{"id":10902,"date":"2017-09-15T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.repricerexpress.com\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2020-06-24T00:09:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T23:09:22","slug":"amazon-ecommerce-news-150917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repricerexpress.com\/amazon-ecommerce-news-150917\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Interesting Stories from the World of Ecommerce This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Welcome to this week&#8217;s eFocus, RepricerExpress&#8217; weekly round-up of ecommerce and Amazon news.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Amazon was tricked by a fake law firm into removing a hot product, costing this seller $200,000:<\/strong> Eugene Kim at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\">CNBC<\/a> reports on a very interesting Amazon story. Shortly before Amazon Prime Day, the owner of the Brushes4Less store on Amazon&#8217;s marketplace received a suspension notice for his best-selling product, a toothbrush head replacement. The email said the product was being delisted from the site because of an intellectual property violation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/09\/07\/amazon-was-tricked-by-fake-law-firm-into-removing-toothbrush-head.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Find, Amazon&#8217;s own label clothing line is an online hit:<\/strong> Sarah Young at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Independent<\/a> reports that Amazon has launched its own-brand clothing line called Find. Developed by Amazon\u2019s European fashion division \u2013 which has grown to include designer Karen Peacock, and Glen George, a former buyer for Primark \u2013 alongside simple staples, Find\u2019s first collection features seriously fashionable items that tick all the autumn\/winter trend boxes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/fashion\/amazon-clothing-line-find-own-label-fashion-range-hit-launch-menswear-womenswear-cheap-a7942491.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon kicks off competition for new HQ:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\">BBC News<\/a> reports that Amazon wants to build a massive second headquarters in North America, sparking immediate competition from rival cities to attract what could be billions of dollars in investment. Officials from Toronto, Texas, Maryland and Chicago were among those who said they planned to try to win Amazon&#8217;s new venture. The ecommerce giant is seeking a base for as many as 50,000 workers and plans to spend $5bn (\u00a33.8bn) on the project over 15-17 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-41192159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Should Amazon buy Nordstrom next?<\/strong> Eric Johnson at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/\">Recode<\/a> reports that the last time he was a guest on Recode Decode, NYU professor and brand expert Scott Galloway casually (and accurately) predicted that Amazon would buy Whole Foods. On this week\u2019s episode, he states, \u201cThe logical next one would be Nordstrom\u2019s. It would be cheap, it\u2019s in Seattle, they\u2019re operationally very sound, it\u2019s a great company and they\u2019re trying to establish relationships with high-end brands, which they have been unable to do.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/9\/11\/16284754\/amazon-nordstrom-fashion-scott-galloway-prime-squared-recode-decode-podcast-kara-swisher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>eBay Collections to be \u2018scrapped\u2019:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/tamebay.com\/author\/dan\">Dan Wilson<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/tamebay.com\/\">Tamebay<\/a> reports that eBay Collections are to be all but scrapped. Billed as an engaging tool for shoppers and a way to showcase eBay\u2019s more eclectic selection of inventory, thematic collections were heavily promoted in search and also the eBay homepage. eBay Collections will no longer be shown in search and browse results or the homepage. <a href=\"https:\/\/tamebay.com\/2017\/09\/ebay-collections-scrapped.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this week&#8217;s eFocus, RepricerExpress&#8217; weekly round-up of ecommerce and Amazon news. Amazon was tricked by a fake law firm into removing a hot product, costing this seller $200,000: Eugene Kim at CNBC reports on a very interesting Amazon story. Shortly before Amazon Prime Day, the owner of the Brushes4Less store on Amazon&#8217;s marketplace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>5 Interesting Stories from the World of Ecommerce This Week<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Welcome to Ecommerce Weekly, RepricerExpress&#039; review of the top ecommerce, Amazon and eBay news from around the Web this week.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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