Facebook came in 11th place in the 2019 Sellers Choice Awards. Buy-sell groups in niche categories were preferred by many over Marketplace; some sellers panned Facebook for its enforcement practices. In January 2019, EcommerceBytes surveyed over 13,000 online sellers and Read more
Amazon is hosting six seller summits to be held in four cities this year. The Amazon Selling Partner Summit (“Build your business on Amazon”) are 2-day events that cover topics near and dear to sellers’ hearts. Account Health and Featured Read more
The US Postal Service saw a 2.9% increase in revenue in the first fiscal quarter of 2019, year-over-year, to $19.7 billion. The USPS had a net loss of $1.5 billion for the quarter, however. Shipping and Packages revenue increased by Read more
Etsy is continuing to work on fixing and improving its newly revamped forums and groups (called Teams). The boards were down for nearly two weeks last month as it switched platforms, and Etsy provided an update this week on issues Read more
eBay expanded its Retail Revival initiative to Greensboro, North Carolina, the fifth city in the program and the third in the US. eBay helps local retailers in the program sell on its marketplace, providing them with customized training, one-on-one coaching, Read more
The USPS is getting one step closer to making small packets from overseas more expensive, something for which many small sellers in the US have advocated. The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) will host a conference next week on the topic Read more
eBay announced that sellers in the UK must upload tracking information for orders in which they have used a tracking service – before the estimated delivery date has passed. Sending the tracking number to the buyer via email won’t protect Read more
Much of the compensation executives receive come in the form of stock options, and it’s routine for them to cash out periodically. But since all eyes are on eBay due to activist investor Elliott Management pressuring the Board, we took Read more
eBay issued a reminder to sellers on Friday about the need to streamline their returns policies, though it’s not clear why it felt the need to remind sellers 9 months after the policy took effect. eBay instituted “streamlined” return policies Read more
eBay is putting Turbo Lister out of its misery in the UK this month, but it will leave it on life support in the US. An eBay moderator was forced to once again address sellers’ questions about the listing tool. Read more
