SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- With over 1 billion
listings worldwide, eBay's vision for commerce is one that is
enabled by people, powered by technology, and open to
everyone—creating more economic opportunity for all. eBay continues
to enhance the shopping experience for its sellers and buyers,
including making the platform's massive selection of inventory more
accessible to customers across the globe.
In this newly extended relationship, aeropost.com and eBay are
creating a best-in-class shopping, payment and package delivery
experience for customers in Latin
America and the Caribbean,
allowing them to access tens of millions of eBay.com listings.
Aeropost.com provides transparent, all-inclusive pricing on tens of
millions of products, and can deliver them directly to customers'
doorstep or one of the more than 100 aeropost.com storefront pickup
locations across 40 countries.
"We're thrilled to partner with aeropost.com to bring eBay's
expansive selection of inventory to a broader consumer audience in
Latin America and the Caribbean," said Sylvie De Wever, eBay's General Manager of
Latin America. "The relationship
allows eBay to leverage aeropost.com's leadership in cross-border
logistics to deliver a seamless shopping experience to a relatively
untapped buyer segment."
Nicolas Maslowski, CRO of
aeropost.com, agrees: "We have made our alliance even stronger,
giving Latin Americans the opportunity to buy their favorite eBay
products from the comfort of their country, with clarity and ease
of pricing, using their own local currency, stress-free."
The initial list of countries to take advantage of the
partnership includes the Bahamas,
British Virgin Islands (Tortola),
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Grand
Cayman, Honduras,
Jamaica, Panamá, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent,
Trinidad & Tobago, Turks &
Caicos – with more countries to be added in the near future.
Enhanced Functionality
With this new relationship,
aeropost.com and eBay provide customers in Latin America and the Caribbean a unique cross-border shopping
experience by allowing them to purchase eBay products on
aeropost.com. After finding their perfect item on eBay, customers
then copy the eBay URL into aeropost.com, which calculates an
all-inclusive price that includes the price of the product,
shipping, handling, taxes, and fees all rolled into one. Customers
make just a single payment to aeropost.com. Depending on the
country, aeropost.com offers a variety of financing options using
local currency, such as cash, PayPal, zero interest financing in
installments and credit card points.
Customers can feel rest assured with aeropost.com's Warranty and
Returns program, which covers most transactions. Additionally,
within the customer's aeropost.com account, customers can track the
status of their packages to know when they will arrive at their
destination. With more than 10 million packages processed through
aeropost.com's Miami warehouse,
approximately half fly out the same day they arrive in Miami.
The integration with aeropost.com represents a broader API
initiative that eBay has recently undertaken to make both buying
and selling easier than ever. Late last year, eBay revamped its API
platform with ten new standards-based APIs, with more to come in
2017.
About eBay
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is a global
commerce leader including the Marketplace, StubHub and Classifieds
platforms. Collectively, we connect millions of buyers and sellers
around the world, empowering people and creating opportunity
through Connected Commerce. Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay is one of the world's
largest and most vibrant marketplaces for discovering great value
and unique selection. In 2016, eBay enabled $84 billion of gross merchandise volume. For more
information about the company and its global portfolio of online
brands, visit www.ebayinc.com.
About aeropost.com
aeropost.com, founded in 1986 is
one of the largest cross-border logistics and e-commerce companies
in Latin America and the
Caribbean, present in more than 40
countries. aeropost.com manages a warehouse in Miami that is more than 1700 m2.
Its strategic location lets it be an ideal route for the quick
entrance and exit of products from the U.S. On a daily basis,
aeropost.com transports almost $1M in
product across the region, no matter the shape, size or form, with
a live tracking system and a 100% guarantee and returns policy.
Contacts:
Ryan Moore
eBay
Ryanmoore@ebay.com
Alexandra Kern
Aeropost
akern@aeropost.com
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