https://www.ecommercebytes.com/tag/ebay-lobbying/ Ecommerce Industry News Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:36:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/EB_site_icon-150x150.gif https://www.ecommercebytes.com/tag/ebay-lobbying/ 32 32 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2022/12/20/ebay-and-etsy-ceos-call-for-lawmakers-to-act-on-small-business-issues/ https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2022/12/20/ebay-and-etsy-ceos-call-for-lawmakers-to-act-on-small-business-issues/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:31:49 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=228600 As the year wound down, the CEOs of eBay and Etsy called on US lawmakers to take action to help small-business owners who sell on their respective platforms, but each executive had his own priority. For eBay CEO Jamie Iannone, Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2022/12/20/ebay-and-etsy-ceos-call-for-lawmakers-to-act-on-small-business-issues/feed/ 3 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2022/08/24/ebay-spurred-25000-members-to-lobby-against-the-shop-safe-act/ https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2022/08/24/ebay-spurred-25000-members-to-lobby-against-the-shop-safe-act/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:38:51 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=228029 eBay congratulated members of its Main Street program for their efforts to defeat the Shop Safe Act, which eBay said would have pitted sellers against the largest brands in the world by making them “guilty until proven innocent.” In an Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2022/08/24/ebay-spurred-25000-members-to-lobby-against-the-shop-safe-act/feed/ 1 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/05/19/ebay-and-etsy-sellers-advocate-on-postal-issues-sales-tax-and-more/ https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/05/19/ebay-and-etsy-sellers-advocate-on-postal-issues-sales-tax-and-more/#comments Mon, 20 May 2019 00:38:03 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=13802 eBay and Etsy sent sellers to Washington, DC to lobby lawmakers on issues important to the marketplaces and their sellers, including postal issues, benefits, trade, net neutrality – and of course, online sales tax. Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman started Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/05/19/ebay-and-etsy-sellers-advocate-on-postal-issues-sales-tax-and-more/feed/ 1 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/03/24/ebay-and-amazon-see-opportunity-in-rural-america/ https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/03/24/ebay-and-amazon-see-opportunity-in-rural-america/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2019 17:11:42 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=13416 eBay and Amazon see opportunity in rural America and are calling for better resources to “unlock the digital potential” of rural sellers. There are 37 million working-age adults in the rural US who account for close to 15% of the Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/03/24/ebay-and-amazon-see-opportunity-in-rural-america/feed/ 1 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2018/12/16/tech-companies-huddle-at-ebay-to-discuss-legislative-issues/ https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2018/12/16/tech-companies-huddle-at-ebay-to-discuss-legislative-issues/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2018 01:46:13 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=12303 eBay hosted tech companies from Silicon Valley to discuss legislative issues for the coming year. On hand was California lawmaker Assemblymember Evan Low, who heads the California Assembly Business and Profession Committee, which oversees all licensed professions in California. Tech Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2018/12/16/tech-companies-huddle-at-ebay-to-discuss-legislative-issues/feed/ 2 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2018/01/23/ebay-says-ecommerce-can-help-fight-inequality/ https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2018/01/23/ebay-says-ecommerce-can-help-fight-inequality/#comments Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:01:22 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=8604 eBay’s Director of Global Public Policy Hanne Melin Olbe published an essay about inequalities between citizens of the same country, which she said are becoming a greater political concern. However, “Technology is empowering entrepreneurs in more disadvantaged areas, in ways Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2018/01/23/ebay-says-ecommerce-can-help-fight-inequality/feed/ 2 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2017/12/04/ebay-updates-users-tax-reform/ Tue, 05 Dec 2017 01:39:31 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=8029 eBay posted an announcement about tax reform on its eBay Main Street blog, the company’s grassroots initiative run by its lobbying department. It called out some provisions of the bill passed by the Senate over the weekend, which has some Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2017/11/23/ebay-lobbies-dc-policy-makers-tax-issues/ Fri, 24 Nov 2017 03:43:45 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=7945 eBay Chief Financial Officer Scott Schenkel was in Washington, DC, recently where he met with legislators and White House staff to advocate for sound tax policy for small businesses and entrepreneurs, according to the company, which noted that tax reform Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2017/09/27/ebay-advocates-small-eastern-european-sellers/ Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:34:02 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=7528 The eBay Policy Lab published a new Eastern European Globalization Report that looks at how ecommerce supports the growth of small businesses in Eastern European countries. eBay’s report points to economic and social benefits of an inclusive European marketplace, but Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2017/09/12/ebay-thanks-seller-testifying-trade-barriers/ https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2017/09/12/ebay-thanks-seller-testifying-trade-barriers/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:29:31 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=7383 eBay’s Government Relations team thanked one of its sellers for going to Capitol Hill to testify before the Joint Economic Committee on trade issues. Nick Quade is an eBay Small Business Ambassador who runs the computer networking equipment company Relay Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2017/09/12/ebay-thanks-seller-testifying-trade-barriers/feed/ 4