eBay tools

A Magento to eBay Extension

So, Magento to eBay extension. Now it’s a reality… I bet Magento users will be interested in this! eBay has been a great platform for us, and so is Magento. Bringing them closer together is an interesting strategy, and for some of our websites, a Magento to eBay Extension would be great. Being long time [...]


Automate Australia Post Click and Send International labels

Australia Post has just released Click and Send, and new way to print out international labels and customs declaration forms. Previously international shipments were a real pain because of the handwritten customs forms and separate labels that needed to be printed. Now at least Click and Send can print these forms for you (see their [...]


Shipping Automation and our solution – ReadytoShip

Early on, ‘back in the old days’, our staff manually copied and pasted addresses for customer orders into shipping software packages or (*gasp*) hand wrote labels. This was all fine and dandy until we started selling more than about 5 – 10 items per day. Firstly, shipping started to take too much time in our [...]


eBay Australia to Allow Feedback Revision

eBay has announced a new feedback revision process to launch in the week commencing 13th October. This has been sorely needed since they banned feedback removal a while ago, especially when there had only been some miscommunication with a customer for example, and the seller was able to provide them a satisfactory sale at the [...]


PeSA Australia Summit Wrap-up

Back on deck at work this morning, following up a few people that I met at the Pesa Summit over the last few days. It was great to meet some readers of my blog, and talk to a lot of sellers. After my panel session on Business Automation my 15 min one on one blocks [...]


PeSA Australia Summit Day 1

I just got home from the PeSA Australia summit, Navigating Success for Change. A good turnout with close to 300 signups,s to the Flemington staff were kept busy with coffee and snacks during breaks. Keynote this morning was from Jonathan Garriss (of Gotham City Online) who has flown in from the US and talked about [...]


My Best Tips For Improving Your eBay DSRs

If you are an eBay seller, Detailed Seller Ratings are going to become pretty important very soon. eBay are introducing a raft of changes under new leadership including Finding changes (search), fee changes and more. Detailed Seller Ratings are going to matter to you. If you haven’t been concerned about your ratings, and you take [...]


DSRWatch : View Detailed Seller Ratings, In Detail!

Detailed Seller Ratings were brought in by eBay some time ago now to allow buyers to rate sellers in more detail. These ratings are a vote out of 5 on the following topics: Item as described Communication Shipping time Shipping/Handling Charges Now, ChannelAdvisor Labs have released a free tool called DSRWatch for you to look [...]


Do your product photos need ‘Bling!’?

Tamebay.com in conjunction with Bling! It are running a great little competition together. Bling! It is a neat little image editor to help you get much more professional product photos for your online ads or eBay listings. If you are eBay seller you know how important good product shots are. Taking a great product photo [...]


How do I stop all these customer emails!?

How to reduce customer service emails for eBay and eCommerce business, and how to improve email customer service.