Cross-border events of the week: Amazon may merge all site reviews

Amazon is temporarily blocking third-party sellers from using FedEx’s ground delivery network to handle Prime shipments as the company seeks to speed up delivery deadlines during this holiday season. FedEx confirmed the decision in a report from the Wall Street Journal, and the news sent FedEx shares down about 1%.

Recently, many sellers have reported a sudden surge in product reviews. According to feedback from Amazon customer service, reviews from different Amazon sites are being merged. Starting October 15, 2019, Amazon began to experiment with sharing seller reviews for products published by sellers across multiple marketplaces worldwide. It is still in the trial stage.

Amazon previously announced: "Amazon Logistics inventory will stop being received for the Christmas season on December 3. Please wait until January of the following year to send us replenishment inventory, because during the Christmas shopping peak season, we have to go all out to process and deliver buyers' orders and have no time to take care of other things."

Recently, Amazon updated a Vine clause, opening up the use of Vine services to brand sellers. Previously, only suppliers with VC and VE accounts could use Vine, but now professional sellers who have completed brand registration have the opportunity to use it! The condition for participating in the Vine program is that you must complete brand registration, that is, you must be a brand seller.

On December 17, in order to fight for higher wages and better working conditions, German trade union Verdi called on workers at Amazon's important logistics center to continue their strike before Christmas. The union said that employees bear huge burdens and pressure during the Christmas period, and work the longest overtime hours, so they should receive collectively negotiated Christmas subsidies, and the bonus during the Christmas period should be four times the current amount, which is currently only 400 euros (441 US dollars).

Sellers should pay attention. Stan Lee's trademark has been represented by HSP Law Firm. According to SellerDefense, Stan Lee's registered categories include 09, 016, 028, 025, and 041, including pattern trademarks and word trademarks. What everyone should pay attention to is the keyword of infringement, because from the complaint, it seems that the main lawsuit is for trademark infringement. Fortunately, it is still in the filing stage and no seller's account has been frozen, but as a popular image, sellers related to it are likely to be affected, so hurry up to check yourself and reduce losses.

Recently, LightInTheBox announced its financial data for the third quarter of 2019. According to the financial report, LightInTheBox's revenue in the third quarter was US$59.9 million, an increase of 34.6% compared with US$44.5 million in the same period last year, and its gross profit margin increased, marking the second consecutive quarter of revenue growth since the acquisition of ezbuy; it achieved quarterly profit for the first time in five years, with a net profit of US$10 million, an increase of more than 156.2% year-on-year, and adjusted EBITDA also achieved profitability for two consecutive quarters.

Recently, the export e-commerce platform Shopee issued an announcement to inform the new policies of each site, among which many policies of the Taiwan site have changed. It is understood that after launching large-scale logistics services to provide one-stop transportation services for large-scale goods in the Malaysian, Singaporean and Thai markets, Shopee issued an announcement today stating that it will extend the SLS logistics policy of temporarily exempting volumetric weight charging until March 31, 2020, in order to provide freight convenience for merchants.

Recently, the overseas shopping platform eBay has entered the Yangmatou platform as a flagship store, named "eBay Overseas Shopping Flagship Store". The products currently available on the eBay Overseas Shopping Flagship Store on the Yangmatou platform mainly include clothing and shoes, toys, watches and glasses, home furnishings, digital accessories, kitchen supplies, stationery gifts, luggage, perfume and other categories.