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eBay Gets Bad Press over Fee Avoidance Policy
Two major newspapers wrote about eBay's policy of charging sellers commission fees even when the ...
Saturday July 28, 2018
Spammers Hit the eBay Forums Friday Night
Spammers hit the eBay forums overnight, linking to off-eBay websites purportedly selling healt ...
Thursday July 26, 2018
Amazon Success with Subscriptions Impacts Unit Growth
Amazon revealed a trend that could have an impact on some third-party sellers both on and off ...
Sunday July 22, 2018
eBay Asks Users to Pitch In and Help on Discussion Boards
eBay is asking users to pitch in on the discussion boards to help people with questions by launchi ...
Friday July 20, 2018
Etsy Treats Vintage Differently on Navigation Menu
An Etsy seller wrote to us today sharing concerns that the marketplace appears to be putting selle ...
Thursday July 19, 2018
eBay Turns to Sellers for Help with Catalog
eBay asked sellers for help in building a product catalog on Wednesday as it transitions to a Pr ...
Wednesday July 18, 2018
Sellers Buzzing about Amazon Suspension of Family Business
Online sellers are buzzing about Amazon's treatment of Cheapskates Liquidators in thi ...
Tuesday July 17, 2018
eBay Proceeds More Carefully with Move to Catalog
eBay is asking sellers to help it test functionality for creating and editing product informat ...
Friday July 13, 2018
How Is the eBay Mobile App Today?
eBay Chief Product Architect Steve Yankovich took a stroll down memory lane this week ...
Wednesday July 11, 2018
eBay Reveals Impact of World Cup Games on Shopping
Last month we touched on the impact of World Cup games on Amazon sales, and that m ...
Friday July 6, 2018
Sellers Ask If Trade Tariffs Will Impact eBay and Amazon
The US imposed tariffs against China on Friday, which retaliated with tariffs of its own. ...
Tuesday July 3, 2018
A New Twist on eBay Sales Restrictions
Update 7/4/2018 : eBay posted the following announcement today: Markdown Man ...
Monday July 2, 2018
New Etsy Support Tools to Include Premium Phone Support
Etsy sent an email to some sellers with the subject line, "Get an exclusive preview of the new Ets ...