It seems one retailer after another finds itself the victim of a data breach due to a hacking incident, and on Monday came the bad news that the U.S. Postal Service had been hacked. For online merchants, the news could Read more
A seller wrote today to say eBay has raised its caps on shipping costs in the media categories. “Listing today and I just noticed that the flat shipping allowed in the magazines and books is showing up as $6 (it Read more
eBay is running a seller promotion in the UK that kicked off on Sunday. However, there are a lot of restrictions to pay attention to – the first being, only sellers who are invited may participate. The promotion is also Read more
Thanks to a report on Ecommerce EKG, we’ve identified a technical problem impacting eBay listings. On Thursday, sellers began noticing that descriptions were missing on some of their eBay listings. It’s a serious issue, since a listing lacking a description Read more
eBay sellers were not happy to learn that the shopping site was placing ads on their shipping labels. The ad appears at the bottom of the label underneath the USPS Tracking number and states, “Happening now on eBay deals. Always Read more
eBay is running a promotion to try and get fresh auctions onto its site. For 11 days, invited sellers can list auctions and pay no insertion fee. But in an unusual move, it is excluding relistings, clearly a bid to Read more
Sellers of all sizes face a similar issue this holiday season that they did in 2013 – a late-falling Thanksgiving means a later Black Friday / Cyber Monday taking place, and fewer holiday shopping days overall. For online merchants managing Read more
China celebrates its largest ecommerce holiday, the 11.11. Shopping Festival, on Tuesday, but the company behind it hopes the annual shopping extravaganza will become a true global shopping event in five to 10 years. Alibaba launched Singles Day, as it’s Read more
The U.S. Postal Service will deliver packages seven days a week in major cities and high-volume areas starting November 17 and running through Christmas Day. From an operations standpoint, keeping packages moving on those 5 Sundays before Christmas likely makes Read more
PayPal’s Braintree unit is launching a new instant sign-up flow for online merchants based in Europe. Braintree is targeted at developers, enabling web and mobile payments. It also offers a mobile application called Venmo that gives people an easy way Read more
