Executives who will take over as CEOs after eBay breaks up into two publicly-traded companies next year will be well compensated, according to filings with the SEC. eBay announced the breakup on Tuesday and said current eBay Inc. CEO John Read more
eBay sellers say they are unable to put items on sale using the Markdown Manager feature. “Taking away store sellers’ rights to put their own items on sale is an unacceptable, destructive and short sighted eBay policy,” an irate seller Read more
While Amazon continues to open new warehouses around the globe, it is closing its 915,000-square-foot warehouse near Coffeyville, Kansas. This is the second older fulfillment center slated for closure recently. In August, word came that the company would close its Fernley, Read more
eBay sellers say the company has once again placed them into its Global Shipping Program (GSP). The program is controversial for several reasons – not the least of which is that it is an opt-out rather than opt-in program. A Read more
While many online sellers expect a postage rate increase each year, the cost of mailing a letter will remain the same come January. The USPS will not raise prices in January for Market Dominant products, good news for sellers of Read more
Can a new $10 million fund help create some “killer apps” for online payment service Stripe? One of its investors, venture capital firm General Catalyst, is banking on a larger ecosystem to extend Stripe by launching the GC Stripe Platform Read more
Sometimes you do everything right and you still can’t catch a break. eBay makes sellers who wish to get Top Rated Seller status and the perks that come with it to jump through a number of hoops. But on Wednesday, Read more
With all the attention eBay received this week about its plans to breakup eBay and PayPal, the announcement on Tuesday that it had finally named a replacement to former PayPal president David Marcus may have been overlooked. eBay named Dan Read more
Sellers all over the Internet were scrambling when payments went missing from their PayPal accounts for hours on October 1. And it impacted not just sellers on eBay, but on Etsy, Bonanza, and even people who transferred their money from Read more
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Amazon sent a sweet reminder to sellers informing them that its fulfillment centers are once again accepting “meltable inventory” such as chocolate. Sellers who use Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) can only send Read more
