With 11 weeks left before Christmas Day, the USPS is preparing online shoppers by publishing holiday shipping deadlines. Those are the dates the Postal Service recommends shippers mail their packages in order to have them delivered by December 25, 2024. Read more
Poshmark slashed fees for sellers and is shifting some of the burden to buyers. It’s also testing a shipping discount program called Posh Pass. As of October 3rd, sellers now pay a fixed fee of between $1 – $3 plus Read more
Etsy will feature several sellers at a holiday pop-up event in New York City at the end of October. The Etsy Holiday Pop-Up is an “immersive IRL shopping experience coming to NYC’s vibrant West Village.” Certain sellers will be on Read more
A seller reported a problem with shipping labels on Saturday that eBay confirmed on Monday was a known, sitewide issue. “I had 6 orders that needed shipping,” the seller wrote on a thread on the eBay discussion boards. “Got through Read more
eBay is hopping on the free-to-sell bandwagon, although still in a very limited way. As of September 30, 2024, eBay UK removed selling fees for “private” sellers (as opposed to “business” sellers, designations that do not exist in the US). Read more
eBay named Gigi Ganatra Duff its new Chief Communications Officer, a role last filled by Steve Wymer, who eBay fired in 2019. But unlike Wymer or his predecessor Dan Tarman, Duff won’t report directly to eBay’s CEO. Instead, she will Read more
In late July, Amazon recommended sellers send their FBA inventory to fulfillment centers in August and September in preparation for the holidays. Now some sellers are reporting issues when attempting to send their inventory in October due to storage capacity Read more
eBay hired Samantha Wellington as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Secretary, replacing Marie Oh Huber. eBay CEO Jamie Iannone had announced Huber’s departure in March, writing that she was leaving the company to pursue a new Read more
eBay added a new member to its Board of Directors on September 18, 2024, bringing the total number of directors to eleven. Bill Nash is CEO of CarMax, “the largest retailer of used cars in the U.S., which includes its Read more
The idea of Amazon and PayPal partnering would have seemed impossible just a few years ago for several reasons – including the fact that eBay owned PayPal until it was forced to break up by activist investor Carl Icahn in Read more
