Hacker News with Generative AI: E-commerce

Amazon Japan ordered to pay 35M. yen for allowing listing of fakes (mainichi.jp)
A Japanese court on Friday ordered the Japanese unit of online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. to pay 35 million yen ($244,000) in damages for failing to take measures to stop sellers from offering fake products on its platform.
E-commerce, Lawsuits, Counterfeiting, Japan
72 points by resonious 5 hours ago | 10 comments
Vibe shopping across 35,000 Shopify stores (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
E-commerce, Shopify, Shopping
4 points by astronautmonkey 10 days ago | 0 comments
Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads (searchengineland.com)
Temu completely shut off Google Shopping ads in the U.S. on April 9, with its App Store ranking subsequently plummeting from a typical third or fourth position to 58th in just three days.
E-commerce, Advertising, Google Shopping, App Store
380 points by rexbee 11 days ago | 691 comments
Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's? (nymag.com)
E-commerce, Fashion, Retail, Consumerism
162 points by randycupertino 29 days ago | 152 comments
Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024) (citizenlab.ca)
The rise in online shopping has led to more global reach into markets that may otherwise be inaccessible for companies through traditional retail channels. This increased reach brings new opportunities but also has its own challenges for global e-commerce retailers. One such challenge is in dealing with different, more restrictive regulatory environments worldwide.
Censorship, E-commerce, Book Bans, Amazon, Regulation
104 points by gnabgib 30 days ago | 58 comments
eBay backs WunderGraph to build open source GraphQL federation (techcrunch.com)
A fledgling open source startup that’s setting out to tackle API sprawl in the GraphQL ecosystem has secured the backing of e-commerce giant eBay.
Open Source, GraphQL, Startups, E-commerce
8 points by SlickStef11 30 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: I indexed 25,000 Shopify stores to build an embedded shopping API (searchagora.com)
"My wife asked me for a pair of red shoes for Christmas. I quickly typed it into Google and found a combination of ads from large retailers and links to a 1948 movie called 'Red Shoes'. I decided to build Agora to solve my own problem (and stay happily married)."
E-commerce, APIs, Search Engines, Shopping, Entrepreneurship
9 points by pencildiver 38 days ago | 0 comments
Is Product Search Broken? Why Are We Still Stuck with Ads and Fake Reviews? (ycombinator.com)
I’ve been thinking a lot about how broken product search is today. You type in a query, and the first page is just ads, SEO-optimized blogs, or fake reviews. It feels like the system is designed to waste our time rather than help us.
E-commerce, Product Search, Online Advertising, User Experience, Consumer Behavior
27 points by nicola_alessi 39 days ago | 35 comments
Show HN: Fashion Shopping with Nearest Neighbors (vibewall.shop)
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Fashion, E-commerce, Recommendation Systems, Machine Learning
76 points by unixpickle 42 days ago | 22 comments
Thirty years ago, on March first, 1995, Craig Newmark sent a simple email (gardinercolin.com)
Amazon Surpasses Walmart, Prosus Buys Just Eat Takeaway.com, Booking.com hits $165.6B GBV, David's Bridal to Build a Marketplace and Much More!
E-commerce, Business, Acquisitions, Marketplaces
11 points by predogger 45 days ago | 2 comments
Go European: Discover European products and services (goeuropean.org)
E-commerce, Europe, Shopping
688 points by doener 47 days ago | 383 comments
How the Internet Made In-Store Shopping Miserable (wsj.com)
E-commerce didn’t kill bricks-and-mortar stores, but it made them worse. Much worse.
E-commerce, Retail, Consumer Behavior, Shopping, Online Shopping
8 points by bookofjoe 62 days ago | 2 comments
When They Stop Selling Your Favorite Thing (nytimes.com)
Shoppers are going online to pay dearly for discontinued items, from the perfect lip pencil to Tab.
E-commerce, Consumer Behavior, Nostalgia, Discontinued Products, Marketing
5 points by mikhael 63 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: I built a Free price comparison tool for Amazon, eBay, and AliExpress (oneclickcompare.com)
Shop Hot Deals at AliExpress!
E-commerce, Price Comparison, Web Development, Amazon, eBay
21 points by krisozy 64 days ago | 10 comments
Chinese Temu sellers use fake U.S. postage labels to boost their profits (restofworld.org)
Some Chinese Temu merchants are padding their profits by using counterfeit postage labels to trick the U.S. Postal Service into delivering packages for free.
E-commerce, Fraud, China, United States, Shipping
12 points by impish9208 74 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Dealswiki is a deals sharing platform you can earn money posting deals (deals.wiki)
Earn now, get 50% of the affiliate commission when you post deals on deals.wiki!
E-commerce, Web Applications, Sharing Economy, Affiliate Marketing
21 points by timothyxyang 74 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Built A Better Shopify (that's not a rip off) (gitpage.site)
Save 360+ Hours of Development Time
E-commerce, Shopify, Open Source, Development Tools
14 points by ambitiouz 74 days ago | 9 comments
Platform for supporting local sellers and buyers (blunum.com)
E-commerce, Local Businesses, Marketplaces
15 points by blunum 81 days ago | 12 comments
Show HN: I indexed 10M Shopify products to build an API (searchagora.com)
"My wife asked me for a pair of red shoes for Christmas. I quickly typed it into Google and found a combination of ads from large retailers and links to a 1948 movie called 'Red Shoes'. I decided to build Agora to solve my own problem (and stay happily married)."
E-commerce, Search Engines, APIs
13 points by pencildiver 82 days ago | 5 comments
A loophole used by Shein/Temu to ship packages to US tax-free (2024) (businessinsider.com)
As Shein and Temu grow their foothold in the US, analysts and lawmakers are paying close attention to both companies' use of a special tax rule that some say should be eliminated completely.
E-commerce, Taxation, International Trade, Business, Law
130 points by donsupreme 83 days ago | 107 comments
Temu, Shein and Amazon to be liable in EU for 'unsafe' or 'illegal' goods (ft.com)
E-commerce, EU Regulations, Consumer Protection, Product Safety
31 points by belter 83 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I made a price aggregator to find the best PC parts deals across eBay (pcprice.watch)
Hardware, E-commerce, Web Development, Price Comparison
20 points by tzoSkatzo 87 days ago | 16 comments
Bookshop.org is launching an eBook store to take on Amazon (theverge.com)
Local bookstores should benefit from ebooks, too, Bookshop.org thinks. Making that happen at scale will take a fight.
E-commerce, Books, Competition, Amazon
28 points by divbzero 88 days ago | 9 comments
Oops Our Bug Created a Stampede of Price Watches (camelcamelcamel.com)
If you noticed some strange behavior in your price watches recently, like duplicate alerts popping up out of nowhere, you’re not losing it. That’s on us. We had a little hiccup (okay, a big hiccup) with our system, and here’s the story.
Software, Bugs, Price Tracking, E-commerce
7 points by duxup 92 days ago | 0 comments
Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML (softwaredoug.com)
In previous posts I use a local LLM to choose which two products were more relevant for a search query (see this github repo). Using human labels in an open e-commerce search dataset as a baseline (WANDS from Wayfair), I measure the LLM’s preference for a product, seeing if it matches human raters. If I can do this, then I can use my laptop as the search relevance judge.
Machine Learning, Search Relevance, E-commerce
184 points by fzliu 94 days ago | 78 comments
American Sellers Lost Amazon to China (marketplacepulse.com)
In 2024, China-based sellers increased their market share to more than 50% on Amazon.
E-commerce, Amazon, China, Business, Market Share
8 points by bookofjoe 100 days ago | 3 comments
eBay acquires Caramel to reduce risk and complexity of online car sales (techcrunch.com)
E-commerce giant eBay has announced plans to acquire Caramel, a startup that helps car sellers and buyers complete the final steps of the transaction — including verification, financing, paperwork, ownership transfer, insurance, and more.
E-commerce, Acquisitions, Automotive, Finance
3 points by ryan_j_naughton 103 days ago | 0 comments
A free and complete E-commerce Store Builder powered by AI (storelauncher.app)
E-commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Software, Startups
13 points by tookietherookie 104 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Pixie – A tool to shop for clothes using pictures (ShopWithPixie.com)
Shopping, Image Recognition, Tools, E-commerce, Fashion
13 points by dayaya 111 days ago | 4 comments
Lawsuit:PayPal Accused of Poaching Commissions Via Its 'Honey' Browser Extension (law.com)
Fintech giant PayPal was hit with a proposed class action on Sunday for allegedly pocketing sales commissions belonging to YouTube influencers for promoting products and services in their content.
Fintech, Lawsuits, Class Action, E-commerce, YouTube
5 points by xbmcuser 115 days ago | 0 comments