Sorry Steve, I rarely ever look at this board anymore because I have found another board that interests me more since I mainly deal with comic books.
About the negative feedback...ebay will remove it these cases only:
"Circumstances where eBay will consider removing feedback
eBay is provided with a ruling or settlement agreement from an eBay-approved certified dispute resolution service. Such a ruling may be issued if the feedback recipient initiated a dispute resolution process and the member who left the feedback does not respond to the request for mediation.
eBay is provided with a valid court order finding that the disputed feedback is slanderous, libelous, defamatory or otherwise illegal, or with a settlement agreement resolving such a lawsuit submitted by both attorneys and signed by both parties.
The feedback, on its face, has absolutely no connection with eBay, such as feedback related to commercial transactions that were not conducted through eBay. This also includes feedback that contains any reference to another auction service or feedback that advertises the goods or services of someone other than the user for whom the feedback was left.
The feedback contains any link to another page, picture, or JavaScript.
The feedback contains profane or vulgar language, or adult material. Inflammatory language, such as "fraud, liar, cheater, scam artist, con man" etc. is strongly discouraged but will not be removed.
Feedback that contains personal identifying information about another user, including real name, address, phone number, or e-mail address.
Feedback that makes any reference to an eBay or law enforcement organization investigation, i.e., "eBay is investigating this person".
Negative feedback intended for another user will be considered for removal only in situations where the user responsible for the mistaken posting informs eBay of the error and has already placed the same feedback for the correct user. This does not apply to a comment that was mistakenly marked negative instead of positive or vice versa.
Feedback left by a user who provided eBay with false contact information during the transaction period (as verified by eBay), and cannot be contacted.
Participating in an eBay transaction with the intent of leaving feedback as part of a campaign to harass one or more members.
eBay may give special consideration to remove feedback upon request from members if the listing ended before the member was suspended, but the feedback was left after we reinstated the member."