Amazon will pass Macy’s as the number-one US apparel retailer in 2017, and it will become the number-two US consumables retailer by 2018. Those are the bold predictions published in a new report by Wall Street firm Cowen and Company. Read more
Did you know that purchases in Europe come with a 2-year guarantee? That’s a rule of the European Union, and now it wants to tighten up that policy even more. Europe is made up of many countries, but thanks to the Read more
Online shoppers made history this year by spending a billion dollars a day from desktop computers for nine consecutive days beginning on Thanksgiving Day, the longest streak of billion-dollar days ever, according to comScore. This past Monday was Green Monday, one Read more
PayPal will run its first Super Bowl commercial during the February 7, 2016, football game’s first quarter. PayPal’s Vice President of Global Brand Marketing Greg Fisher made the announcement on Tuesday. Super Bowl ads are traditionally kept secret until they Read more
What sets PayPal apart from other online payment methods is its peer-payment feature, as well as its stored-value capability, but Google Wallet has now introduced a way for its users to send payments to anyone using just the recipient’s phone Read more
eBay is adjusting the way it displays delivery estimates in the listings of its UK sellers to account for the policies of independent shipping couriers in the run-up to Christmas. eBay UK also said it would monitor service levels as Read more
Many online merchants take advantage of secondary markets where they can acquire overstock, returned, or refurbished inventory to sell on marketplaces like eBay and Amazon. But the recent hoverboard scare raises important issues about product safety and seller liability. As we reported Read more
On Monday, a reader reported that eBay had edited one of his listings “to avoid its removal” for Brand Name Misuse (in effect, “keyword spamming,” as eBay calls it.) Editing a seller’s description has been unheard of up until now. Read more
If UPS has its way, it could cost more to ship a package through the U.S. Postal Service. The shipping giant is petitioning federal regulators to force the Postal Service to adjust the way it calculates its costs, arguing that Read more
There are signs that shipping carriers are struggling to keep up with the spike in orders from online shoppers, which could spell bad news, particularly for marketplace sellers such as those on eBay and Amazon who earn defects if customers Read more
