eBay sellers have the option of using eBay’s online-postage label program, and the marketplace alerted sellers to several changes coming to USPS this month, including previously announced postage-rate changes. Highlighting the announcement was news that the USPS would be adding Read more
Marketers spend plenty of time and effort attempting to reach a younger audience, preferably 18 to 34 with plenty of disposable income to drop into the economy. It’s a demographic where sellers hope to establish a foothold and reap the Read more
A pair of cases involving multiple sellers suing over PayPal’s policy of holding funds continue to linger in a California court, the march toward settlement slowed by dubious attorney conduct, mutual assertions of negotiating in bad faith from the litigants, Read more
In November, the U.S. Postal Service launched a Retail Partner Expansion Program pilot with Staples, an office-products chain-store. Under the pilot program, Staples sells postal products and services at select stores in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California and Georgia – including Priority Read more
eBay UK is running a promotion in which business sellers can list up to 50,000 listings and pay no insertion fees. Like many eBay promotions these days, it’s by invitation only. Sale listings are restricted to fixed-price format on eBay.co.uk, Read more
In our last installment of Online Selling Trends, we introduced the members of our panel and asked them about the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead for online sellers in the New Year. Today, they provide some tips on marketing and Read more
A record number of readers participated in this year’s nomination process for the Sellers Choice Awards in which sellers rate the online marketplaces on which they sell. The awards give merchants, who are rated by their customers every day, a Read more
eBay is encouraging sellers to list high-value items in what is yet another promotion kicking off in January. This promotion is limited to Store subscribers who are often excluded from sales. The promotion lowers the $250 cap on commission fees: Read more
eBay is running a promotion in which sellers can list up to ten auction or fixed-price listings and pay no insertion fees and pay no final value fees. eBay rarely includes final value fees as part of its promotions, making this a Read more
The National Retailer Federation (NRF) announced holiday sales figures (including both traditional retailers and ecommerce merchants) and also reported on annual sales growth of some key categories released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week that may hold some surprise at first Read more
