this has nothing to do with John P or his tactics, but more with regards to your comment about leaving negative feedback. Like you, I have not received a negative feedback from buyers or sellers. Unlike you, though, I have left two negative feedbacks in instances where the buyers for these two auctions never contacted me and after a month of waiting (that included numerous attempts to contact each buyer), I decided to leave each a "neg". I am one of those that believes that, all things considered, the feedback system is an effective way to convey to other possible buyers/sellers how this particular transaction went. Would you have left a neg after a month of no contact?? Steve B