Have you created a live.com cashback account? To start from the very beginning, go to live.com. In the upper right of the search screen that pulls up is a blue bar. One item on that bar says cashback. The next screen shows some items you can buy in stores. There is a big green Your Cashback Account towards the upper right. Click on that. The next screen on the left says New to Cashback? Under that click on sign up for a Windows Live ID. Follow those instructions, click I accept and create an account. Then once you have a Windows Live ID, you sign in and create the cashback account. Once you create the cashback account (name and mailing address) you will get an email that you have to click on to activate. Once this is done, now you are ready to shop...

Next step:

Go to live.com. It pulls up a screen with a picture on it, and right in the middle is a white search bar. In that white search bar type silver strikes, and then click on the green magnifying glass.

That then takes you to a screen that looks exactly like a regular search does. The very top ad you see says Silver Strikes in blue, then ebay in green, then there is a little gold circle with a dollar sign in it. Next to the gold circle it says Live Search cashback in blue. Click on the Live Search cashback line, and it takes you to eBay and there are over 1200 items. Once you are in eBay, you can navigate as you normally would. You can go to a favorite seller, you can go anywhere, and for the next 60 minutes, everything with a buy it now price will be eligible. You go to what you want to buy, and click on the auction. You buy it, pay with PayPal, and then you will get an email from eBay in your messages inbox that you have to click a link in to get the cash back. Within a few minutes the cashback will appear in your cashback account and you will get an email from Microsoft confirming it.

Remember, only $200 max discount on a transaction. Only 12 TOTAL transactions on eBay then you're done.

Dave.