Holiday shoppers turn to resale sites when they can’t find what they want elsewhere, and OfferUp said inventory issues and shipping delays are driving the trend this year. Its survey of secondhand shoppers found that 1 in 4 will use Read more
The Thanksgiving holiday kicks off a big weekend of holiday shopping, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But the National Retail Federation (NRF) said that while Thanksgiving weekend remains an extremely important milestone for retail sales, it does not necessarily Read more
eBay accidentally cancelled bids on some users’ accounts, and then suspended the accounts altogether. The reports came in through posts on the eBay discussion boards and on the Down Detector board for reporting technical issues across the Web – with Read more
Recent eBay category changes had many sellers of collectible postcards scrambling when they rolled out on October 12. Sellers said eBay rolled up the subcategories and left them to select one of two: Topographical Postcards and non-Topographical Postcards. Instead of Read more
An eBay fee hike is going into effect for UK members selling to other European countries. Business sellers in the UK will see an increase in international fees for Eurozone and Northern Europe, which will go from 0.5% to 1.05%, Read more
Amazon is making it easier for sellers who use its FBA fulfillment service to split shipments to multiple fulfillment centers – as long as they are using Amazon’s preferred shipping carriers. According to an announcement today, sellers can use Box-Level Read more
As eBay promotes Cost-per-Click ads during the holiday rush, it is also adding new features to the format that it announced and August and made available to all business sellers in September. Unlike standard eBay Promoted Listings, which only incur Read more
eBay sold its portfolio of online classifieds sites this year and gained a stake in Adevinta, the new owner. Today, Adevinta announced it sold two of the properties to investor firms. Gumtree UK and Motors.co.uk now belong to a consortium Read more
The head of Facebook payments is stepping down after 7 years. David Marcus announced the news in a post on a different social networking site – LinkedIn. Marcus had founded Zong and joined PayPal in 2011 when it acquired the Read more
The CEOs of retail giant Walmart, online marketplace Etsy, and other retailers met at the White House on Monday to brief President Biden on supply chain challenges. The roundtable included the director of the National Economic Council and the director Read more
