eBay UK is running two nearly identical promotions, both by invitation only. In one promotion, invited sellers can create up to 100 listings using the auction-style or fixed price format and pay no insertion fees. The other promotion is similar Read more
The U.S. Postal Service on Friday reported its eighth consecutive annual loss, appealing to Congress for comprehensive reform legislation ahead of a shakeup in the agency’s leadership. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced his intention to retire on Feb. 1, 2015, Read more
Wal-Mart made headlines when it revealed it was extending its Ad Match Guarantee to include matching prices of online retailers, including Amazon.com – and extending it to include purchases on Walmart.com. But when we asked Wal-Mart if it would honor Amazon third-party Read more
A rumor is circulating that Etsy has instituted a quota system as a band-aid to the problem of “clumping.” Etsy acknowledged the problem with its search engine last month and began testing a fix in late October. Clumping is when a Read more
Amazon unveiled a new fee on Thursday and said it was lifting SKU limits to 2 million active non-media SKUs, effective immediately. For sellers who had to spend the last year with SKU limits of 25,000 or 100,000, raising the Read more
Amazon confirmed it is experiencing delays in receiving FBA shipments from third-party merchants thanks to higher-than-projected shipment volume. Amazon.com spokesperson Erik Fairleigh said the ONT8 fulfillment center, which is located in Moreno Valley, California, is experiencing temporary delays in receiving Read more
You know some of those ads you see on eBay’s website? They used to be served up by Yahoo’s ad platform, and now by Google’s. But after Google punished eBay in search results for “spammy techniques” earlier this year, eBay responded by Read more
Alibaba’s U.S. marketplace 11 Main unveiled new shopping apps for Apple and Android devices. The apps allow mobile shoppers to pay with Apple Pay. Apple’s new payment service is compatible with iPhone 6, iPhone 6+, iPad Air 2, and iPad Read more
The summer debut of Bing’s Auction Insights presented a new reporting feature to help advertisers understand how well (or less well) they were competing with others. That was available as a report showing how one ranked against up to twenty others based Read more
eBay has a firm policy against listing items connected to terrorist groups, but enforcement has been uneven, according to one report. A user told EcommerceBytes that he has reported numerous listings related to groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and ISIS Read more
