Amazon is opening up its sweepstakes program to FBA inventory, but it seems likely that most sellers who use Fulfillment By Amazon will benefit only if they use the program themselves. The company launched its Amazon Giveaway program a year ago to Read more
Five weeks after the USPS instituted new rates for shipping services, Amazon raised the rates its sellers pay when printing Priority Mail shipping labels on its marketplace. The move, which came with no warning, impacts merchant-fulfilled items, since sellers don’t Read more
Amazon sees opportunity in agricultural goods, and last week, it attended the 2016 World Ag Expo, to talk to farmers face to face, according to the Visalia Times-Delta newspaper. Amazon’s lawn and garden category manager John Reiser attended the event Read more
Nothing draws the ire of some US sellers more than the fact that it’s cheaper for Chinese companies to ship certain products to the US than they can thanks to USPS ePacket rates. But what may be far more worrying Read more
Amazon is frequently blamed for reducing tax revenue in states where it doesn’t collect online sales tax, but a new report points to another way the company could be hurting state and local government coffers: lost property taxes. An organization Read more
An Amazon customer says the company’s customer service reps divulged his information to a hacker who was able to use that data to trick his bank into issuing a new copy of his credit card. Tech publications are running wild Read more
A few months before eBay split with PayPal, former CEO John Donahoe implied Amazon might be interested in offering PayPal on its marketplace. But 6 months after the eBay-PayPal breakup, Amazon quashed the idea. Amazon Executive Patrick Gauthier told Cneton Monday, Read more
The machines and appliances in our homes and at our jobs will soon be doing some of the online shopping for us, and Amazon is at the forefront of the movement to take the drudgery out of replenishing frequently-ordered supplies. Read more
While online sellers are dealing with the impact of Sunday’s USPS rate hike, here’s some lighter news with regard to shipping and delivery, including news about a former eBay executive. Amazon Opens up About Delivery Drones Yahoo Tech’s David Pogue Read more
Amazon told sellers on Monday it had negotiated a deal with the USPS so they will see no rate change on the cost of Priority Mail shipping, which will remain at 2015 rates. The deal is unprecedented, since Priority Mail rates Read more
