Customers ordered over 500 million items from independent sellers on Amazon during its Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday shopping event, which kicked off November 17 and continued through November 27th. Amazon said most indie sellers are small and medium-sized Read more
eBay CEO Jamie Iannone said the marketplace saw higher sales of refurbished goods and vintage fashion over the Thanksgiving weekend. The CEO made the remarks in a post on LinkedIn on Wednesday, where he said more people are choosing pre-loved Read more
eBay announced it invested in sports trading-card company COMC, a marketplace for collecting and selling sports cards, gaming cards, comics, and more. The two companies have entered a commercial agreement “to accelerate the growth of the trading card hobby.” “With Read more
The USPS cited some disruptions that impacted its recent performance, including a hazmat leak in Missouri in October. Each week, the USPS issues delivery performance metrics for market-dominant services (First-Class Mail, Marketing Mail, and Periodicals). In its November 27th release, Read more
Etsy is running another Etsy-funded promotion, this time offering shoppers $5 off on a minimum purchase of $30, today only. Buyers in the US, Canada, UK, and Eurozone can use the code CYBER5 to get the discount. There’s no limit Read more
In 2019, eBay acquired a UK classifieds site called Motors.co.uk from Cox Automotive and merged it with its Gumtree classifieds business. Motors.co.uk continued to be the brand by which consumers knew the site, while dealers came to know it as Read more
Amazon has an “FBA revenue calculator” to help sellers make decisions about how they use Fulfillment by Amazon. On Friday, it published a post showing sellers how they could use it to “remove some of the guesswork” from calculating costs Read more
Online sales on Black Friday (November 24, 2023) reached nearly $10 billion, according to data from Adobe Analytics: spending rose 7.5% compared to last year’s shopping holiday to reach a record $9.8 billion. Eighty percent of Black Friday online orders used Read more
American Express created Small Business Saturday to encourage support for small businesses in 2010 (it has been officially cosponsored by the US Small Business Administration since 2011), and it has become an annual tradition that falls the day after Black Read more
Amazon streamed the first NFL game ever held the day after Thanksgiving, and it offered in-game Black Friday shopping deals to viewers. CBS Sports said Amazon came up with the idea and paid $100 million to the NFL to have Read more
