eBay Is Planning New Shipping Service to Challenge Rival Amazon
- ‘Managed Delivery’ offers sellers faster, cheaper delivery
- Service to launch in the U.S. in 2020 following trials
EBay Inc. is launching a service to deliver orders more quickly and cheaply, the company’s latest effort to be more appealing to shoppers and sellers as well as compete with Amazon.com Inc.
EBay isn’t planning to build its own warehouse network like Amazon. Instead, it will use the collective volume of its sellers -- about 1.5 million packages a day in the U.S. -- to negotiate discounts with logistics partners it declined to name for warehouse space, packing and delivery. The goal is to let EBay merchants store inventory in warehouses around the U.S. so products can be delivered in two or three days at competitive rates. EBay plans to roll out its “Managed Delivery” service in 2020 and will run it on behalf of merchants through its own technology platform.