Amazon expanded its marketplace in Mexico and officially launched Selling on Amazon and Fulfillment by Amazon (Logistica de Amazon) there on Tuesday. Mexican sellers of all sizes can list their merchandise on Amazon.com.mx and reach customers across Mexico and internationally, Read more
Online sellers are benefiting from new services and tools from third-party developers. Here’s a look at some recent developments among vendors and services in the ecommerce industry. Financing for Online Sellers (UPS and Kabbage) UPS is an early investor in Read more
The latest Monetate Ecommerce Quarterly brought disquieting news to the ecommerce industry. Save for the booming 2014 holiday quarter, rates for conversions and adding items to carts have been in decline since the first quarter of 2014, barring Q4. This is taking Read more
Pinterest is working with ecommerce platforms to bring buyable pins to its social networking site, and it will be using customers’ purchase history to serve up targeted ads. As a result, it is updating its Privacy Policy, it told users Read more
Angie’s List sued Amazon Local and its employees this month, accusing them of stealing proprietary information and violating its membership agreement. Both services offer a way for consumers to connect to local businesses and service providers – think plumbers and Read more
PayPal apologized to users over its so-called “robocall” policy on Monday and said it was updating its User Agreement. The provision gave PayPal the right to robocall or robo-text users at for any reason, from debt collecting to advertisements to Read more
Online buyers and sellers are highly suspicious of algorithms that search engines and online marketplaces use to determine the sort order of search results. A new study gives credence to their suspicions, alleging that the king of search, Google, is Read more
eBay is running a free-listing promotion for private (casual) sellers in the UK. The sale is by invitation only, and invited private sellers must actively opt in in order to receive the free listings. “We know you love selling, so Read more
Amazon experienced an outage on Thursday that left sellers unable to complete tasks for well over 3 hours. The only positive aspect of the outage was that it did not appear to impact shoppers’ ability to search or purchase goods. Read more
A marketing campaign designed to get eBay customers re-engaged went terribly wrong recently, and shoppers are underwhelmed by eBay’s attempt to placate them after it reneged on the offer. eBay UK had sent shoppers coupons for 20% off a purchase Read more
