Mercari recently made headlines by deciding to shift fees from sellers to buyers. On August 1st, it made another significant change, announcing it was making Japanese inventory available to US online shoppers and opening a retail store in Los Angeles. Read more
Mercari told news service Nikkei it has no plans to withdraw from the US market after it confirmed layoffs in the US. Nikkei reported that the Japan-based company laid off nearly half of the employees at its US subsidiary. Mercari’s Read more
Following a new marketplace trend, Etsy’s Depop platform is eliminating selling fees and shifting them to buyers, who will pay up to 5% of the item purchase price plus a fixed amount of up to $1. (It does not affect Read more
Mercari launched a returns policy at the end of March that was so favorable to buyers that one reseller dubbed it a “Rent-A-Center” policy. He, like many sellers, believed buyers would abuse the policy by purchasing an item, using it, Read more
It may be free to sell on Mercari now, but apparently the platform kept in place selling limits, according to a reader who had been a member of the site for 5 years. He told us that after reading the Read more
Mercari is temporarily waiving the fee it imposed last week for withdrawing funds via ACH direct deposit. The new fee was part of a restructuring in which Mercari eliminated selling fees for sellers and shifted them to buyers. But sellers Read more
Mercari shook the world of online selling on Wednesday by announcing that buyers would be responsible for all fees, including payment-processing fees and a buyer service fee. In return for paying fees, buyers can now return items within 72 hours Read more
Mercari introduced a new rate for users of its marketplace app that makes it less expensive to ship lightweight goods via USPS. Anything between 8 – 12 oz used to cost $7.40 when printing shipping labels through Mercari. As of Read more
Mercari is inviting some sellers into its beta test of a new, faster listing tool – all sellers need is a photo and title along with a selling price in order to list an item for sale. The tool is Read more
Mercari is lowering rates for purchasing UPS SurePost labels for orders on its ecommerce platform. Mercari had added UPS SurePost in 2021 as an economy shipping option for items under 5 lbs shipping to and from the lower 48 states. Read more
