Entries by Matthew Ogborne

Q&A: Gaining the Blue Buy Box for a New Amazon Account

Over the next few articles, I’m going to answer several questions that have come in via email in the past few days, that I feel that you’d gain value from hearing the answer too.   Today’s question is in relation to scoring the Amazon Buy Box for the first time in a new Amazon account. […]

Report a Buyer Now Live on eBay UK

In the eBay Autumn updates which we covered in-depth here, one of the sellers favourites was the ability to be able to report a buyer for naughty behaviour. This is now live on eBay, YAY!   In the video below from eBay, James Stewart, Director of EU Seller Protection explains the reasoning behind this being included […]

The New eBay & What It Means for You (Podcast & Video)

You can’t of missed it, eBay has a new logo, but what they have released in the USA goes deeper, far deeper than just a logo change, the way that buyers interact with eBay is fundamentally changing. In this Podcast & accompanying video we give you the inside track on what the new updates are and how they’re going […]

Are Multiple eBay ID’s Still a Viable Strategery on eBay?

So is using multiple eBay ID’s still a strategery that is viable on eBay? That’s the question M65 put to me in the forums, the answers are simple, but where it leads, no-one has gone there yet and I explore this with you. Pull up the chair, grab a cuppa and let’s investigate this further. […]

Amazon UK Release Seller Ratings – You’re Being Scored

Amazon UK is rolling out a new “Seller Ratings” that scores you bonus points for being good and slaps you hard for being bad. At the time of writing, I’ve not seen this published elsewhere. I’ve also given the link to the dashboard to numerous people and it appears this is on a controlled roll out. It may […]

Podcast 003 – The 101 of eBay Variations + 7 Tips

They weld themselves to the top of eBay search results and now that eBay’s paid promotion tool for “Featured First” is going, using variations on eBay has never been so important. In this Podcast with myself Matt (waves) and Dave Furness, we discuss eBay variations and why you should be using them, the benefits and the downsides and give […]

A Good Problem. We’re Moving!

Ola! There are bad problems and there are good problems, I always prefer the latter and I’ve got an excellent one. This is one of those amazing posts that I only dreamt about all that time ago when the LastDropofInk was first started. For the past few weeks the sheer volume of traffic to the site […]

New eBay Logo, Your Thoughts?

The first time I saw the new eBay logo it did it no favours, with shadow and weird background, instead if this is the first time you have seen, look below in awe. I liked the old logo a lot it’s done well, but let’s be honest, it’s old and it’s time has passed. Sooner or […]

5 Things You Could be Missing Out On In eSellerPro

A little over three weeks ago I asked what you were struggling with and the larger topics I’m covering on the Podcasts we’re holding every Friday, but one of the smaller topics that you mentioned was that you’d like to know what you didn’t know for functionality in eSellerPro. The following are relatively easy to set up and can save hundreds of man-hours […]

How to Get Amazon Feedback Removed

Receiving a negative comment regardless if it’s on a marketplace or not is not fun, however with this simple to follow guide you can get some of your negative and neutral comments removed. To set clear expectations this is not going to work for all comments that are left, however there is a certain type of […]

The One Box You Shouldn’t “Un-Tick” in eSellerPro

The HTML editor in eSellerPro is a menace. If you use it to edit your description blocks, it’ll add it’s own version of HTML it and if you’re trying to process any form of advanced logic past a simple IF/NOT statement then it’ll eat it for breakfast. Our saviour is the checkbox that is found […]