eBay is running a promotion this week that offers sellers the ability to list items for free, but the sale isn’t open to everyone. In addition, those who do receive invitations are required to activate the promotion before they can Read more
Digital marketing firm Kenshoo said advertisers saw fit to spend significantly during the traditional start to the holiday shopping season – Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and of course Cyber Monday. The Product Listing Ad format (PLA) proved impressive on Cyber Monday. Kenshoo found retailers were Read more
Etsy looked into reports of faltering sales in its vintage category but sees nothing to suggest a difference from other categories, a spokesperson told EcommerceBytes. Etsy is best known as a marketplace for handmade goods, but it is also home Read more
Now that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is trying to make a name for himself as a proponent of investigative journalism, some sellers have suggested a campaign to make him aware of practices at the company in which he remains Chairman Read more
After more than two weeks of extensive disruptions, Alibris says that its fulfillment and inventory processes are back in proper working order, and it is scrambling to push out orders that had been delayed and rebuild trust with its network of Read more
Retailers have reached out to potential customers earlier in the year, ahead of the traditional shopping period, spent more on paid search, and competed heavily on price. That price competition, according to analysis from Susquehanna International Group, (SIG) may have been Read more
eBay and PayPal nearly doubled the amount of “mobile enabled commerce volume” (ECV) for the recent 5-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend period, seeing an increase of 96% year-over-year. eBay spokesperson Ryan Moore confirmed the mobile ECV figure took into account eBay Read more
While many companies are racing as fast as possible to go from a stack of business plan documents to a full-fledged ecommerce presence, some firms are content to take their time to get there. In the case of Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Read more
With Black Friday creep, brick-and-mortar stores weren’t the only retailers working on Thanksgiving Day. Endicia, whose online postage service helps online merchants ship their ecommerce orders via the U.S. Postal Service, found shipping volume was up 45% on Thanksgiving Day over Read more
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson took to the company blog to report strong sales over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Sales from Thursday to Cyber Monday increased 60% year-over-year compared to last year’s Thanksgiving weekend. There were more than 36 million visits Read more
