I don't think I will have much time for frivolity in the near future. Boss has taken on another monkey to work and let him loose on the data/website/Amazon.

He found a wonderful way to upload thousands of products in one go (I TOLD HIM their Sage Data is not 'clean') and now every one of them needs attention. When suppliers send through product lists they use odd titles and I reword them to be buyer friendly so they don't look like equations.

We sell a lot of memorial and tribute stuff for funeral use. A typical example would be

Black Open Book Memorial Pick - Special Wife.

But Matt has now managed to list loads of them with titles like this

Apac Memorial Book Pick - BLACK DAD
Apac Memorial Book Pick - WHITE WIFE
Apac Memorial Book Pick - BLACK GRANDFATHER

I bluddy give up sometimes!

He's also priced them at what we pay suppliers for them! For instance he has all these on at 1.40 each with FREE postage lol! It will cost far more than that just to post them.

I've just sent a very long moaning email to him and my boss.

I sent this Matt Martin's magic XL formula to add the various postages to the prices to arrive at an inclusive FREE postage price but he can't use that coz he 'formulates his data differently'.

So he has taken about 20 minutes to upload a dirty flat file. And had the cheek to then email me asking me if I can 'just tidy them up a bit'. And it gets better - at least a quarter of them are ALREADY on there so we now are in competition with ourselves lol! Original one of the example I gave is about 12 quid and we now have a better deal on the same item for just 1.40!

I am off to bang my head on a wall before hitting the sack with my dawg.