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EcommerceBytes Blog
News and insight focusing on ecommerce. by Ina Steiner, Editor of EcommerceBytes.com |
eBay CEO Forced to Shift Tactics Due to Shopper Resistance
eBay experienced stagnant growth in the third quarter, and its CEO Devin Wenig said he will shif ...
eBay to Guarantee Fast N Free Delivery Dates
eBay is changing its Fast N Free promise from an "estimated delivery" date to a "guaranteed by" da ...
Monday October 29, 2018
eBay Sellers Say Update to Mobile App Costs Time
A major objective of a mobile app for sellers is to save time, but eBay's summer update to its mob ...
Sunday October 28, 2018
eBay Holds a Sale for a Single Seller
eBay runs all kinds of sales and promotions these days. Often they apply to sellers in its Deals s ...
eBay Split Shipments and Combined Shipping
On a recent weekly chat session , a seller sought help for dealing with split shipments. ...
Wednesday October 24, 2018
eBay Fields Questions About Managed Payments
eBay's weekly chat was dedicated to managed payments this week. Vikas Mehta, who is leadin ...
What If eBay Held an Improvement Expo?
eBay turns to employees to get ideas for innovating its marketplace, culminating in its annual Inn ...
Thursday October 18, 2018
PayPal Report Shows Troubling Signs for eBay
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman was surprisingly critical of eBay's managed payments launch during today's ...
Wednesday October 17, 2018
eBay Sues Amazon over Alleged Seller Recruitment
eBay filed a lawsuit against Amazon today, accusing it of using its member-to-member messaging sys ...
Tuesday October 16, 2018
How to Avoid eBay Fees for Phantom Sales
An eBay moderator provided advice today on how to avoid fees for "phantom" sales - those cases ...
Monday October 15, 2018
eBay Employee Shows Disdain for Sellers Not So Anonymously
See update below for eBay's statement. An eBay employee couldn't resist snarking at se ...
Sunday October 14, 2018
eBay Uses Snail Mail to Recruit Sellers for Payments Plan
eBay turned to the US Postal Service as part of its efforts to recruit sellers to opt in to it ...
Wednesday October 10, 2018
USPS Priority Mail Rates to Rise 6 Percent in January
The USPS filed for a 2019 shipping rate hike that spells bad news for small online sellers who ...
Tuesday October 9, 2018
eBay Reverses Unpopular Markdown Pricing Policy for Now
eBay reversed an unpopular pricing policy that limited sellers who use its Markdown Manager to ...
Monday October 8, 2018
How Good Is eBay at Picking Categories for Your Items?
eBay now believes in simplifying (some would say dumbing down) the listing process and uses techno ...
Sunday October 7, 2018
Amazon Fraud Case Underscores Problem with New eBay Policy
An Amazon buyer has been indicted after Feds accused him of committing fraud using 5 ...
Friday October 5, 2018
eBay Mulls the Fate of Turbo Lister and Why
eBay is mulling the fate of its Turbo Lister inventory management tool and may integrate it into S ...
Wednesday October 3, 2018
eBay Pays Shoppers to Kick the PayPal Habit
To overcome shoppers' resistance to using credit or debit cards instead of PayPal on ...
Tuesday October 2, 2018
Sellers Casualties as War Erupts between eBay and PayPal
When eBay decided to split with PayPal, it all sounded so civilized with a 5-year operating ...
eBay CEO Devin Wenig to Speak on the State of eBay
eBay CEO Devin Wenig will subject himself to an interview about the state of eBay and the future ...
eBay Says Trade Deal with Canada Harms Small Sellers
eBay executive Andrea Stairs says the new NAFTA trade agreement between the US, Canada, and Me ...