EcommerceBytes readers have been saying for years that it’s unfair that Chinese sellers can ship some small packages to US buyers for less than it costs domestic sellers. But after a ruling this week designed to level the playing field, Read more
If you host a lot of photos on Flickr, you need to save them by February 5, 2019 if you don’t have a Pro Flickr paid subscription. As we reported in April, SmugMug acquired Flickr from Yahoo, and now it’s Read more
There’s big money in offering solutions to painful problems, and one major pain for small online sellers is dealing with online sales tax compliance. TaxJar announced today it has closed a $60 million funding round. Calls itself the “fastest growing Read more
What happened to NexTag? We received a news tip from a reader today about the comparison shopping engine: “It looks like Nextag website is offline and has been since Dec. 28th, 2018. I think they went out of business, but Read more
In a letter to employees, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman revealed his priorities for the payments firm formerly owned by eBay. Not surprisingly, mobile was at the top of the list, and Schulman also reminded employees of PayPal’s mission: “democratizing financial Read more
Amazon is tempting merchants to sign up for its Amazon Pay payments solution by dangling an Amazon Echo device before their eyes. An email described the new promotion as follows: “For a limited-time, new Amazon Pay merchants who register for Read more
eBay announced in October it would begin collecting sales tax in 4 states in 2019 due to new laws that extend the tax collection obligation to marketplaces (known as Marketplace Facilitator laws). Note that online marketplace Etsy had already begun Read more
Online sellers could face higher shipping costs as a result of today’s ruling by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), which ruled that the USPS must attribute a greater percentage of its “institutional costs” to Competitive products, which include Priority Mail, Read more
Proxibid acquired cloud-based auction-management software firm Wavebid. Proxibid has been working with Wavebid since the latter’s founding in 2011 and will strengthen their partnership by bringing the Wavebid team and product suite into the Proxibid platform. In an email notifying Read more
In a New Year’s Day podcast, two top eBay executives opened up about some of the problems sellers faced on its marketplace in 2018, including technology glitches, fraudulent returns, and an untenable pricing policy that it backed down from after Read more
