If that's the case, you might want to use the conversation forum so your request will hang closer to the top longer.

I don't believe you can leave random feedback on a seller (or buyer), you have to have purchased (or sold) something. Now I suppose I could sell stuff to my friends or create fictitious accounts and write the feedback myself. Of course, you'd be paying eBay a fee for everyone one of those transactions and I have to believe that their security folks might watch for that kind of stuff. I haven't bought or sold much on eBay but what I have has been a positive experience. A few years back I was doing some Internet work for a used car dealer. A customer had mentioned that they had seen the vehicle on eBay. News to us since we didn't use eBay at the time but sure enough someone had "borrowed" the pictures and description of the vehicle from the dealership's website and actually SOLD the vehicle on eBay. I frantically tried to find a customer service phone number for eBay so that they could contact the buyer before he sent any money. Unfortunately, eBay doesn't seem to have a phone number. I sent off an email and then tried to inquire what had happened but eBay would only tell me that the matter was under investigation. The interesting part is that the vehicle was reasonably worth about $16,000 but it had sold on eBay for $9,000. When something seems to good to be true...

I only use Mail Merge every three months, and I have to read the instructions every time. Here are the ones I use. 1. Open Microsoft Word 97. Note: Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002 (XP) both have the "Mail Merge Wizard" menu item, but it is set up a bit differently than in 97. See the next set of steps (Word 2002) below for the XP directions. 2. Go to Toolsail Merge 3. Click the "Create" button. 4. Click "Mailing Labels" 5. Click "Active Window" 6. Click the "Get Data" button. 7. Click Open Data Source. 8. Next to "Files of Type" at the bottom, click the drop-down arrow and change the file type to "MS Excel Worksheets". 9. Locate the address table or spreadsheet that you already created (see picture above for an example). 10. After you locate it on your computer, double-click your Excel file. 11. "Entire Spreadsheet" will be highlighted. Click OK. 12. Click the "Set Up Main Document" button. 13. Choose the product number of the address labels you will be printing to. This can be easily found on front of the box your labels came in (example: 8160  Address labels). Then, click OK. 14. Insert the sheets of address labels from your box. Insert them into the printer face down and with the top of the sheets facing toward the inside of the printer. 15. Click the "Insert Merge Field" button. Repeat for each new line. At any time if you want to Edit the addresses, click the Edit button. 16. Hit the space bar to put spaces between 1st name and last name, city, state and zip code. Press the Enter key on your keyboard to begin a new line (example: Press the Enter key to start a new line for Address and another new line for City). 17. Important: If you followed the pictured example at the top of this page (the recommended column headings of First Name, Last Name, Address, City, State, Zip), when you click the "Insert Merge Field" button, the correct heading should already be listed. Simply click the correct heading and it will be automatically inserted into the label. 18. Click OK. 19. Click "Merge". 20. Click "Merge" again. *Highlight all labels and click the Center button to center the labels. 21. Go to Fileà Print to print the labels. Word 2002 (XP) Mail Merge Wizard Directions 1. In Microsoft Word 2002 (XP version), once you've created an Excel table or spreadsheet, go into Word and choose Toolsà Letters & Mailingsà Mail Merge Wizard. *Make sure that "Show Mail Merge Toolbar" is also checked. 2. The Task Pane at the right side of the screen comes up. Where it says "Select Document type" choose Labels. At the bottom, click the right arrow ("Next: Starting document"). Click on the blue "Label Options" link. Pick the correct style or number for your lables (example: 5160-Address). Then, click OK. 3. At the bottom, choose "Next: Select recipients." Then, click Browse, and locate the Excel table that you want to pull names & addresses from. For "Files of type," scroll down & choose Excel files (if your database was created in Excel) and find the correct document on your computer & click Open (or just double-click the file name). The Mail Merge Recipients list pops up. You can check or uncheck the names that you want to include in your Labels. Then, click OK. 4. Click Next: Arrange your labels. Go up to your Mail Merge Toolbar and click on the "Insert Merge Fields" button. (See toolbar in picture below) 5. The "Insert Merge Field" box pops up. Make sure there is a dot next to "Database Fields." Then, double-click on each database field you want to include in your labels (example: Last Name, First Name, City, State, Zip). If you double-click, there is no need to click the "Insert" button. When all the needed fields have been inserted, click the "Close" button. 6. Simply click your mouse cursor in between the double-arrow brackets and press the space bar to create spaces between the name, address, city, state, Zip code, etc (see picture below). Once you get the first label set up the way you want, click the "Update All Labels" button (see picture above). Then, click "Next: Preview your labels." 7. To view your merged data and see what will appear on your mailing labels, go up to your Mail Merge toolbar again and click the "View Merged Data button". ItÂs the button that says > (see picture below) 8. Click Next: Complete the merge. You should see the merged data. If you lose the actual names and only see something like in the picture above, go back and click the > "View Merged Data" button again. It will bring up the names in your mailing labels again. 9. To Print all of your labels, on Step 6 of 6 in the Mail Merge Wizard, you should see a blue text link to the right under Merge that says "Print." (see picture below). Click "Print." The "Merge to Printer" box pops up. Simply choose which option youÂd like, such as "Print records: All, current record, or from a particular record to a particular record. 10. Last, a great tip when using Word 2002's Mail Merge is to activate the Mail Merge Toolbar. To do this, right-click on your main toolbar at the top and select "Mail Merge." This toolbar allows you to bring up each of the Mail Merge features with a single-click button. After you save a particular Mail Merge document in Word, the next time you open it, you no longer need to use the Wizard. In fact, you can close the Task Pane at any time by clicking its X in the top right corner. Just use the Mail Merge Toolbar from then on.

Vernake, huh? The one that rhymes with "snake"? Oh, no - that's the ones that were in the part of the big banks that assembled those stinky mortgages to pawn off on various unsuspecting investment agencies and people. Should have been forced to return their bonuses, at least, maybe 3/4 or their salary ... or no bail-out. As for that kind of mail ... I've had scores of similar type. Including from some widows claiming to be on their deathbeds with lousy in-laws who want to waylay their inheritance ... ... that they want to send me, to promise that I'll give most of it to charities, widows, orphans, etc. I haven't yet replied to suggest that they just give the money to a reputable charitable agency in their own land. One artist guy the other day wanted me to collect money from his customers here, as it was difficult to have them send it to him, then forward it to him. I wrote to offer the sugestion that he open a Canadian bank account and just have his cutomers transfer the money, then they can send it to him. He wrote right back, saying that he couldn't open a Canadian bank account ... and could I collect for him? I think that I'll write him to suggest that I want no part of money laundering. I did get an email the other day from a guy with a pipeline to the Ghadaffi system in Libya, asking that I receive some money from them, that I can use for five years or something like that, then return it. I've been thinking of writing to the Syrian embassy in Ottawa, asking the recipient if they aren't proud to be associated with the government of Syria, at this juncture? Our government just declared their Embassy closed, froze their bank accounts and gave their staff five days to get out of the country. After which one of their members asked to be accepted as a refugee. ole joyful