eBay Marketing FAQ System - Seller won't fall for it!

I received the latest marketing newsletter from eBay and appreciate some of the efforts made by eBay in terms of giving the site a facelist. However, eBay is still up to their tricks as to trying to squeeze more money out of unsavy sellers.  The biggest gimmiuck is the FAQ system and trying to get us sellers to have a third party application handle the FAQ questions via a database running on SQL - Standard Query Language. It makes me mad that we can't even do are own system for free as to displaying the questions people ask most frequently. 

Before you cry, give in, or say I'm quitting eBay - there's a few ways as to doing an FAQ system and not giving someone $19.95 a month on top of the eBay fees.

How Do I have such a system?

Answer 1:

Get your own website and just test the waters as to linking back to it?  Ixwebhosting.com has an FAQ page template and the website service is under $10 a month for a business plan. Compare this to eBay's obvious partnership at $19.95 and one is already saving.  Only difference is one isn't typing a question in and waitting for a search engine to return a result. To see how my system is currently configured - use the ask seller a question and I'll give you the link.

Answer 2:

Just make a table in HTML format if your computer savy and paste it to the listing.  Then modify the first listing for each new auction or store item you sell.

Final Thoughts:

There's nothing wrong with eBay trying to make more money, but why fall for more marketing gimicks and this so, called we care about you marketing tactic. More sites are springing up and this is the real reason why all of us sellers got this 30% discount off fees when free shipping was offered.  It worked, but did create some problems.  us sellers should have the right to specify how free shipping works for are businesses and not have to be put in awakward position as to answering questions on free shipping when one wins multiple items with certain merchandise that was sold not offering free shipping.  Now, if we don't have an FAQ system will be addressing more questions.  With the economy none of us really wants to spend more money! Lastly, unethical sellers pull games to make up for these costs and pass it on thru shipping. So, whoose to say a person buying into the FAQ gimmick won't be pulling this game.