One of the largest Amazon.com sellers ToysNGamesEtc have changed their name to River Colony Trading on March 31st 2016. ToysNGamesEtc is one of the oldest and best known sellers in the Amazon.com marketplace. As the name suggests they started selling Toys first, but by now have branched in practically every department on Amazon.
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This week we’re happy to announce that our dataset now includes research from Amazon.de, as well as Ebay Germany. This is of particular interest because Amazon.de is the largest Amazon marketplace after Amazon.com and also accounts for the largest ecommerce site in Germany.
Read moreWe are happy to announce that we have included categories a seller sells in into the data available. This is displayed for all Amazon countries. Now when browsing sellers you can quickly glance at the amount of products they have in stock and also what categories are those products spread across. This makes it that much more easier to understand what focus does a seller have.
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We only just launched Ebay analysis, but we are ready to start analyzing the growth of all sellers in the marketplace. What surprised us is how many of the top sellers are not based in the USA. China and India both look very strong in the list, offering great selection and prices to buyers thousands of miles away. Ebay is still a new marketplace for us, so we are just learning about the intricate details of it - expect much more in the future as we unravel more details.
Read moreTop 3 sellers in February are all selling their own branded products. While Christmas season was very strong for traditional reseller-style Amazon retailers, so far 2016 has shown great results for sellers focused on designing and manufacturing their own products. Existing brands are launching on the Amazon marketplace and are very quickly finding the customers. As private labeling is heating up, more and more sellers are trying to grow their own brands as well.
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On February 24, 2016 Best Buy closed its US marketplace business. Best Buy first opened its marketplace in September 2011. There were about 100 marketplace sellers, which altogether contributed to less than 1% of sales.
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Without a big announcement Amazon has entered the Fashion business. Ed Yruma, managing director at KeyBanc Capital Markets reported yesterday that Amazon.com has launched over 1,800 different fashion products on its site, under seven different brand names it trademarked. Those brands are Franklin & Freeman, Franklin Tailored, James & Erin, Lark & Ro, North Eleven, Scout + Ro and Society New York.
Read moreInteresting look at the incredible success of Pharmapacks, one of the top Amazon.com marketplace retailers, by the Inc. magazine. Thanks in no part to their development of proprietary algorithms, and a look at the general rise of companies selling through third-party marketplaces.
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January had a lot of new faces like Sky Organics, RockCityBooks and USA DEFENDER. Our congratulations goes to Sky Organics for being the fastest growing seller in January, but also for achieving this by selling handmade products.
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Both Amazon and eBay recently announced their 2015 Q4 results. Since the fourth quarter has most of the key shopping events - Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas shopping - everyone was excited to see how well those companies did. We have recently started monitoring eBay sellers so we looked at which one came out ahead.
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