The appeal of the Etsy marketplace has been its position as a home for sellers of handmade and vintage items. To the layman, this presents an image of a crafter working on a piece of jewelry or a woven basket Read more
eBay is running an unusual promotion in which sellers can automatically relist items up to three times and pay no extra insertion fees. However, the promotion is by invitation, so only those sellers who are invited by eBay via email Read more
eBay is running a holiday marketing campaign that is limited to certain sellers, and it is using its new “Collections” feature as part of the promotion, called the “Wrapped & Ready Gift Event.” eBay sent an email to shoppers encouraging Read more
eBay’s Vice President in charge of developing and launching the marketplace’s new Cassini search engine left the company last month before launching its full functionality. An article published in EcommerceBytes Update over the weekend broke the news of Hugh Williams’ Read more
Holiday shoppers spent $1.4 billion online from their desktops on Green Monday (December 9th), up 10 percent versus year ago. It represented the third heaviest online spending day of the holiday season-to-date. ComScore chairman Gian Fulgoni noted that the 10-percent Read more
The honeymoon period for Amazon Webstore is over – Amazon is significantly raising the cost of operating a Webstore next year, perhaps a sign that the company is more confident of the offering. The monthly fee will double for all Read more
Remember when eBay would run free listing days every December 26th so that there would be enough inventory on the site in the weeks following Christmas into January? Those days are over and have, for the most part, been replaced Read more
Amazon is breaking the rules on conventional thinking about how you should engage shoppers on social networking sites, but it is driving far more sales from social networks than other merchants, according to Internet Retailer. The publication took a look at Read more
Many ecommerce pros have turned to free shipping as an enticement to customers to shop online. That perk has become popular with shoppers and at this point in time it’s practically expected by them. For online sellers, taking best advantage Read more
eBay is holding a sweepstakes to increase user engagement by offering rewards for sharing its new Pinterest-style “collections.” The eBay “Share It. Win It Sweepstakes” gives users a chance to win weekly $1,000 prizes as well as a $25,000 grand Read more
