Charlotte Hughes 
Amazon has switched on FBA Returnless Resolutions on Amazon.co.uk, letting enrolled sellers refund shoppers on items up to £75 without the goods coming back. Sellers save on processing and storage but lose the stock, with no reimbursement.
The Budget trebles the Income Tax trading allowance from £1,000 to £3,000 from 6 April 2027, lifting the Self Assessment threshold for small sellers too. Here is what changes for people selling on Vinted, eBay, Depop and Etsy, and what stays the same.
Poundland owner Gordon Brothers has declined a solvent takeover offer from Martin Property Group, pushing the 600-shop discount chain towards administration. A revised bid within 48 hours could still save the business whole.
Which? found 40 potentially dangerous products on online marketplaces in a few hours and has taken its campaign to Westminster. Official notices show 28 of October’s 64 OPSS safety reports name a marketplace, while the government’s promised platform duty is still unpublished.
Costco’s fiscal 2027 plan of 33 openings nets out to 28 new warehouses, but the base case here is 24–26 by the year’s close on 29 August 2027. Three signals, including a fully documented fiscal 2026 markdown chain, point to a shortfall that likely surfaces at the March or May 2027 call.
GameStop’s September filings point to a governance escalation at eBay rather than a higher price, with nominations likely inside the February 17 to March 19, 2027 advance-notice window. The same signals suggest no raised bid, no tender offer and no stake at or above 10%.
US Customs and Border Protection has issued two Withhold Release Orders blocking palm oil and derivative products from Indonesian producers Mitra Aneka Rezeki and Hardaya Inti Plantation. Shipments are detained at all US ports of entry, and importers must prove by clear and convincing evidence that no forced labor was involved.
Costco disclosed $184 million in IEEPA tariff refunds in its fiscal fourth quarter and said most of the money is going back into member prices. The disclosure is the clearest sign yet that the post-ruling refund wave is reaching shelf prices.
Signals from the last four weeks point to installment terms surfacing inside AI shopping results before checkout, with a UCP pay-later standard authored with Klarna and Affirm and Google showing terms on US product results by 31 March 2027. NRF 2027 in mid-January is the first checkpoint.
Stripe and Advent walked away from $60.50 on August 28 and PayPal has traded about 12% below that since, while the standalone plan moved the stock less than a dollar. The pattern suggests a public activist campaign, most likely with a Venmo separation ask, before the Q4 2026 results in early February 2027.