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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

    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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]