Etsy has decided to abandon a feature it had been testing that was designed to help shoppers browsing the site. In late June, Etsy notified members of a new “Recommended categories” section on the Etsy homepage on both the desktop Read more
If you aren’t attending the eBay OPEN event for sellers in Las Vegas this week, you can still catch some of the sessions. eBay will be more than “webcasting” parts of the event – it’s making it a “virtual” conference. Read more
Who doesn’t want to get discounted postage rates, but the issue of USPS reseller discounts is getting some attention from Wall Street in recent weeks. Accusations are flying that Stamps.com is abusing reseller discounts, but those allegations are coming from Read more
eBay experienced a bug on Wednesday that was driving users crazy as they continually encountered a popup box that included the words “object Object” in brackets. On this eBay discussion board thread, a user shared a picture of the popup. “It’s Read more
Seventeen years after disrupting the payments industry, upstart PayPal has struck a deal with Visa, founded in the 1950s. The arrangement is designed to carry significant benefits for issuing financial institutions, acquirers, and merchants, according to the announcement. PayPal will Read more
Shoppers trying to pay with PayPal on Thursday experienced problems that were reported on various industry boards, social media sites, and on the Ecommerce EKG board. Sellers said they could not login to PayPal, receiving “session timed out” error messages, and Read more
eBay CEO Devin Wenig is now clear about eBay’s brand, he told Wall Street analysts on Wednesday, stating, “we deliver a compelling value proposition to help every person get their version of perfect, no matter what it is.” Explaining that Read more
Etsy’s reputation is taking a bruising due to a payments processing technical disaster that is being blamed on its third-party partner Worldpay. Etsy sellers are concerned that their reputations are also being harmed as customers have experienced myriad problems that Read more
eBay sellers say they are unable to respond to feedback left by their buyers. A report on Ecommerce EKG prompted us to investigate, and we discovered this problem has been ongoing since at least December. On Wednesday, a seller reported, Read more
eBay grew Marketplaces GMV 5% on an FX-neutral basis to $19.8 billion in the second quarter of 2016 (April, May, and June), while Marketplaces revenue grew 3%. Adding in StubHub ($1.1 billion in GMV), eBay’s total GMV for the quarter Read more
