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EcommerceBytes Blog
News and insight focusing on ecommerce. by Ina Steiner, Editor of EcommerceBytes.com |
Should Amazon and eBay Pressure Sellers on Pricing?
Price gouging, or supply-and-demand? However you look at it, eBay and Amazon take very different ap ...
Sunday November 29, 2015
Outage Hits PayPal Again Impacting eBay and Merchants
The PayPal service is down, with users unable to login on Sunday morning and unable to make pu ...
Wednesday November 25, 2015
Flurry of Technical Issues Hits eBay Day before Thanksgiving
eBay shipping is down, sellers can't relist items, and some people can't even log in. Seller ...
Tuesday November 24, 2015
Amazon Does Direct-to-Customer Deliveries in Metro Boston
Amazon is doing something that should have shipping carriers nervous: it's delivering its own packa ...
Monday November 23, 2015
eBay Surveys Sellers on New Late-Shipment Rate
Do you understand eBay's new Late Shipment metric that was announced as part of the 2015 Fall ...
Saturday November 21, 2015
eBay CEO Gets Propositioned
Earlier this month, eBay CEO Devin Wenig received a proposition from an eBay user. He was asked to ...
Are You Seeing Changes in Holiday Shopping Behavior?
In reviewing the growing amounts of research into holiday shopping 2015, we're coming across som ...
Thursday November 19, 2015
Be Aware of PayPal Debit Card Issues When Shopping Today
PayPal is having technical issues with its debit card and possibly its website as well, which is ...
Wednesday November 18, 2015
Amazon Sellers Deal with Copycats and Allege Unfair Practices
Selling on Amazon is becoming a minefield, sellers are reporting to EcommerceBytes and on industry ...
Monday November 16, 2015
Carl Icahn Dumps eBay in Favor of PayPal
The investor who pressured eBay into spinning off PayPal has dumped his holdings in the now standa ...
Saturday November 14, 2015
eBay Suffers Extended Outage
eBay is suffering a major outage Saturday morning that is preventing buyers and seller ...
Friday November 13, 2015
Can eBay Technology Withstand Another Twist to Search?
eBay CEO Devin Wenig said Tuesday eBay is experimenting with adding local services to its marketpla ...
Wednesday November 11, 2015
Egregious Incidents of Package Delivery Mayhem
Recent news reports show why your package may not arrive (or may not arrive safely ) into the hand ...
Tuesday November 10, 2015
The Anti-eBay Sales Tax Bill?
Does it make sense that an online merchant who makes sales of $10 million should be exempt from col ...
Monday November 9, 2015
Etsy Advises Sellers to Use Its Health Insurance Broker
Etsy sent an email to sellers encouraging them to use a health insurance broker called Stride Healt ...
Saturday November 7, 2015
Has Amazon Found a New Way to Torture Sellers?
Amazon has found a new way to torture sellers, at least that's how it feels to some merchants who ...
Thursday November 5, 2015
How Are You Doing Under eBay's New Seller Standards?
As we announced in September , eBay is making major changes to the way it judges a seller's p ...
Wednesday November 4, 2015
Etsy Adds Seller Performance Factors to Search Algorithm
Etsy is changing its search algorithm by adding new factors that will affect the ranking of listing ...
Monday November 2, 2015
eBay Sellers Stung by Returns Abuse with Recent Change
eBay made a change to its returns policy with the recent Fall Seller Update, but an unannounced cha ...