Walmart is Watching You

Posted in eCommerce News Walmart has legions of fans and loyal customers. They also have serious critics, for example a quick Google search finds WalmartSucks.org, Walmart-Blows.com, and we have all heard conspiracy theories like blog posts, how Walmart is taking over, some say in insidious ways. While some may think this sounds like crazy conspiracy theories, two things happened that may fuel these theories a bit...
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eBay Fee Changes Hit Auction Sellers Hard

Posted in eBay News eBay’s changes to its fee structure will have a big impact auction sellers – and they have only 1 month from the time of the announcement to adjust their auction-selling strategies. eBay will begin including shipping & handling costs into its Final Value Fees. For sellers who don’t have an eBay Store, that means a brand new fee of 9% of shipping & handling costs for...
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Seven lessons to learn from Amazon’s outage

Posted in Amazon News As of the latest update this afternoon on Amazon’s Service Health Dashboard, only a handful of customers are still waiting for their EBS and RDS instances to be restored after Thursday’s harrowing outage. But for everyone involved (not least Amazon’s own operations staff) it’s been a very long four days (see latest Techmeme discussion). What are the lessons to learn? Read...
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