Sell It Forward: eBay Tests New Consignment Service

April 8th, 2013

Just in time for your spring cleaning closet purge, eBay has come out with a new consignment program called “Sell It Forward” — and it seems few people have heard about it. The “Sell it Forward” concept is cool on many levels. eBay and Goodwill have partnered up to sell items that you mail in. [...]

Controversy Sells – But Is It Worth The Price?

April 3rd, 2013

Recently, the Weinstein Company (an independent film studio) dropped the production of a line of action figures based on the controversial Quentin Taratino movie, Django Unchained. They did this because they felt the figures were inappropriate due to the movie’s slave-based theme. After this announcement, scores of sellers raced to their local stores to buy-out [...]

Top 5 Reasons to Have a Blog for Your Business

April 1st, 2013

Over the past few years, social media has been highlighted as a way to market and advertise your business. While there are definite advantages to using social media, you can get the word out about your store and gain loyal customers another way – by starting and maintaining a blog with topics that are relevant [...]

Amazon Faces Lawsuit From Small Online Sellers

March 25th, 2013

    It looks like Amazon.com is in hot water again after a lawsuit was filed against them in the U.S. District Court in Seattle last week (March 15th, 2013). The Seattle Times is reporting that a group of small online merchants have filed the class-action lawsuit, claiming that Amazon is violating its own terms, as [...]

eBay’s Spring Seller Update Brings Big Changes

March 20th, 2013

Remember the post from a while back about some sellers wondering what eBay was up to with their free listing invitations? Well, the cat appears to be out of the proverbial bag because on March 19, 2013, eBay announced some very big changes to their listings that are going to benefit both store sellers and [...]

eBay Paid Search Ads on Google: An Interesting Experiment

March 18th, 2013

Have you ever noticed that if you perform a search for eBay on Google that they don’t have a paid search ad? On the other hand, if you search for Amazon, you will see that they do. Well, there’s a reason you don’t find any paid search ads and it is pretty interesting. Back in [...]

Amazon’s Inbound Compliance Report Just Got Easier

March 15th, 2013

As any experienced FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) seller probably knows, the Inbound Compliance report provides information about the inventory that they have shipped to an Amazon fulfillment center. If there is a problem when the shipment arrives at the fulfillment center, Amazon sends an email to the seller and flags the problem in the “Shipping Queue” [...]