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...

Thanks! I'll check my emaail. I just got back on the computer after making scalloped potatoes to go with left over ham. For some reason, Yahoo isn't telling me I have new mail. I do have you both on my list, but didn't email either of you. I am trying not to get in trouble with multple emailing of kter's!!! Tami

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I think that in order to receive follow up emails to your posts, you need to do 2 things. 1. Check "Check here if you would like copies of follow-ups to your message emailed to you." when you post the message AND 2. On your personal preferences page, check "Allow other users to send you email via forms at our site." I'm not 100% sure, but it seems to me that every time I have unchecked this box on my personal preferences page, I have stopped getting copies of follow-ups to my posts. Can anyone else confirm this?