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Major Loophole Lets Online Sellers Skirt US Import Duties
Theo Wayt and Ann Gehan of The Information are out with another important story involving e ...
Wednesday March 27, 2024
Mercari Eliminates Selling Fees as It Adds Buyer Fees
Mercari is eliminating selling fees immediately, even as the costs of selling on other marke ...
Monday March 25, 2024
Most Honest Statement about Marketplace Testing
Online sellers hate change, but an Etsy engineer said out loud what many sellers suspected about m ...
Friday March 22, 2024
Facebook Marketplace to Double Fees in April?
It's free to sell on Facebook Marketplace for local drop-off and pickup, but sellers pay a 5% fe ...
Monday March 18, 2024
Etsy Sellers Unable to Deactivate Abandoned Cart Promos
Etsy lets sellers entice shoppers who have shown an interest in an item (by putting it in thei ...
Friday March 15, 2024
Dumbest Reason for Amazon Seller Suspension?
Selling on sites like Amazon and eBay can be life changing, but for a minority of sellers, it can ...
Tuesday March 12, 2024
Sellers Tell Etsy to Stay Out of Their Settings
Etsy is adding Saturday and Sunday to sellers' processing time, and sellers are not pleased that ...
Sunday March 10, 2024
eBay to Launch Preloved Partner Pilot Program
eBay is launching a new pilot program to highlight "preloved" fashion at the end of March, which s ...
Tuesday March 5, 2024
Major Outage Hits Facebook on Tuesday
People worried their Facebook accounts were hacked on Tuesday morning when they were unable to ...
Friday March 1, 2024
Amazon Scares Booksellers with Email Mix-up
Amazon notified sellers of a restriction on their ability to sell textbooks beginning February 2 ...