At 09:46 PM 11/9/98 PST, you wrote: Well, I disagree... It's perhaps not as important for bidders as it is for sellers, but it is still important. I have had sellers ship stuff right away instead of waiting for my check to clear because I have a decent feedback rating. I do the same when I sell; if the high bidder has decent feedback, I'll ship right away. I don't know that I would bid higher based on feedback, but maybe I bid on different stuff. (I did once not bid seriously because the seller had a feedback of 1, posted by a user from the same domain with a feedback of 0.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/