A government agency took an unusual step of getting directly involved in ecommerce matters. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requested the heads of eBay and Amazon do more to prevent the sale of fake set-top boxes on their marketplaces. Read more
eBay sent 20 small businesses who sell on its marketplace to Washington, DC, to lobby their legislators as part of its 13th annual Advocacy Day event. The focus of this year’s “DC Fly-in” event was online sales tax and trade Read more
Amazon is improving package-tracking capabilities, according to Cnet. Buyers have always been able to get detailed tracking through the numbers provided by shipping carriers. But Amazon had provided less transparency for orders shipped through its own delivery system – “Shipped Read more
Amazon announced today it will open its first fulfillment center in Oklahoma. The more than 600,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility will be used to fulfill small items such as books, household items and toys. The center will be located at Will Rogers Read more
The first paragraph of a new report from the National Retail Federation and EuroCommerce is grim: “The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets out changes to almost every area of customer data processing. Retailers with storefronts, websites, mobile apps or Read more
eBay is running several versions of a promotion designed to encourage sellers to list in any format ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Interestingly an invitation forwarded by a reader also encourages sellers to offer 60-day free returns. “Penny Read more
Etsy is holding another sales event, this one in June to celebrate the 13th anniversary of its founding. The new CEO Josh Silverman is clearly a fan of sales and it appears to be a crucial strategy to help him Read more
For ecommerce pros, fine-tuning their marketing provides a method of evening the playing field. But sometimes SMB sellers do a little too much. EcommerceBytes and Privy CEO Ben Jabbawy discussed the perils of potential over-optimization. “Over-optimization can easily lead to Read more
eBay announced it is updating its User Agreement effective June 21, 2018.* One provision eBay pointed out stands out as it clarifies what sellers have been feeling – to paraphrase an early Internet meme, “all your listings are belong to Read more
eBay is announcing the Summer Seller Update today that includes some major changes to eBay Stores and an expansion of its new product based shopping experience (PBSE), which it has begun calling Shop by Product. Sellers will also have to Read more
