Sorry Jabbergah, there is no AS counter!
I simply took off an approximate number for the bids I placed manually before I found AS, from my eBay total of feedbacks left. My assumption is that barring about five people I have not given feedback to (cowardice!) my feedback left total is fairly accurate. As I use AS, 100% of the time, the estimate was easy!
How about that for confidence in a product? I sleep soundly now, knowing that the hamsters that power the treadmill on the AS server are doing their job well!