Amazon launched its Black Friday Store in early November offering “tens of thousands of deals, and on Friday, it kicked off Eight Days of Holiday Deals, with new deals added as often as every five minutes for 8 straight days on the Black Read more
A new report provides some insight into Amazon’s 2015 holiday tactics. “One key trend this season is an unprecedented level of price dynamism on best-selling items, with some products repriced far more than others,” according to the report from 360pi. Read more
Almost overnight, Amazon has been getting flooded with thousands of counterfeit items posted by stores based in China, a seller is alleging. Jerry Kozak, owner of the Ann Arbor T-shirt Company, has been struggling to make his case to Amazon and Read more
The stated Amazon returns policy says, “You may return most new, unopened items sold and fulfilled by Amazon.com within 30 days of delivery for a full refund.” It’s a reasonably consumer-friendly and efficient policy that many shoppers, including this writer, have used Read more
Amazon sellers noticed new performance metrics in their dashboards that showed up with no warning or explanation, which you can read about in a post on Saturday’s EcommerceBytes Blog. The “Negative Return Feedback Rate” was particularly upsetting to readers, as we Read more
The eight-year-old Twitch.tv has been a vibrant focal point primarily for video gamers who use it to share their gameplay with anyone who wants to watch. Twitch claims to have millions of broadcasters using the service, with the most popular ones earning Read more
Online retailers are getting into the holiday spirit, and many are using “Black Friday” as a much broader term than originally conceived by their brick-and-mortar brethren. Case in point: Amazon, which just launched a Black Friday Deals store that offers deals now Read more
Amazon is mulling its own brand of clothing, and it’s getting into TV commerce, possibly with its own shopping channel. Geekwire noted in a post on Thursday that people who use the Amazon Fire TV Stick remote can make purchases Read more
Product reviews provide invaluable word of mouth recommendations that can make or break sales of items. Sellers like Amazon.com have long placed importance on these reviews, and the company recently stepped up its efforts to combat the phony ones that Read more
A new report shows how much Amazon relies on third-party merchants for selection and for growth. RW Baird’s 11th quarterly “Amazon Selection Survey” covered the company’s third-quarter. It estimates that overall, there are 391 million items listed for sale on Read more
