The more than 2 million active sellers on Amazon accounted for 44% of paid units sold on the marketplace in the first three months of the year – up about 400 basis points from last year. The company announced first-quarter Read more
Amazon is the first online retailer to offer customers delivery directly into their car trunk. And it’s not stopping there – Amazon has also acquired an “Internet of Things” (IoT) platform called 2lemetry – presumably to tie in with its Read more
Amazon continues to encourage online sellers to explore its Japanese marketplace. An ad on Seller Central shows an image of cherry tree blossoms with the message, “reach millions of customers in Japan.” The landing page hosted on services.amazon.co.jp explains that Read more
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
