Bonanza is inviting sellers to participate in its spring sale. The online marketplace will promote the sale on social media, but it requires sellers to fund the discounts to buyers. All sellers can participate – they simply create a coupon Read more
One sure way to start a lively debate in an online sellers’ forum is to ask how an item should be packed for safe shipping. Every seller has their own methods and their favorite packing materials – from plastic bubble Read more
A new Etsy home-sale is open to sellers who are willing to offer their items at 20% off. Like most Etsy sales, it requires sellers to fund the discounts to buyers. Etsy advised sellers: “In order to participate in Etsy’s Read more
The Auction Professor is back with advice for sellers on how not to get banned for life from online marketplaces. As a full-time online seller, one of my biggest concerns has always been being banned or booted from a platform, Read more
Amazon is mandating new “dimension” attributes. A reader forwarded the following notification they received this week: “Effective April 26, 2022, we’re providing customers with more information about dimensions for 255 product types. After a grace period of at least 30 Read more
eBay announced today it had joined the Coalition for 1099-K Fairness – though a visit to the website reveals eBay cofounded the group along with Etsy, Mercari, OfferUp, Poshmark, Reverb (owned by Etsy), and Tradesy (owned by Vestiaire Collective). Noticeably Read more
Data from performance marketing agency Tinuiti show that Amazon FBA pandemic restrictions have eased, showing the impact of the restrictions on sellers. Readers may remember that at the start of the pandemic, Amazon stopped accepting sellers’ inbound shipments to its Read more
Mohan Patt, who spent 17 years at eBay and at one time was featured on eBay’s “Our Leaders” page alongside C-suite executives, is out at eBay as it gives its tech leadership a “refreshment.” While eBay’s Chief Technology Officer Mazen Read more
The following is a press release issued by the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts on Monday, April 25, 2022: Former eBay Executive Pleads Guilty to His Role in Cyberstalking CampaignBOSTON – A former eBay, Read more
Amazon was candid about how it decides what to show shoppers in a recent post on its German corporate blog (we used Google Translate to get the English-language version). Amazon said it shows various items it thinks customers searching its Read more
