Get Our Latest Analysis on eBay Here are the key news stories impacting eBay this week: Founded in 1995 as AuctionWeb by Pierre Omidyar, eBay has grown from an online auction site into a broad e-commerce platform. Before you consider eBay,…
The problem with pricing on marketplaces like Etsy is the hidden math. You are not just dealing with a simple percentage cut. There is the $0.20 listing fee, the 6.5% transaction fee, the 3% + $0.25 payment processing fee, and potentially the 12% offsite ads fee…
Three things management said on the earnings call stand out. E-commerce behavior is shifting as younger consumers buy pre-owned goods more frequently. Expanding resale platform Depop increases gross merchandise volume, or GMV, which measures the total dollar value of goods…
The rules extend to products beyond physical goods. Sellers who offer "functional guides," a category Etsy defines as patterns, recipes, or instructions, must ensure that the information in those products "must be your own work, not generated by AI." Those…
View live demos, ask questions and more, with livestream auctions on eBay Boasting an impressive 136 million active buyers worldwide, eBay has been at the forefront of person-to-person online selling since the 1990s. Now, with eBay Live, that same idea has been…
When I first started selling my handmade goods on Etsy, I was thrilled to see the orders roll in. But a few months later, I sat down to review my bank deposits and realized something was off. The money hitting…
Etsy’s CEO says the company is facing an artificial intelligence (AI)-related paradox. Goyal made these comments to analysts as the eCommerce marketplace released quarterly earnings showing a 10.9% uptick in revenue. The results come days after the company announced new…
Reactivating existing shoppers while expanding new user acquisition provides a larger pool of repeat demand for sellers. Higher engagement and higher average spending demonstrate that buyers are finding more value on the platform. By using AI and machine learning to…
Now, two companies with tools built especially for those sellers are combining their wealth of expertise to bring the next step in sourcing software. SellerAmp (creator of sourcing tool SellerAmp SAS) has teamed up with product sourcing platform ArbiSource to…
If you sell printables, planners, templates or other digital downloads on Etsy, you've probably looked at a payout and wondered where the rest went. Listing fees, transaction fees, processing fees and, on some orders, a 15% Offsite Ads fee all come…
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