eBay is running a 5-day listing promotion to encourage sellers to list fresh inventory in long-duration, fixed-price format. eBay enticed sellers with the promise, “More buyers will see your inventory with 30-day fixed price or Good ’til Cancelled listings.” However, Read more
Barnes & Noble relaunched its website in late June, but with one important thing missing: its marketplace. Third-party sellers have been kept in the dark, unable to log in to their selling accounts for over a week. Barnes & Noble Read more
An appeals court overturned a ruling that had let Amazon off the hook in a trademark-infringement case, and now it will be up to a jury to decide if Amazon confuses shoppers at the expense of a brand. A three-judge Read more
A new report shows Wall Street continues to buy what eBay is selling when it comes to the marketplaces business, even as the parent organzation splinters. A report from Citi Research approves of the new eBay Marketplace management strategy of Read more
The Yelp business model connects customers to businesses with a rich feature set and a loaded phone app. But love from its users hasn’t translated into similar affection from Wall Street. Consecutive quarters of disappointing financials have business types wondering Read more
Note: This story has been edited to clear up confusion between different NLRB cases. Whether you find postal counters at retail chain stores to be convenient or ill-conceived, it’s not a sure thing they will continue. The National Labor Relations Read more
Bonanza is once again on a roll with new enhancements to its site, and the latest is a revamped account page, called the My Bonanza page. The marketplace explained that since the needs of buyers and sellers are different, it Read more
Don’t want to wait until Black Friday in November to get shopping deals? You’re in luck – Amazon has made up a brand new shopping holiday to be held this month. Amazon declared July 15th “Prime Day,” and it’s vowing Read more
After we reported last week that eBay had resumed hiding product descriptions in sellers’ listings as part of testing it had initiated in February, eBay confirmed it had resumed testing – and explained the reasoning behind a move that to Read more
Pinterest, the social networking site that lets users post images found around the Internet on shareable bulletin boards on its website, entered into the ecommerce space last week when it finally began rolling out “Buyable Pins.” The new pins generated Read more
