Agreed. There was zero incentive for any seller to actually give them - they were totally paid by the seller, with no matching or subsidizing by eBay themselves. And I don't think that eBay did enough to promote the program to the point where very many people actually would want to seek out auctions where the seller offered Anything Points, which made it even less likely for the seller to offer them to a buyer.

They worked for FTers (and others, I'm sure) because of their ability to be earned outside of the venue. And even though they have a great value to people through favorable exchanges via points.com, I think that the program failed to meet its stated objective - to encourage people to use eBay to buy and sell their wares - from the very beginning.

Mike