- November 7, 2023
The holidays are fast approaching, and gifts are on everyone’s minds. With so many shopping apps available, it can be overwhelming to pick one to browse. Fortunately, PYMNTS has you ...
- October 16, 2023
This month in PYMNTS’ Provider Rankings of Shopping Apps we see Walmart climbing to the top, giving Shein something to fight for. We also see double ties in our lower half but ...
- September 12, 2023
The PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps showcases the top-performing apps transforming the shopping experience.
This month, there are four ties, and Shein finds itself back in first place.
The Top 5
Shein ...
- August 14, 2023
Back to school looms, and shopping — for now, at least — revolves around backpacks, Chromebooks, fall fashion, sneakers and, possibly, stocking up on dorm room snacks.
And for the key ...
- May 31, 2023
You may have clicked this link looking for radical changes of position in PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps. Sorry to disappoint, but this is not the month for rank changes.
In ...
- May 8, 2023
Been shopping lately? It’s pricey out there. The wise shopper is prepared, and the PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps indicates how those wise shoppers save.
Putting our money where our ...
- March 20, 2023
What’s better than a shopping app? Air. Maybe. See if you don’t agree after perusing this month’s latest listings to see who’s got the mobile shopping mojo.
The Top 5
Still at ...
- December 8, 2022
In the latest Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps, we find three ties among 13 different retailers, including a neck-and-neck race to claim the top spot and some churn at the bottom ...
- May 19, 2022
Inflation, schmiflation. People purchase the things they need and want regardless of macroeconomic headwinds and anything else that gets between us and our stuff.
Witness the latest PYMNTS Provider Ranking of ...
- June 28, 2021
OfferUp, like a lot of businesses, started out as an attempt to solve the problem of its founder, Nick Huzar; namely a room full of stuff in his house that ...
- May 13, 2021
As battles royale go, the retail wrestling match between Amazon and Walmart is getting brutal.
We track it attentively in our Whole Paycheck series, a recent edition of which reported on ...
- August 31, 2020
Recommerce marketplace OfferUp has integrated with similar app letgo and will combine its app with the letgo app for a new marketplace promising an increased amount of deals and more access ...
- May 13, 2020
Whether it’s called “certified pre-owned” or just plain “used,” reCommerce has never been hotter. Online marketplaces are well-situated for a COVID-triggered digital shift, personified by millions of the newly unemployed ...
- May 12, 2020
In Toronto, a new service called DMS ShopHERE, powered by the Schulich School of Business, aims to help small companies and artists move their businesses online.
The initiative will provide small to ...
- May 12, 2020
As they gear up to restart their economies amid the pandemic, states from New York to Massachusetts are planning phased reopenings.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that three regions of ...
- May 12, 2020
Roman philosopher Gaius Plinius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Elder, famously said “Home is where the heart is” somewhere around the year 45 AD — thus coining an aphorism ...
- May 11, 2020
Recommerce has been on the rise for the better part of a decade now, and it seems countless marketplaces have sprung up to offer consumers a host of inroads to ...
- March 25, 2020
OfferUp has been winning recently, closing out a $120 million funding round and acquiring its top competitor, letgo, according to a blog post on the company’s website.
The funding round ended ...
- November 4, 2019
Amazon has struggled with preventing counterfeit goods from infiltrating its marketplace. In the company’s ongoing efforts to prevent fraud on its site, Amazon announced a new program, Intellectual Property Accelerator, last month ...
- November 1, 2019
It’s the end of the workweek and the beginning of a new month. And the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything — and that you ...
- October 31, 2019
The thrill of the hunt — and chance to snag a good deal — is what drives millennials to local marketplaces. In this month’s Digital Fraud Tracker, Nathan Garnett, general ...
- October 30, 2019
In today’s payments news, Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are backing a ballot initiative to exempt themselves from California’s landmark law that re-classifies gig workers as employees. Also, a study by Adobe Analytics found that the upcoming holiday shopping season is expected ...
- October 30, 2019
Online tools are saving customers time on acquiring goods and services. Unfortunately, these tools are also saving time for fraudsters, who are seeking to acquire those customers’ funds. Shoppers can ...
- July 18, 2019
OfferUp is a local mobile marketplace competing with businesses like eBay, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace.
The firm received $130 million in financing in 2016, taking the complete financing of the business ...
- June 12, 2019
To bring their merchandise in front of millions of shoppers through eCommerce, several Goodwill regions are teaming with mobile marketplace OfferUp. More than 100 Goodwill store locations ranging from New ...
- December 3, 2018
Digital marketplaces have become beloved by buyers and sellers — and fraudsters. Nick Huzar, CEO of OfferUp, says most current authentication standards are either too lax — sacrificing security for ...
- November 30, 2018
The world is constantly getting faster. As a result, the speed of commerce and payments is coming closer to real time. This increased focus on speed is creating a wide ...
- May 4, 2018
Buying secondhand sports gear isn’t as easy as it sounds. Neither is selling the kids’ old hockey skates or baseball bats. It may seem like perfect material for eBay, Craigslist, ...
- May 1, 2018
Enabling its sellers to reach buyers beyond their neighborhoods, mobile marketplace offer up is now allowing sellers to offer items to people throughout the U.S. The expansion could allow sellers ...
- December 8, 2017
OfferUp: the mobile app that connects local buyers and sellers, helping regular people get rid of their extra belongings.
It’s also the mobile app that, unfortunately, can lead would-be buyers straight ...
- August 31, 2017
Everyone has problems, and an awful lot of people are good at solving them. What separates entrepreneurs from the rest, though, is often their desire to solve a problem not ...
- October 5, 2016
Facebook this week had it’s own version of “Cyber Monday.” Introducing the Facebook Marketplace on the mobile app in the morning, by sundown, the company was issuing apologies.
Marketplace was ...
- October 23, 2015
Consider it the invisible unicorn.
Despite having been around for four years, the online marketplace startup OfferUp is reportedly on the verge of reaching unicorn status — reaching a valuation of ...