November 2024 - $EBAY Promoted Listings General campaign setup said: "An ad rate is the percentage of your item's total sale amount that is charged when a buyer clicks your general ad & purchases any of your promoted listings within 30 days." June 2025 - eBay now says "The ad

eBay community staff now says there was a "system error" which caused them to miss attribution for prev sales that should have had Promoted Listings ad fees charged & they apologize for the inconvenience but - nothing about crediting sellers for the fees. 💸 $EBAY #eBayseller

📢 Etsy has made an unannounced update to their creativity standards, targeting some 3D printed or digital items, generic supplies & more for removal from the platform effective June 10, 2025. $ETSY #Etsyseller valueaddedresource.net/etsy-creativit…

Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource Etsy is ruined at this point. When I search "vintage lace curtains" it's mainly Chinese products or random unrelated items. That's just an example. Their algorithm is ruined by Chinese stuff.

Evolmenace Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource Hmm that’s not iust a knockoff Rolex or something that’s counterfeiting US currency. The Secret Service should be after this one

Months later and the accounts are still active, pumping out fake patches. Nice work, eBay blowoutforums.com/showthread.php…

So does this mean people who have paid for commercials licenses for models, or have a model with a CC license to sell, or a model with an open source license, are now affected by this change - prevented from selling 3D prints on Etsy?

June seems to be the new January for UPS and FedEx surcharge changes. FedEx follows UPS by announcing additional handling, oversize changes & more for intl shipments effective June 14. Also, FedEx's fuel surcharge increased on June 9. fedex.com/en-us/shipping…

Etsy is now prohibiting printed/cricut items that use templates designed by other people. Designs must be original to the seller. I suspect this stems from IP issues over template licenses but could also be to cut down on a duplicative catalog.

I gave Perplexity Asra Nomani's list of sponsors for today's #NoKingsProtest & asked it to identify any that receive 💰 from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network, Democracy Fund & other Omidyar-connected orgs. Interesting results. 🧐 #NoKings perplexity.ai/search/i-m-att…

eBay TCGPlayer union closing deal, Promoted Listings updates, Live UK; Walmart pre-loved expansion; Etsy creativity standards changes & more in this week in review! valueaddedresource.net/week-in-review…

A CA woman is suing Costco, claiming advertising “free shipping” online while hiding delivery costs in product prices is misleading consumers. 📦 valueaddedresource.net/costco-free-sh…

Here's eBay explicitly admitting that illegal copyright infringement is within their policy. Meanwhile, I've had items removed for copyright infringement that are not copyrighted (by anyone) and protected under fair use statutes (namely significantly altered remix records).