Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon's VP for Selling Partner Services, announced a new streamlined FBA capacity management system, which includes a new feature for sellers bogged down by their capacity limits. Starting March 2023, Amazon will turn FBA into an auction, so sellers...
Amazon FBA Will Soon Become an Auction: What Does This Mean?
Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon's VP for Selling Partner Services, announced a new streamlined FBA capacity management system, which includes a new feature for sellers bogged down by their capacity limits. Starting March 2023, Amazon will turn FBA into an auction, so sellers...
A Second Amazon Buy Box? Amazon Avoids Billion Dollar Fines in Europe
Last December. Amazon agreed to comply with the European Commission - by putting up a 2nd Buy Box. The e-commerce giant also swore not to use data from partner sellers for its own products. Third, it agreed to give equal opportunity to sellers that don't use FBA for...
The Significance of E-Commerce Support in Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Egypt's Voo has rebranded to SideUp. With the assistance of $1.2mn seed funding, the company is expanding to Saudi Arabia, where it will house its headquarters. Some notable investors include Launch Africa VC, 500 Global, Riyadh Angels, Alex Angels, Al Tuwaijri Fund,...
TikTok Shop: Is it Targeting Amazon?
TikTok has started to advertise job openings for a global fulfilment center, warehousing, item return options, and delivery, all under the umbrella of TikTok Shop, the platform's new e-commerce center. Perhaps it could give Amazon a run for its money - it has over 1...
European ECommerce Report: The State of European Marketplace ECommerce
The numbers are clear: the European marketplace sector is poised for massive growth. It amassed €200bn since 2020, with continuous growth projected for the years to come. This is no small feat; Europe is made of 50 distinct countries, with more than 200 languages...
Should Western E-Commerce Feel Threatened? Chinese E-Commerce Undergoes Global Expansion
The UN Conference on Trade and Development reported that e-commerce's share of global retail trade rose from 14% in 2019 to 17% in 2020. There's no denying it; COVID-19 had a massive impact on e-commerce growth. In fact, there's been a steady incline in retail...
What Amazon Aggregators Do Right – and What They Do Wrong.
A few months ago, YLT Translations started working with the Amazon aggregator. Although so much of YLT's business came from Amazon sellers, the shift in business was agile and necessary. In any case, after considerable back and forth and endless correspondences and...