Retailers like Amazon create cash by buying goods from vendors and selling them to consumers. We recently made Amazon Cash Conversion Cycle public, it was -37.40 last year. What this number means is that after Amazon collected payments from customers it only paid their supplies 37 days later.
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We looked at the top eBay US stores to see where they are located. We found that roughly 30% of the top 10,000 sellers are based in China.
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In the last 12 months, we detected close to 700,000 new sellers join Amazon.com. Many more joined other Amazon marketplaces, but in this analysis we chose to focus on the US market alone.
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New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo is proposing several tax-related changes in the 2017-2018 Executive Budget Bill, one of which is the marketplace sales tax. The bill effectively shifts the sales tax collection burden from the seller to the marketplace.
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Amazon in Europe is a unique market - while there are 5 separate marketplaces (UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy), the countries are close enough to each other that they can be treated like a single marketplace. So we decided to analyze European marketplaces and see how much of cross border selling is there.
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In an unexpected turn of events Rakuten sellers received an email saying that their seller privileges are to be terminated because Rakuten is "focusing our efforts on a very limited assortment of products and merchants in the near term".
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China's e-commerce market is larger than any other country's in the world - it represents almost a half of e-commerce sales worldwide. While US retailers on Amazon are starting to feel the competition of Chinese competitors, the question is how is this competition going to go the other way.
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Today Etsy reported Q4 2016 and full year results and all the numbers look great. Sellers sold $2.8 billion worth of products, up by 19.0% from a year ago.
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Insights for Sellers is the latest addition to Marketplace Pulse. We want to help you sell better. We have been collecting billions of data points since our inception, and this is our way to share it with you.
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Back in December we wrote an article on the rise of fraudulent sellers on Amazon. This was causing so much frustration that even Forbes picked up on our findings and wrote an article Amazon Scams On The Rise In 2017 As Fraudulent Sellers Run Amok And Profit Big. We are happy to report that Amazon has been making some changes and have improved the situation.
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