Recent eBay category changes had many sellers of collectible postcards scrambling when they rolled out on October 12. Sellers said eBay rolled up the subcategories and left them to select one of two: Topographical Postcards and non-Topographical Postcards. Instead of Read more
As eBay promotes Cost-per-Click ads during the holiday rush, it is also adding new features to the format that it announced and August and made available to all business sellers in September. Unlike standard eBay Promoted Listings, which only incur Read more
eBay published a list of its most-wanted products this holiday season. Not coincidentally, the eBay hottest products list comes from a few select categories that eBay has spent the last 12 months investing in and promoting. eBay executive Jordan Sweetnam Read more
Five weeks ahead of Christmas, eBay said holiday shipping is on track. “We’ve seen strong on-time delivery performance from both USPS and UPS,” eBay’s shipping team wrote in a post on the Seller Announcement board on Friday. It said FedEx’s Read more
This year’s eBay holiday marketing includes three real-life popup stores in Detroit, Houston, and Miami. With the number of buyers in decline and holiday shopping in full force, eBay is doubling down on its strategy of focusing on high-value items Read more
eBay is flush with cash this week. It sold an 80% share of its eBay Korean unit for $3 billion on Sunday, and today it announced it sold over 134 million shares in Adevinta ASA for €2.05 billion, which is Read more
Etsy appointed Marla Blow to its Board of Directors. Blow is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Skoll Foundation, which was founded in 1999 by eBay’s first President, Jeff Skoll. An excerpt from the Skoll Foundation explains its Read more
eBay completed the sale of 80% of its eBay Korea unit to Emart for approximately $3 billion. eBay will retain a 19.99% interest in the Korean businesses, including G-Market, IAC and G-9. After caving to pressure from activist investors in Read more
Citing this year’s supply chain headaches and changing consumer behaviors, eBay says its new portal called eBay Refurbished is the answer for shoppers looking for hard-to-find goods. eBay said the portal builds on last year’s Certified Refurbished program and now Read more
When eBay decided to take over payment-processing from PayPal, the latter made the best of the rejection by claiming it would become free to expand its payment services on other platforms. On Monday, PayPal was vindicated with the news that Read more
