Have you ever wished you could give your eBay buyers an incentive for buying your item or spending more with you? If you operate an eBay Store (for which the company charges a monthly subscription fee), now you can. As Read more
No one knows for sure just how eBay’s security breach is impacting overall sales except for the company itself, but sellers worry about how the hack will impact them. Last week, IDG News Service was among those reporting on vulnerabilities that security Read more
Over a week has gone by since eBay revealedcriminals had gained unauthorized access to its corporate network and user data, and the fallout continues. A few states vowed to launch an investigation of their own, and there are reports of other Read more
Consider for a moment Amazon.com’s roots, a seller of books at discounted prices that delighted bibliophiles and altered the bookselling industry. Now nearly twenty years after its founding, the company’s ongoing dispute with French publisher Hachetteovershadows what should be an interesting Read more
After many sellers complained about a test Etsy is running in which a percentage of buyers are unable to view shipping costs without placing an item in their shopping cart, other sellers defended Etsy’s practice of testing new layouts and Read more
Online payment service Square has launched Square Capital, a program that provides merchants with financing. Square Capital “eases the complicated process of getting capital to growing businesses,” the company said. Kabbage kicked off the trend of bringing working capital advances Read more
New features coming to Google Analytics users should give ecommerce pros more insights into what make their customers tick in terms of buying, and not buying, something from a website. Google disclosed the forthcoming beta test of these features during Read more
Collectors can now turn to Amazon.com to buy collectible coins with the launch of a new collectibles store on Wednesday. Featured on the Amazon Collectible Coins Store homepage are coins ranging from an 1882 Morgan dollar listed for $105 to an 1893 Read more
After Etsy stirred controversy last week by initiating a test in which it hid shipping costs from some shoppers, sellers say the marketplace is at it again, with multiple threads popping up on Tuesday evening complaining about layout changes to sellers’ shops. Read more
eBay users were disappointed when they visited the Toolhaus.org website on Monday and saw a message saying the site was experiencing extreme difficulties. “How extreme? Extreme enough that we may not be back. We’re no happier about this than you are.” The Read more
