Etsy sellers who advertise their listings ran into a problem last week, reporting suspicious activity on their Promoted Listing ads that had all the earmarks of click fraud. As we reported on the AuctionBytes Blog, sellers said their daily budgets Read more
Amazon Pay will be speaking about payment innovations at several events next month. Amazon Pay Vice President Patrick Gauthier will be speaking at Money 20/20 Europe in a session titled, “Delivering for the connected consumer in the new era of Read more
Amazon denied a report in Bloomberg that it was purging suppliers. In the article, “Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Long-Feared Purge of Small Suppliers,” the news source wrote, “In the next few months, bulk orders will dry up for Read more
In 2014, a headlamp purchased on Amazon allegedly caused a fire that burned down a Maryland couple’s home. The couple’s insurance company sued Amazon and lost, and last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the Read more
eBay recently denied it was planning to launch virtual currency, but Facebook seems increasingly likely to do so. The BBC reported that Facebook had met with the Bank of England on plans to set up a digital payments system in Read more
Etsy sellers who list digital goods for sale have been unable to upload files this holiday weekend. “This is the 2nd day. If you sell instant downloads you can’t list anything,” a seller reported today on this thread. Based on Read more
PayPal is updating its User Agreement effective July 9, 2019. The company highlighted several changes in three categories (buyers, sellers, and sellers with PayPal Website Payments Pro and Virtual Terminal Agreements). The change that looks to be of greatest interest Read more
Amazon held its shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday in Seattle, and as Lydia DePillis pointed out in her preview report for CNN on Tuesday, there was a lot on the table, for a change. (“For the first time, Amazon faces an Read more
eBay is getting another taste of what it’s like to run a retail shop, sort of! It opened its first “concept store” in the UK on May 10th, it announced today, and it’s set to stay open until June 6th. Read more
Royal Mail is making a change in delivery service to accommodate the demands of ecommerce, specifically what it refers to as the “night owl” shopping phenomenon. It comes as part of a strategic plan in which it will invest £1.8 Read more
