UPS announced a fulfillment service for small and medium sellers who sell on multiple marketplaces and platforms, from eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, to BigCommerce, Shopify, and Volusion, and Sears, Rakuten, and Walmart. It also supports Amazon Seller Fulfilled Prime. UPS Read more
Now you can get all of your Amazon orders on the same day each week. “Amazon Day” offers Prime members convenience and predictability by allowing them to select the day of the week they wish to receive that week’s orders, Read more
Etsy and Walmart are expanding some eco-friendly initiatives that will also help them generate good PR. Etsy CEO Josh Silverman vowed to offset carbon emissions generated by the shipping of orders by Etsy sellers. “98 percent of Etsy’s total emissions Read more
Amazon launched a new program called Project Zero to help brands take down counterfeit goods on the Amazon marketplace without waiting for Amazon to investigate – “With Project Zero, brands no longer need to contact us to remove a counterfeit Read more
In a move that makes the eBay marketplace more like Amazon, eBay told sellers that all fixed-price listings on site would become permanent, or in eBay parlance, “Good Til Canceled” (GTC). But sellers will still have to pay listing fees Read more
eBay is expanding a feature called “Offer to Buyers” designed to improve conversion. It will become available in Seller Hub next month, according to eBay’s Early 2019 Seller Update announcement published on Tuesday, February 26, 2019. The Offer to Buyers Read more
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused an online seller of paying for fake reviews on Amazon.com. The FTC said it was the first case in which it challenged a marketer’s use of fake paid reviews on an independent retail Read more
Amazon will offer apprenticeships in the UK due to a major shortage of workers with skills in science, tech, engineering and math (STEM) in the country. The announcement comes as the UK is preparing to pull out of the EU Read more
eBay relies heavily on cross-border trade, and last week, it issued a warning about a possible change in government policy that could make it more expensive for US buyers to import goods from abroad. The de minimis threshold is the Read more
Amazon added former Pepsi CEO Indra K. Nooyi to its Board of Directors. Wikipedia says the 63-year-old is consistently ranked among the world’s 100 most powerful women. CNBC noted Nooyi becomes the fifth female member of Amazon’s 11-person board. You Read more
