Ecommerce Industry News
eBay expanded its Retail Revival program to Yaroslavl, Russia, it announced on Friday. eBay is helping small businesses in the city learn to export through a program called Export Revival. eBay, PayPal, and the Russian […]
eBay said Friday it was working to comply with new sales tax laws popping up around the country. Although it said Congress was working on a bill, eBay was not hopeful of passage of federal […]
eBay CEO Devin Wenig wrote his annual letter to shareholders today. We break it down in the EcommerceBytes Blog, and the fulltext of the letter follows: To Our Stockholders,The past year has brought remarkable challenges […]
eBay is promoting certain sellers through a collaboration with Record Store Day, which is a coalition of independent brick-and-mortar record-store owners. In today’s announcement, eBay wrote, “Shop independent brick-and-mortar stores through Record Store Day’s Authorized […]
eBay launched a “Spring Black Friday” shopping event, but of course it’s limited to its eBay Deals site, since it has no way for third-party sellers to participate outside of the eBay Deals platform. Just […]
eBay acquired comparison-shopping engine Shopping.com in 2005 for over $620 million and built an ad platform around it called eBay Commerce Network (ECN). eBay is now shutting down the ad network and is parking Shopping.com […]
eBay Canada expanded its Promoted Listings ads – now all Canadian sellers in good standing can participate in the paid-ad program. Previously sellers had to be Top Rated or be a Store subscriber in order […]
eBay launched a feature that enhances visual shopping capabilities on its mobile app. Jonathan Chard, Lead Product Manager of Mobile Experience at eBay, explained the feature in a post, “eBay Makes Visual Shopping More Intuitive […]
eBay and Amazon see opportunity in rural America and are calling for better resources to “unlock the digital potential” of rural sellers. There are 37 million working-age adults in the rural US who account for […]
Buyers who are exempt from paying state sales tax can now purchase items on eBay without being incorrectly charged tax. Word of this development comes not from an eBay announcement, but from a reader who […]