Remember the recent blog post, “Kohl’s Bans eBay and Amazon Sellers,” about sellers who buy items from chainstores to resell online, a practice some called retail arbitrage, and how some of those stores were starting to ban resellers? The Wall Street Journal turned Read more
The US Justice Department’s Antitrust division lauded the result of its ecommerce investigation into price fixing on Amazon Marketplace. The agency alleges that online seller David Topkins and other co-conspirators fixed pricing on certain posters sold through the Marketplace over Read more
eBay sellers have been moving more of their business to Amazon for a long time, as EcommerceBytes reader surveys bear out, so it was with interest we read Bloomberg’s report that seemed to state it was a recent trend. “Amazon’s Read more
Have you ever run out of coffee pods for your Keurig coffee machine? That’s the dilemma of a woman in desperate need of a caffeine fix who is featured in a new video from Amazon, which suggests a solution: the Read more
In a rare display of introspection, Amazon is taking a look at how it treats sellers. The company is surveying marketplace sellers about how it removes seller privileges, such as listing takedowns and account suspensions. Amazon presented eleven statements, and Read more
The FAA will allow Amazon to test its drones, the agency revealed on Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration issued an “experimental airworthiness certificate” to an Amazon Logistics, Inc. unmanned aircraft (UAS) design that the company will use for research and Read more
After Amazon sellers struggled to understand why the marketplace suspended their accounts over shipping dates in this discussion board thread, a spokesperson provided EcommerceBytes with some clarification. A reader pointed us to the thread on the Amazon boards and asked, “Have Read more
When Amazon first made public its plans to use drones for package delivery, the company said that the project would be on hold until federal regulators write rules for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft. Now that they have, Amazon has Read more
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a proposed framework of regulations around the use of drones, aka unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), taking ecommerce drone deliveries from Amazon or UPS a step closer to reality. In its story Sunday about Read more
Amazon reminded its third-party merchants of the “holiday halo” effect, explaining that while sales may slow after the holidays, that January can be a strong revenue month – and it reminded sellers to be sure to replenish their inventory. There Read more
