Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes Blog
News and insight focusing on ecommerce.
by Ina Steiner, Editor of EcommerceBytes.com
Tuesday October 31, 2017
Amazon Gives Toy Sellers a Fright on Halloween
Amazon gave some sellers a scare on Halloween morning, sending them a notice that their accounts d ...

Monday October 30, 2017
eBay Runs Promo to Get Low Priced Goods for Holidays
eBay is running a promotion giving sellers a 25% discount on Final Value Fees for qualifying ite ...

Sunday October 29, 2017
Not the Regular eBay Sales Slump?
If you search the eBay forums for reports of a sales slump, it seems you'll always find threads wh ...

Thursday October 26, 2017
eBay Sellers Locked Out This Morning
eBay users are having major problems this morning, and sellers are reporting they're locked out ...

Wednesday October 25, 2017
eBay Back to Running Ads that Take Shoppers Off eBay
In February, eBay announced it would remove third-party Product Listing Ads in May (it planned to ...

Monday October 23, 2017
eBay Confuses Buyers with a New Way to Contact Sellers
There's a lot of confusion about how to ask an eBay seller a question thanks to two changes eBay ...

Sunday October 22, 2017
eBay Dumbs Down Its Site for Casual Sellers
eBay is creating a "for dummies" like experience in the hopes that new and occasional sellers wi ...

Thursday October 19, 2017
eBay CEO Devin Wenig Talks to Analyst in Q3 Call
eBay showed signs of growth in July, August, and September after quarters of tepid performance. An ...

Tuesday October 17, 2017
eBay Exec Brian Burke Answers Seller Questions
eBay Seller Evangelist Brian Burke went into the eBay discussion boards this afternoon to answer q ...

Monday October 16, 2017
eBay Adds Major Feature to Auctions in Error
A week after sellers erupted upon learning eBay had  added the Make an Offer feature   ...

Friday October 13, 2017
eBay Sorry for Testing Haggling But Will Continue
On Tuesday we reported that eBay was adding Make an Offer "haggling" to sellers' auction listing ...

Tuesday October 10, 2017
Is eBay Trying to Kill Auctions with Make Offer?
eBay has perplexed users by adding a Make an Offer haggling feature to auctions. The unannounced c ...

Tuesday October 10, 2017
eBay Payment Requirement Hurts Its Bottom Line
eBay seems to desperately want to do away with the quirkiness of is site, but when it tries to p ...

Monday October 9, 2017
eBay Just Put All Collectibles on Sale by Mistake
eBay is running a "collectibles event" coinciding with the New York Comic Con and is running ...

Friday October 6, 2017
The Case of the Vanishing eBay Promotion
eBay kicked off a listing promotion on Wednesday that was supposed to run through October 12th, ...

Thursday October 5, 2017
Some Say New eBay Search Feature 'Needs Changing'
An eBay seller noticed a new feature on search results pages that they aren't too pleased about: a ...

Amazon Wants Access to Your Warehouse?
Airbnb for Online Sellers? What if Amazon used excess capacity in the warehouse of their merchants ...

Wednesday October 4, 2017
eBay Penalizes Seller for Helping a Shopper
Would you rather shop at a store where you receive assistance or where the clerks are unhelpful an ...

Monday October 2, 2017
Rethinking Returns in Wake of $1.2 Million Amazon Fraud
Amazon and eBay may wish to rethink their requirements around seller return policies in ligh ...