each fee type, the Read more
eBay began charging buyer fees in the UK this year, following in the footsteps of Mercari, Poshmark, Etsy’s Depop, and collectibles site Delcampe. Aside from the unpopularity of buyer fees, the 75-pence fixed portion of eBay’s fees had a disproportionate Read more
Reports are flooding in that eBay sent sellers an extra payout on Friday morning from those only scheduled to receive weekly payouts on Tuesdays. One of the readers alerting us to the issue wrote, “I am set to receive weekly Read more
eBay developers may not use its content or its data to train Artificial Intelligence (AI), nor may developers ingest eBay data into gen-AI models or tools. On June 24th, eBay updated its API license agreement where it added the new Read more
