After Amazon severely restricted the types of items sellers could send to FBA fulfillment centers due to the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon is now advising sellers to check their Seller Central dashboard as it lifts some restrictions on an item-by-item basis. Read more
The US Postal Service has created a COVID-19 Response Command headed by Chief Information Officer Kristin Seaver. The USPS is on the front lines of the coronavirus response as it helps deliver mail and packages to people, many of whom Read more
Amazon is giving some relief to sellers who participate in the Amazon Lending program. The company announced on Wednesday it is pausing payments interest-free through April. As we reported last week, sellers were growing concerned about how they would make Read more
eBay UK is restricting consumer sellers from listing certain goods that are in high demand due to the coronavirus outbreak. It had already prohibited all sellers from listing face masks, hand sanitizers, and cleaning wipes. In an announcement on Tuesday, Read more
Amazon FBA is waiving long-term storage fees for inventory for which it has received removal orders, it announced Tuesday, another sign its fulfillment centers are stressed from coronavirus demand. Amazon explained it was waiving the fees because it had “temporarily Read more
eBay is asking sellers to contact members of Congress to ask them to consider aid to small sellers as they work on a relief package to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. Online marketplace Etsy also asked its sellers to do Read more
eBay is giving Store subscribers an extra 50,000 free fixed-price listings through the end of April. In Monday’s announcement, eBay also recapped some of the other protections provided to sellers as a result of the coronavirus outbreak; updated sellers on Read more
eBay sent a letter to affiliates about its response to the coronavirus outbreak. It focused on information about what the company was doing to crack down on price gouging (which it called predatory selling). The eBay Partner Network sent the Read more
Etsy is asking sellers to reach out to their members of Congress and ask them to include measures to help self-employed people in the COVID-19 relief package they are trying to pass. The request comes after Etsy CEO Josh Silverman Read more
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos published a letter to employees on Saturday in which he revealed the company had placed orders for millions of face masks for employees who cannot work from home and who are providing a vital Read more
