I've been an EBAY member since 1999. In 2004 I decided to sent up a PayPal account and create a new screen name. Unfortunately I also clicked the "save your password" icon and someone in my household bid on a $1.00 comic book, won, and never paid. A couple months and a negitive feedback later, I signed on to Ebay and discovered this. There was nothing I could do about it by then. Four years and 46 positive feedbacks later, I still have a "DEADBEAT" feedback score. In these four years I have been slightly burned by a couple of sellers, by no fault but my own . . . I took the loss and left a positive feedback. I've refunded a buyers money who didn't have a legtimate complaint. I've plowed along as an honest, fair, and reasonable member with no rewards. I'm not going to sell anything on Ebay anymore. I never get the bids or money members with 100% are getting for the same items. And I think a big part of the feedback scoring system is a way to get people like me to buy buy buy... in hopes of raising that score. Trust me; it doesn't work!!!