Products of Western sports and fashion brands such as Adidas, Puma, Ray Ban, Nike or Guess have appeared on the marketplace of Shein. Some of the affected brands have already announced legal steps. Carpathia and Wiwo

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Zalando has reworked its partner portal. The new version combines the most relevant service offers for selling partners, such as Wholesale, partner program, connected Retail and all marketing and logistic services in one platform. Fashionunited

American Eagle Outfitters sues Amazon over alleged “knock-offs” of Aerie products. According to American Eagle, Amazon hat used Aerie trademarks on its site to deceive shoppers into believing the products were available on Amazon, even though American Eagle hasn’t autherized the sale of Aerie products on Amazon. CNBC

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95 per cent of products imported by Asian shopping platforms such as Temu do not meet EU safety standards,  the German customs department of Darmstadt has found after conducting 800 sample inspections of imported goods. Frankfurter Rundschau

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Otto has lost over 1.100 seller partners on its marketplace since April 2024, the German business newspaper “Handelsblatt” reports. Nearly 700 sellers were fired from the marketplace by Otto, round about 500 sellers have left the platform on their own account due to frustration over raised fees, technical problems and high return rates. LinkedIn

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The DIY marketplace B&Q has been growing fast in the first half of 2024. 1.5 million products are now listed on diy.com by 1.300 merchants. Overall, the platform turned a GMV of 157 million British pounds from January to July 2024, 40 percent of this GMV results from the marketplace. Kingfisher

Marketplace Universe Weekly readers have already known for weeks what Amazon has now officially announced: The next Prime Day Deals will commence on October 8 and 9. LinkedIn

The struggling FBA aggregator SellerX is not being auctioned after all. Main investor BlackRock wanted to auction the company on September 17 because it wasn’t able to pay its loans. In the end, BlackRock cancelled the auction just before midnight on September 16. Exciting Commerce

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New data from emarketer suggests that e-commerce in Western Europe might be on the rise again. Online sales in Germany, UK, France, Italy and Spain together could grow by 5 percent in 2024. LinkedIn

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Amazon eases the export to countries without a specific Amazon Store with the new Export Central, which is part of Amazon’s EU Export programm. With it, sellers can enable international shipping settings to 39 European countries with just a few clicks. AboutAmazon

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British fasion retailer and marketplace Asos.com will sell its daughter chain Topshop/Topman not to Shein – even though the chinese company made the best offer. Instead, Asos decided to take a lower bid from investor group Heartland. Just-Style

Amazon has reduced the deadline for processing unsaleable stock from 30 to 23 days. If companies miss this deadline, Amazon can dispose of these products. LinkedIn

The financing of the internationalization of the Swiss marketplace Galaxus to Germany and other European countries is now secured until at least 2029. 2.5 million German customers shop on Galaxus.de and generated a turnover of 286 million euros in 2023.
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40 per cent of everything sold on eBay are either second-hand or refurbished items, eBay-CEO Jamie Iannone stated in an interview with Channel-X. Channel-X

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The online gaming platform Roblox, which has 79 million daily active users, plans to sell physical products directly on the platform starting in 2025. Roblox users will then see a “Buy Now” prompt in the game alongside the virtual product. Initially, this will only be possible for Roblox creators with a Shopify store. In addition, the platform will also launch an affiliate program for creators. Onlinemarketing

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