The loss of wildcards just shows the ignorance/stupidity/out of touch attitudes of the people who made these decisions... and their supervisors/management. And along those lines, my favorite (unfortunately true) saying about eBay is I've never seen a company work so hard to destroy the community that built it. The only people who I've heard complain about the loss of wildcards are those people who know what they are and how to use them. Those that don't complain fall under the people in my first statement classification :). I am constantly amazed by the prices some people ask for their goods including vintagecomputermeuseum... and get them. I did some research using TeraPeak on selected sellers, and realized the amount of money they were making. Eye opening would be a good description. BTW, top posting is only for people who haven't lost their memory... yet :). Don't forget "vintagecomputermuseum" and "newsgroups". g. --