eBay is running a promotion for sellers in the UK this week, but it’s for business sellers for a change. The UK marketplace frequently runs promotions for private (casual) sellers, and sales for business sellers are less frequent. However, this Read more
It was a straightforward yet impactful change Google revealed to the world. A site’s friendliness to visitors arriving on mobile devices would affect its ranking. Google said on its Webmaster Central blog, “This change will affect mobile searches in all languages Read more
PayPal is continuing to make preparations for becoming an independent company once it breaks up with eBay. This week, it sent an email to its users informing them of changes to its policies. As the payments service explained in its Read more
eBay sent an email this week to buyers and sellers warning them of changes to its user agreement and privacy policy prompted in part by the breakup with PayPal. The changes go into effect on June 15 for current users. Read more
Online merchants who use UPS to ship packages paid lower fuel surcharges this year, but dim-weight pricing raised the cost of shipping. That’s the news gleaned from first-quarter financial results from UPS. Both UPS and FedEx instituted what’s called dimensional weight Read more
Etsy confirmed it is investigating reports of a problem with its card reader that allows sellers to process in-person credit card payments. Some sellers discovered last week that Etsy failed to show transactions they had processed through the readers. Etsy Read more
