eBay sellers woke up to more bad news on Sunday morning when they discovered the latest outage hitting eBay’s global marketplaces. Buyers and sellers were unable to login to their accounts all morning, and many were unable to even access Read more
Amazon is closing its P2P payment service called Amazon WebPay next month. You can be forgiven if you didn’t remember Amazon had a service that allowed people to send, receive, and request money from other users from the Amazon Payments Read more
eBay announced on Thursday its Chief Technology Officer Mark Carges was resigning to focus on a family matter. And while it has not named a replacement, it has hired someone to take over CTO duties for the Marketplaces part of Read more
eBay’s search engine began experiencing technical issues on Thursday. Users are complaining that when they are signed in to eBay, searches bring back zero results. Ironically, it’s the same day eBay announced the resignation of its Chief Technology Officer – Read more
eBay has no qualms about excluding other payment services from its marketplaces, as was the case when Google Checkout launched. But now it finds its own PayPal service shut out from Apple’s new digital wallet announced on Tuesday called Apple Pay. Read more
eBay published an announcement on Wednesday encouraging sellers to enroll in its holiday returns program. Items that offer Extended Holiday Returns will display a message to shoppers in November and December explaining they will have until January 31st to return Read more
Online marketplace Etsy is barring sellers from using the term “Redskins” on its site. The Washington Redskins is an NFL football team in Washington, DC. Some people have protested the team’s name and logo and have advocated for the league Read more
A patent granted in 2007 for an eBay-selling tool is now at the center of two lawsuits filed on September 5, 2014, against eBay and two subsidiaries of Alibaba – Auctiva and Vendio. The United States Patent and Trademark Office Read more
Apple announced a groundbreaking new operating system on Tuesday. iOS 8 will be available starting September 17 to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users as a free software update with new Messages and Photos features and a new Health app. Read more
Even if you’re not Apple-obsessed, there are certain things online sellers should know about Tuesday’s big Apple launch event. Beyond the introduction of the latest iPhone (6 and 6 Plus) and operating system release (iOS 8), and the new Apple Read more
