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Jorge Callejo TikTok Shop Has Opened a Virtual Goods Category: United States Only, Invite Only, and Not a Licence to Sell Services
TikTok Shop now has a documented Virtual Goods category. Its own requirements page, dated 24 July 2026, sets out nine…
TikTok Shop Passes 300,000 UK Small Businesses: Live Selling Is Now a Channel, Not an Experiment
The storefront is leaving the search bar. TikTok Shop now has over 300,000 small UK businesses selling on the platform,…
Amazon Got Its $600 Million Tariff Refund.
Amazon received about $600 million in tariff refunds in the second quarter, and it will hand money back to shoppers…
Shein’s Localization Never Arrived, and the IPO Filing Finally Put a Number On It
Shein spent two years telling regulators, journalists and shoppers it was becoming a local business: local marketplaces, local sellers, local…
Amazon Paid Units Grew 17 Percent and Sellers Carried 61 Percent of Them: The Marketplace Is the Store
Amazon sold 17 percent more paid units worldwide in the second quarter of 2026 than it did a year earlier,…
Amazon Ads Hits 19.8 Billion Dollars: The Storefront Is Leaving the Search Bar
Amazon has just put a price and a performance number on the thing sellers have been watching nervously for two…
Dutch Consumer Group Accuses Amazon and Bol of Fake Discounts
The two largest marketplaces in the Netherlands have been sent a cease and desist letter over the way they display…
Amazon Will Override Your Handling Time From September 1
Handling time has always been the one delivery lever that belonged entirely to the seller. Amazon sets the fees, the…
Amazon Makes Sellers Tag AI Generated People in Listing Images
A single state law in New York has just rewritten how every Amazon seller on the planet has to handle…