eBay doubled the number of photos it allows sellers to add to their listings. As we previously reported, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone attributed the idea for the new feature to fashion sellers during a meeting he held with them in Read more
Amazon said small businesses in the US generated $1 billion in sales over the 5-day Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend and called it the biggest holiday shopping weekend ever. “This was a record-breaking holiday shopping weekend for Amazon. Customers shopped millions Read more
It will cost more to sell on Etsy’s Depop fashion resale marketplace in January when it raises payment-processing fees. Depop blamed it on credit card companies increasing the fees they charge Depop to process transactions. Beginning January 5, 2023, the Read more
This year saw a greater number of people shopping over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend (a record 196.7 million), which also saw the resurgence of in-store shopping, according to National Retail Federation CEO Matthew Shay. The head of the trade organization Read more
Shopify and BigCommerce reported on sales trends over the 2022 Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Both companies provide a platform for sellers to operate their own online stores, so their reports may give greater insight into how smaller merchants performed compared to Read more
Amazon is obsessed with inventory turnover, which is how fast products ship out after they’re stocked on fulfillment center shelves. So it’s baffling when sellers report inventory they ship to FBA warehouses go missing. Compounding matters, many say they’re unable Read more
UPS issued a special announcement to inform customers it is keeping its guarantee for Next Day Air packages throughout the peak season. “If a customer ships a package expecting Next Day service, they’ll receive Next Day service,” the shipping carrier Read more
eBay appears to be putting its holiday marketing budget into its handful of focus categories as it runs another sale in luxury goods to attract big spenders. After recently funding coupons to encourage shoppers in luxury watches and fine jewelry, Read more
Etsy said it’s been working behind the scenes to provide more accurate estimates for when buyers should expect their orders to arrive. In a post last week, Etsy described how it calculates estimated delivery dates that it displays to buyers: Read more
Just a few weeks ago, Amazon and some other retailers and marketplaces told Wall Street they weren’t sure what kind of fourth-quarter growth to expect with all the economic uncertainty. But aggregated sales data for Black Friday (November 25, 2022) Read more
