My total is 236,163 and I've had links on all my listings and my about me page for quite a long time and a year or so ago they used to work fine.
I know for a fact my links work when they are advertised outside of eBid or sent to someone via email but I am convinced my links on my eBid listings don't work any more. I had some help from a very kind person recently with advertising my link off the site but as soon as that stopped so did the buddy points. Just clicking on the link which takes you to the registration page does not neccessarily mean that the point is being attributed to your user name.
This seems to have been happening since the system made the change in my HTML coding. Everytime I try and correct it it jumps back to putting in an extra "amp;". eBid support even corrected it for me several months ago but it just comes back again.
I am sure it's not just me as some of the top sellers on eBid that regularly used to appear at the top of the buddy points list no longer do so dispite having links on all their listings. I know I've had this conversation before but I just can't believe that every single newbie that buys from me that finds eBid via one of my adverts leaves that page to go and register elsewhere on the site. Even with one of my old school friends that joined eBid via the link on my listing to buy one of my items I didn't get a point for.