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What Do You Think of Changes to On-Time Shipping Metric?
eBay expects sellers to deliver items on time, and they use the On-time Shipping Metric as a key me ...
Tuesday August 30, 2016
How Will New eBay Fees Impact Auctions?
eBay is making a change to the optional Reserve Price fee for auction-format listings. eB ...
Monday August 29, 2016
Google Hit by India Spam Network Using Millions of Gmail Accounts
As online merchants, you are probably sensitive to changes to marketplaces affecting your businesse ...
Sunday August 28, 2016
What's Behind Amazon's Shocking New Seller Fee?
Would you pay $1,000 to Amazon to get approval to sell a particular brand on its marketplace? That' ...
Saturday August 27, 2016
Amazon Follows eBay in Giving Hand to Global Sellers
Amazon is helping 12,000 sellers in India help reach shoppers in North America and Europe through a ...
Friday August 26, 2016
eBay Site Goes Down Early Friday AM, Comes Back Online
eBay experienced an outage this morning (August 26) at about 5 am ET. It's unclear exactly how lo ...
Monday August 22, 2016
eBay Unleashes Machine Learning on Search Pages
Everyone is buzzing about Artificial Intelligence and machine learning these days, and eBay is no e ...
Wednesday August 17, 2016
US Postal Inspection Service Funds TV Program on CBS
Last year we told you about a new TV program about fictional US Postal Inspectors and their efforts ...
Tuesday August 16, 2016
PayPal Issue Impacts Payments
Some PayPal users had problems sending payments on Tuesday afternoon, while some said they also had ...
Thursday August 11, 2016
Etsy Featured in Tips on Buying from China
Sellers are buzzing about this article in the UK's Money Saving Expert called " 12 Buyi ...
Wednesday August 10, 2016
It's Official: Seller Hub Is Available to All
eBay announced in late July that its Seller Hub was available to all US sellers, and now it has off ...
Tuesday August 9, 2016
Should USPS Abandon Its Non Postal Pursuits?
On Tuesday, the US Postal Service reported a net loss of $1.6 billion in the three-month period end ...
Sunday August 7, 2016
Do You Have a Rule of Thumb for Best Offers?
People seem to do much more haggling these days than in the past, in real life and on sites like eB ...
Thursday August 4, 2016
eBay Changes to Search Could Prove Unpopular
eBay's Vice President of Shipping gave a broad hint about how the marketplace may change the way it ...
Tuesday August 2, 2016
Etsy Releases Second Quarter 2016 Earnings
Etsy's conference call with analysts is at 5:30 pm EST today, here is the company's press release& ...