Hi mazdacar47, Firstly you are never *required* to FE. Some vendors may have a policy that you will have to FE if you choose to order from them, and once they reach 30+ sales and have been vending for 1 month or more they are entitled to do this, but you are not required to FE under any circumstances. If you place an order with a vendor that asks for FE (when entitled to do so) as part of their store policy then they will likely cancel your order. Always read a vendor's page in full before attempting to do business with them. I would recommend always going with a vendor that does not require FE as once you go outside of escrow you have no comeback in the event that the product does not arrive. As far as tracking goes, a vendor is not permitted to keep addresses after the order has been sent (and indeed an address is automatically deleted once a vendor marks an order 'in transit'), however they are allowed to retain DCN and tracking numbers to assist with any potential resolution that may be entered into. If there is a dispute then the seller is entitled to provide those numbers to the administrator dealing with the resolution. Libertas