Ecommerce Industry News
eBay acknowledged yesterday that a policy it implemented 2 years ago was not so great after all and said it would stop hiding shipping options from buyers. “We listened to your feedback,” it wrote in […]
eBay announced on Thursday it is delaying the implementation of some policy changes it had announced in this year’s Spring Seller Update. The policies were scheduled to take effect on June 1, but eBay announced […]
eBay announced a crackdown in the UK on sellers who “misrepresent” their items’ location. The Item Location Misrepresentation policy states in part: “Buyers should have complete information about an item’s location so that they can […]
eBay announced that sellers in the UK must upload tracking information for orders in which they have used a tracking service – before the estimated delivery date has passed. Sending the tracking number to the […]
For a decade or more, eBay tolerated a selling practice known as “Amazon drop-shipping” that left some buyers confused or upset when their orders arrived in Amazon boxes. In 2017, eBay even told sellers it […]
In a New Year’s Day podcast, two top eBay executives opened up about some of the problems sellers faced on its marketplace in 2018, including technology glitches, fraudulent returns, and an untenable pricing policy that […]
eBay is cracking down on Medicine and Healthcare products in the UK. Business sellers in the UK are required to register with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and must display the EU […]
eBay told sellers it will turn off the tool that helps them determine if their listings are compliant with its browser security requirements. eBay cuts off descriptions in listings that are not compliant with its […]
eBay made it official a day after news leaked out it was rethinking its position on banning listings that contained watermarked images. Watermarks are generally used by sellers to guard against image-theft, which is quite […]
eBay, Etsy, and other companies are backing an initiative by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to try to stop the trade in illegal wildlife and their products, which it says has reached crisis proportions. Marketplace […]