Ina Steiner

20 hours ago | ecommercebytes.com | Ina Steiner

eBay announced a generative-AI tool sellers can use to create videos featuring product photos “to attract potential buyers and help boost your listing’s visibility.” eBay released the news as part of last week’s eBay May 2025 Seller Update, and it made more of a splash this week with an announcement on its Innovation blog on Tuesday, explaining in part:“Our new generative AI video tool intuitively allows sellers to transform product listing images into professional-quality videos.

23 hours ago | ecommercebytes.com | Ina Steiner

eBay sellers have a lot on their minds and took advantage of eBay's May 7th Seller Check-in virtual event to ask questions and make suggestions to eBay managers. Topics discussed on the platform's Q&A feature ranged from eBay's advertising services to shipping. Some sellers tackled hot-button issues like feedback and VeRO. Others made a case for changes that could benefit sellers, such as asking eBay for more data on Offers, explaining how it could help them with pricing.

1 day ago | ecommercebytes.com | Ina Steiner

Etsy “re-architected” its search engine to add a “Q Score,” CEO Josh Silverman told a Wall Street gathering on Tuesday – and it is telling sellers how to improve their Q Score to raise their prominence in search. The Q stands for quality, meaning the Etsy search engine doesn’t exclusively consider relevance anymore. Silverman said historically Etsy’s search engine had prioritized what buyers are most likely to buy.

1 day ago | ecommercebytes.com | Ina Steiner

Online marketplace Bonanza announced in April it was raising fees as of May 1, but some sellers may be unaware they are now accumulating much higher fees, a reader informed us this week. "How many sellers on Bonanza with hundreds/thousands of listings are going to charged monthy and will be completely unaware? I'm guessing most Bonanza sellers are eBay sellers who imported their items for some extra sales. But in reality, most sell nothing/almost nothing on Bonanza," the seller said.

2 days ago | ecommercebytes.com | Ina Steiner

The White House announced on Monday that the US and China will each lower tariffs by 115% while retaining an additional 10% tariff as part of a 90-day suspension. Other US measures will remain in place – including the removal of the de minimis exemption. That means US shoppers will continue to pay duties on small packages sent directly to them from China even when they are valued at $800 or less, whereas prior to May 2nd, they did not have to.